1-19-22
AN EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD WOMAN AND HER PET CAT ESCAPED A HOUSE FIRE YESTERDAY MORNING. FIREFIGHTERS WERE CALLED TO THE HOME ON ARTHUR STREET JUST AFTER ELEVEN AND WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY FOUND THE WOMAN AND HER CAT SAFELY OUTSIDE. THE WOMAN TOLD FIREFIGHTERS SHE WAS IN THE KITCHEN WHEN SHE HEARD THE SMOKE ALARM AND WENT DOWN THE HALLWAY TO FIND HER BEDROOM ON FIRE. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
NEW IBERIA POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED A SUSPECT IN THE SHOOTING OF TWO WOMEN LATE FRIDAY NIGHT ON MISSISSIPPI STREET. LEROY LENWOOD JUNIOR IS WANTED ON NUMEROUS CHARGES INCLUDING TWO COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. ONE OF THE WOMEN IS STILL IN THE HOSPITAL IN STABLE BUT CRITICAL CONDITION, WHILE THE OTHER WOMAN WAS TREATED AND RELEASED. IF ANYONE KNOWS THE WHEREABOUTS OF LENWOOD, THEY ARE ASKED TO CONTACT IBERIA CRIME STOPPERS AT THREE-SIX-FOUR-TIPS.
LOUISIANA HAS SURPASSED ONE MILLION COVID-NINETEEN CASES SINCE THE PANDEMIC BEGAN. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS STILL TRYING TO IDENTIFY A SUSPECT IN AN EARLY MORNING SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED IN ELTON. CHIEF DEPUTY CHRIS IVEY SAYS A WOMAN WAS RETURNING TO HER HOME ON SECOND STREET JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT WHEN SHE WAS SHOT TWICE. THE WOMAN AND A WITNESS SAID IT WAS TOO DARK TO IDENTIFY THE SHOOTER, WHO FLED THE SCENE. IVEY SAYS THEY ARE HOPING SOMEONE MAY HAVE SEEN SOMETHING AS THE SHOOTER FLED THE AREA.
LAFAYETTE POLICE SEIZED AN ESTIMATED ONE-POINT-THREE MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF CRYSTAL METH AND COCAINE. IT HAPPENED WHILE THE NARCOTICS DIVISION WAS CONDUCTING AN INVESTIGATION OF LARGE-SCALE DRUG DEALERS, WHO WERE TRANSPORTING DRUGS INTO THE LAFAYETTE AREA. THEY RECOVERED APPROXIMATELY THIRTEEN POUNDS OF CRYSTAL METH AND TWO POUNDS OF COCAINE. THERE ARE NO SUSPECTS AT THIS TIME AND POLICE CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE.
A GRUESOME DISCOVERY LED TO A SAINT MARTINVILLE MAN FACING MURDER CHARGES. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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A candidate for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana has posted a video campaign ad that shows him smoking marijuana while decrying racial disparities in arrests for the drug. The 37-second ad shows Democrat Gary Chambers sitting in a chair in an empty field and puffing what appears to be a marijuana blunt. In a voiceover, he cites statistics about the number of people and the amount of money spent enforcing marijuana laws. Chambers is one of two Democrats who’ve announced campaigns to unseat Republican incumbent Sen. John Kennedy.
RAYNE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING MULTIPLE VEHICLE BURGLARIES THAT HAPPENED DECEMBER TWELFTH IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CITY. MULTIPLE SUSPECTS ENTERED CARS THAT WERE UNLOCKED AND SOME OF THE ITEMS STOLEN INCLUDED FIREARMS AND WALLETS. ONE OF THE SUSPECTS SEEN IN A PHOTO IS DESCRIBED AS HAVING A THIN BUILD AND WAS WEARING GLASSES, A HOODED SWEATSHIRT AND JEANS. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS URGED TO CALL SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE-TIPS, WHERE UP TO A THOUSAND DOLLAR CASH REWARD IS BEING OFFERED FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO AN ARREST.
