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AN ACADIA PARISH PRIEST HAS BEEN ARRESTED ON THREE COUNTS OF INDECENT BEHAVIOR WITH A JUVENILE. FATHER KOREY LAVERGNE, WHO IS THIRTY-SEVEN-YEARS-OLD, IS THE PASTOR AT SAINT EDWARD CATHOLIC CHURCH IN RICHARD. HE HAS BONDED OUT OF THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL. THE DIOCESE ISSUED A STATEMENT SAYING THEY WILL CONTINUE TO ASSIST LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND THEY CALLED FOR PRAYERS FOR THOSE INVOLVED.
STATE POLICE ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE IDENTITY OF A PEDESTRIAN WHO WAS STRUCK AND KILLED BY A CAR IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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A SULPHUR MAN IS IN CUSTODY AFTER SHOOTING AND WOUNDING A MAN EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THE VICTIM WAS IN HIS VEHICLE ON CHRISTY LANE WHEN SEVENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD LARRY HARDY BEGAN SHOOTING AT HIM. WHEN CALCASIEU PARISH DEPUTIES ATTEMPTED TO ARREST HARDY, HE BARRICADED HIMSELF INSIDE HIS RESIDENCE AND, AT ONE POINT, REPORTEDLY FIRED A SHOT AT THE DEPUTIES. HE WAS EVENTUALLY DETAINED WITH THE HELP OF THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE’S K-NINE UNIT.
PRESIDENT TRUMP URGED LOUISIANA CONGRESSWOMAN JULIA LETLOW TO RUN FOR THE U-S SENATE THIS YEAR. HE SAID ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT SHE WOULD HAVE HIS ENDORSEMENT IF SHE DID. LETLOW THANKED TRUMP FOR HIS ENDORSEMENT BUT GAVE NO INDICATION IF SHE WAS CONSIDERING A RUN. SENATOR BILL CASSSIDY, WHO IS RUNNING FOR REELECTION, SAID IN RESPONSE THAT, IF LETLOW DECIDES TO RUN, HE IS CONFIDENT HE WOULD WIN.
THE UTILITY BILLING COORDINATOR FOR THE CITY OF RAYNE WAS ARRESTED FRIDAY ON SUSPICION OF THEFT AND RECORDS MANIPULATION. TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD DYLAN KANE MENARD IS ACCUSED OF MANIPULATING METER READINGS WITHIN THE CITY’S BILLING SYSTEM BETWEEN MAY OF TWENTY-TWENTY-TWO AND THIS MONTH, JANUARY TWENTY-TWENTY-SIX. MENARD IS ACCUSED OF MISAPPROPRIATING MORE THAN THIRTY THOUSAND KILOWATT HOURS OF ELECTRICITY AND TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND GALLONS OF WATER AND SEWAGE ON HIS ACCOUNT. HE FACES CHARGES OF MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE, INJURING PUBLIC RECORDS AND THEFT OF BETWEEN A THOUSAND AND FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
AN ABANDONED HOME IN SCOTT WAS TOTALLY DESTROYED BY FIRE. THE SCOTT FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED TO THE HOUSE FIRE IN THE SIXTY-EIGHT-HUNDRED BLOCK OF CAMERON STREET AT AROUND NINE SATURDAY NIGHT. IT TOOK THEM ABOUT THIRTY MINUTES TO BRING IT UNDER CONTROL. THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE MADE IT DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE THE EXACT CAUSE OF THE FIRE BUT AUTHORITIES BELIEVE IT MAY HAVE BEEN STARTED BY A HOMELESS PERSON TRYING TO WARM UP IN THE COLD.
THE EVANGELINE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS ARRESTED TWO MEN IN CONNECTION TO A DECEMBER ELEVENTH TRAFFIC STOP. ILLEGAL DRUGS WERE FOUND IN THE CHEVY TAHOE THAT WAS PULLED OVER. THE TWO MEN IN THE VEHICLE, MARCUS DEWAYNE ROBERTS AND DAMIAN DUPLECHAIN, BOTH FOURTY-FOUR-YEARS-OLD, WERE ARRESTED. THEY FACE CHARGES OF POSSESSION WITH THE INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE METH, COCAINE, CRACK COCAINE AND MARIJUANA.
THERE WAS A FIVE VEHICLE CRASH ON I-TWO-TEN IN LAKE CHARLES SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LAKE CHARLES POLICE SPOKESMAN SERGEANT JOHN RUSSELL SAYS THAT, FOR REASONS NOT KNOWN, A WESTBOUND DRIVER WENT THROUGH THE MEDIAN AND STRUCK ONE VEHICLE BEFORE ROLLING INTO OTHER VEHICLES IN THE EASTBOUND LANES. FOUR PEOPLE WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH MINOR INJURIES. BOTH LANES OF TRAFFIC WERE SHUT DOWN AFTER THE CRASH FOR ABOUT AN HOUR.
