1-23-18
LAFAYETTE POLICE RELEASED SURVEILLANCE VIDEO CONNECTED TO A MURDER ON BELLEAU STREET. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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Government officials and executives of the Entergy utility corporation gathered in southwest Louisiana to break ground for an $872 million natural gas-fired generating station. The governor’s office says the Entergy Louisiana project will employ about 700 people in Calcasieu Parish at the peak of construction. It is expected to create 31 permanent jobs. Entergy says in a Monday news release that the Lake Charles Power Station will lower customer energy costs between $1.3 billion and $2 billion over the plant’s anticipated 30-year life.
THERE WAS A SHOOTING IN RAYNE SHORTLY AFTER 5:30 LAST NIGHT, BUT NOT MANY DETAILS HAVE BEEN RELEASED. IT HAPPENED IN THE 500 BLOCK OF LYMAN AVENUE. TWO VICTIMS WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER SUFFERING MODERATE INJURIES. NO SUSPECTS ARE IN CUSTODY AT THIS TIME.
Republican lawmakers are pushing back against suggestions they need to replace the entire $1 billion in expiring sales taxes to keep from enacting devastating cuts across Louisiana’s budget. The comments came Monday as Gov. John Bel Edwards presented his worst-case scenario budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year to lawmakers. As required, the budget proposal assumes the taxes won’t be replaced. Edwards is proposing to offset the expiring sales taxes with another tax package.
A COURT HEARING WAS HELD YESTERDAY MORNING IN LAFAYETTE FOR IAN HOWARD TO DEAL WITH MOTIONS FROM HIS DEFENSE TEAM. THE 28-YEAR-OLD HOWARD IS THE MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICER CORPORAL MICHAEL MIDDLEBROOK ON OCTOBER FIRST, AND WOUNDING ANOTHER POLICE OFFICER AND TWO OTHER PEOPLE. HE HAS BEEN HELD WITHOUT BOND AT THE ELAYN HUNT CORRECTIONAL CENTER AND HIS ATTORNEY SAID THEY WILL NOT IMMEDIATELY PURSUE A MOTION TO OBTAIN A BOND. NO TRIAL DATE HAS BEEN SET YET AND THE NEXT COURT HEARING WILL TAKE PLACE ON MARCH SIXTH.
FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF A PERSON SHOT TO DEATH IN WELSH EARLY MONDAY. HE IS 25-YEAR-OLD NEHEMIAH GRAY. THE FAMILY MEMBERS TOLD KATC TV THAT THEY FOUND ABOUT THIRTY SHELL CASINGS ON THE GROUND NEAR WHERE GRAY WAS KILLED AND WITNESSES TOLD THEM THEY SAW TWO PEOPLE RUN FROM THE SCENE. THEY SAID GRAY’S NEPHEW WAS KILLED IN THE SAME AREA NEARLY SIX YEARS AGO.
A SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM BY THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS ALREADY HAVING SOME SUCCESSES AFTER IT BEGAN LAST WEDNESDAY. OFF DUTY DEPUTIES ARE STATIONING THEMSELVES INSIDE LOCAL CONVENIENCE STORES AFTER HOURS TO DETER A RECENT SPATE OF SMASH-AND-GRAB BURGLARIES. ON SATURDAY AT THREE A-M, DEPUTIES ARRESTED TWO JUVENILES WHO ALLEGEDLY USED A BRICK TO SMASH A WINDOW AND BREAK-INTO THE FOOD AND FUN CONVENIENCE STORE ON DUPERIER STREET. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS IN A PRESS RELEASE THAT, TO ENHANCE THE PROGRAM, PARENTS OF JUVENILES WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR CHILDREN’S ACTIONS AND THE PARENTS COULD FACE JAIL TIME.
A man released early from prison under a criminal justice reform law in Louisiana is back in prison, despite staying out of trouble and securing a job. It turned out that the release date was calculated incorrectly by state prison officials for Nickolos Marchiafava (mahr-kee-ah-FAH’-vah). A Corrections Department official tells The Advocate that there was no choice — Marchiafava had to return to prison.
Corrections secretary Jimmy LeBlanc says he’ll recommend that Marchiafava serve the rest of his sentence, which ends later this year, in a work-release program.
