1-17-23
THE NEW IBERIA POLICE DEPARTMENT IS INVESTIGATING AFTER A BODY WAS FOUND NEAR AN APARTMENT COMPLEX ON MONDAY. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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AN EIGHTEEN-WHEELER WAS STRUCK BY A TRAIN YESTERDAY MORNING AT THE VEROT SCHOOL CROSSING IN LAFAYETTE, NEAR HIGHWAY NINETY. SERGEANT ROBIN GREEN WITH THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THE CROSSING GUARDS WERE DOWN AND THE EIGHTEEN-WHEELER ATTEMPTED TO GO AROUND THEM BEFORE THE TRAIN REACHED THE CROSSING. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. THE DRIVER OF THE TRUCK, MARQUELL LADARRIEA, WHO WAS DRIVING FOR REINHART TRANSPORTATION, RECEIVED A CITATION FROM THE POLICE.
A RUNAWAY FROM JENNINGS HAS BEEN FOUND. FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD JASMINE SAINT GERMAIN WAS REPORTED TO HAVE RUN AWAY FROM HER HOME ON SATURDAY. THE JENNINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT LOCATED HER WITH THE ASSISTANCE FROM OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. THEY SAY SHE WAS FOUND IN GOOD HEALTH.
OPELOUSAS POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED AT AROUND SEVEN LAST NIGHT IN THE TWO HUNDRED BLOCK OF ELEMENTARY LANE. POLICE SAY A WOMAN WAS SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION. SHE WAS SHOT WHILE SITTING IN A PARKED VEHICLE. THEY HAVE NOT RELEASED ANY MORE INFORMATION AT THIS TIME.
PLANS ARE IN THE WORKS FOR A MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT AT THE SITE OF THE OLD DON’S SEAFOOD’S LOCATION IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE. THE SPACE WILL BE RE-BRANDED AS ASHBY CROSSING IN HONOR OF THE ORIGINAL OWNERS OF DON’S SEAFOOD. E-J KRAMPE OF ASHBY CROSSING CALLS IT A TOP REDEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA. IT WILL HAVE A MIX OF RESIDENTIAL, RETAIL AND FOOD AND KRAMPE SAYS IT WILL BE A GREAT PLACE TO COME.
AN ABBEVILLE MAN WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY AFTER A FIVE HOUR STANDOFF WITH ABBEVILLE POLICE AND VERMILLION PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES. POLICE HAD RECEIVED AN ORDER FOR PROTECTIVE CUSTODY FROM THE VERMILLION PARISH CORONER FOR RODERICK RICE. BUT WHEN THEY WENT TO PICK HIM UP AT LYMAN STREET AND FRANK’S ALLEY, RICE RAN INTO A HOUSE AND TOLD POLICE HE WOULD NOT LEAVE ALIVE. EVENTUALLY HE DID SURRENDER PEACEFULLY AND WAS TAKEN TO THE ABBEVILLE GENERAL HOSPITAL BEHAVIORAL CENTER FOR EVALUATION BEFORE GOING TO THE CORRECTIONAL CENTER, WHERE HE WILL BE HELD ON A PROBATION AND PAROLE WARRANT FROM BATON ROUGE.
THE EIGHTH ANNUAL JUBILEE OF THE WORD BIBLE MARATHON BEGINS TOMORROW AT TWELVE-THIRTY AT THE SAINT MARTINVILLE TOWN SQUARE. THREE HUNDRED READERS FROM ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE CHURCH PARISHES AND THIRTY MISSIONS IN THE DIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE WILL TAKE TURNS READING THE BIBLE IN NINE LANGUAGES. THE MARATHON WILL LAST UNTIL SUNDAY AND THOUSANDS ARE EXPECTED TO COME WITNESS THE BIBLE READING. BISHOP DESHOTEL OF THE DIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE SAYS THE READING IS A REMINDER THAT CHRISTIANS NEED TO SHAKE THE DUST OFF THEIR BIBLES AND BEGIN TO PONDER GOD’S PLAN FOR THEIR LIVES.
A NEW IBERIA MAN WAS KILLED YESTERDAY MORNING AFTER A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH ON LEWIS STREET NEAR HIGHWAY NINETY. LOUISIANA STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING WHY SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD JOHN RODRIGUE DROVE HIS FORD F-ONE-FIFTY PICKUP OFF THE ROADWAY AND INTO A UTILITY POLE. AFTER HITTING THE POLE, THE PICKUP OVERTURNED INTO A DRAINAGE CANAL AND RODRIGUE WAS UNABLE TO EXIT THE VEHICLE. RODRIGUE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE AND A TOXICOLOGY SAMPLE WAS TAKEN AND SUBMITTED FOR ANALYSIS.
