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A WOMAN, WHO ALLEGEDLY SHOT BOTH THE OPELOUSAS POLICE CHIEF AND HIS WIFE ON DECEMBER TWENTY-SECOND, SURRENDERED TO POLICE ON NEW YEAR’S DAY. THE WOMAN, OPELOUSAS POLICE OFFICER SAVANNAH BUTLER, IS ACCUSED OF FIRING A GUN DURING AN ARGUMENT WITH CAPTAIN CRYSTAL LEBLANC AS THE RESULT OF AN ARGUMENT. CRYSTAL’S HUSBAND, POLICE CHIEF GRAIG LEBLANC, ATTEMPTED TO GRAB THE GUN AND WAS SHOT THROUGH THE HAND. THE BULLET ENDED UP IN HIS WIFE’S ARM. BUTLER HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF NEGLIGENT INJURY AND ONE COUNT OF ILLEGAL DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM.
HOMOCIDES IN LAFAYETTE WERE UP THIRTY-TWO PERCENT IN TWENTY-TWENTY-THREE COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS YEAR. THERE WERE A TOTAL OF TWENY NINE HOMOCIDES. CORPORAL KEN HANDY SAYS THE HOMOCIDES WERE A COMBINATION OF BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA, SHOOTINGS AND STABBINGS BY AND LARGE TIED TO DOMESTIC CRIME OR JUVENILE CRIME. A TOTAL OF SEVENTY-ONE HOMOCIDES HAVE BEEN REPORTED FOR THE ACADIANA REGION, INCLUDING ELEVEN IN OPELOUSAS AND SIX IN NEW IBERIA.
TODAY MARKS THE FINAL TIME GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS SPEAKS TO THE PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA. DANIELLE DUNCAN HAS THE DETAILS.
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A LAKE CHARLES MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY KILLING HIS GIRLFRIEND’S SON AND A DOG ON NEW YEAR’S DAY. A WOMAN BEING TREATED FOR SEVERE INJURIES AT A HOSPITAL TOLD AUTHORITIES ABOUT HER BOYFRIEND AND SAID SHE MANAGED TO ESCAPE THE HOME TO SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION. OFFICERS WENT TO HER HOME AND FOUND TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD ERIC BOSLEY OF LAKE CHARLES AND THE DOG DEAD FROM GUNSHOT WOUNDS. THE OFFICERS LOCATED FORTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DERIK K. RAYBORN AT THE HOSPITAL ATTEMPTING TO FIND HIS GIRLFRIEND AND HE WAS ARRESTED ON MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
AN ALLEGED DRUG DEALER WAS ARRESTED DURING A TRAFFIC STOP CONDUCTED BY SAINT MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES. THE DEPUTIES PULLED OVER TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD KIRBY ROSSYION OF BREAUX BRIDGE FOR FAILING TO SIGNAL. THE DEPUTIES FOUND PROBABLE CAUSE TO SEARCH THE VEHICLE AND DISCOVERD MULTIPLE DRUGS, INCLUDING COCAINE, CRACK COCAINE AND CRYSTAL METH, AS WELL AS A HANDGUN. ROSSYION WAS BOOKED INTO THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON MULTIPLE DRUG AND WEAPONS CHARGES.
TODAY LAFAYETTE PARISH WILL SEE A NEW ADMINISTRATION TAKE OFFICE. DANIELLE DUNCAN HAS MORE.
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A NEW WAY TO DETERMINE IF DRIVERS ARE IMPAIRED IS BEING TESTED IN SAINT CHARLES PARISH. MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED VOLUNTARY MOUTH SWABS WERE TAKEN FROM DRIVERS BETWEEN JULY AND SEPTEMBER. NORTH LOUISIANA CRIME LAB SYSTEM DIRECTOR JOEY JONES TELLS THE ADVOCATE THAT THE MOUTH SWAB TESTING PRESENTS A WAY TO SCREEN FOR DRUG IMPAIRMENT THAT CAN BE DONE QUICKER AND THAT IS LESS INVASIVE THAN COLLECTING A BLOOD SAMPLE. HE SAYS HE PLANS TO RECOMMEND TO THE GOVERNOR’S D-W-I TASK FORCE THAT ORAL FLUID TESTING BE ADDED TO THE LIST OF IMPAIRMENT SCREENINGS THAT OFFICERS CAN ADMINISTER WITHOUT A WARRANT.
ACADIA PARISH DEPUTIES ARRESTED A EUNICE MAN FOR ALLEGEDLY SHOOTING AT HIS WIFE ON FRIDAY. DURING A DOMESTIC DISPUTE, THE WIFE ATTEMPTED TO SEPARATE HERSELF FROM HER HUSBAND BY GOING INTO ANOTHER ROOM AND SHUTTING THE DOOR. THE HUSBAND, SEVENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD STEPHEN DISCHLER, IS ACCUSED OF FIRING A SHOT THROUGH THE DOOR, NARROWLY MISSING HIS WIFE. DISCHLER HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND DOMESTIC ABUSE-AGGRAVATED ASSAULT.
