1-6-25
A MISSING PERSONS CASE HAS TURNED INTO A HOMOCIDE INVESTIGATION AFTER THE MISSING PERSON’S BODY WAS FOUND SATURDAY IN A WOODED AREA IN CECILIA. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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LAFAYETTE FIREFIGHTERS BATTLED THREE HOUSE FIRES ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. THE FIRST WAS FRIDAY EVENING AT A HOUSE ON SAINT CATHERINE STREET WHERE THE PATIO CAUGHT FIRE. THE FIRE WAS FOUND TO HAVE ORIGINATED IN A BUCKET USED TO DISPOSE OF CIGARETTES. A VACANT HOME ON LAFAYETTE STREET WAS FULLY ENGULFED IN FLAMES WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED SATURDAY MORNING JUST BEFORE ELEVEN. FIRE INVESTIGATORS ARE TRYING TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE BUT NEIGHBORS SAID TWO HOMELESS PEOPLE HAD BEEN STAYING IN THE STRUCTURE. THE THIRD FIRE WAS AT A MOBILE HOME SATURDAY AFTERNOON ON HEBERT ROAD. FIRE FIGHTERS PUT OUT THE FIRE BEFORE IT REACHED NEIGHBORING MOBILE HOMES BUT NOT BEFORE THE HOME SUFFERED HEAVY FIRE DAMAGE. FIRE OFFICIALS DETERMINED THE BLAZE ORIGINATED IN THE LIVING ROOM, BUT THE CAUSE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
A MOTORCYCLIST WAS KILLED SATURDAY EVENING AFTER CRASHING INTO A TREE. STATE POLICE SAY FORTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD JEROMY FRANCIS AMBROSE WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON L-A ONE-OH-NINE IN BEAUREGARD PARISH. FOR UNKNOWN REASONS, HE FAILED TO NEGOTIATE A CURVE AND WENT OFF THE ROAD INTO THE TREE. AMBROSE, WHO WAS WEARING A NON-APPROVED
D-O-T-D HELMET, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.
GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY HAS ORDERED A DAY OF MOURNING TODAY FOR EACH OF THE BOURBON STREET VICTIMS. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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NEW IBERIA POLICE RECOVERED THREE STOLEN VEHICLES LAST WEEK. THEIR INVESTIGATION LED TO ARREST WARRANTS BEING ISSUED FOR SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD JASE OWENS, WHO IS WANTED ON CHARGES OF THEFT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE AND SIMPLE BURGLARY. POLICE ARE ALSO TRYING TO IDENTIFY A FEMALE WHO WAS ACCOMPANYING OWENS. IN THE THIRD STOLEN VEHICLE WAS AN OCCUPANT WHO WAS FOUND TO BE IN POSSESSION OF SUSPECTED NARCOTICS AND WHO WAS ARRESTED ON MULTIPLE CHARGES, EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD JA’BRYSON ROBERTSON.
THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT OPENED A WARMING CENTER LAST NIGHT AT THE DUPUIS RECREATION CENTER ON EAST PONT DES MOUTON ROAD. THEY ARE WORKING WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO ENSURE THE SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF THOSE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS OR WHO DO NOT HAVE ADEQUATE HEATING. THE WARMING CENTER WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL FRIDAY. TRANSPORTATION WILL BE PROVIDED FROM SAINT JOSEPH DINER.
A LAKE CHARLES MAN WAS ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING A TRAILER AND AN EXCAVATOR FROM IOWA. THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD JUSTIN SITTIG WAS ALSO FOUND TO BE IN POSSESSION OF SUSPECTED ILLEGAL NARCOTICS. SITTIG REPORTEDLY ADMITTED THE THEFTS TO CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES AND TOLD THEM WHERE TO FIND THE EXCAVATOR IN BEAUREGARD PARISH. SITTIG HAD AN ACTIVE WARRANT FROM A CASE LAST YEAR WHEN HE ALLEGEDLY OPENED A CHARGE ACCOUNT IN SOMEONE ELSE’S NAME AND CHARGED OVER TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS TO A LOCAL STORE.
