1-8-20
BOTH THE LAFAYETTE CITY AND PARISH COUNCILS AGREED TO SPLIT THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT INTO THREE. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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LAKE CHARLES POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A SUSPECT IN A DECEMBER 28TH SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED IN THE SEVEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF SEVENTEENTH STREET. THIRTY-FOUR YEAR-OLD DAVID P. DENEGALL OF LAKE CHARLES IS WANTED ON CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A PERSON CONVICTED OF CERTAIN FELONIES. HE IS CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON DENEGAL IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE LAKE CHARLES POLICE DEPARTMENT OR DETECTIVE LARRY NEWINGHAM.
THE FORMER MAYOR OF ESTHERWOOD WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY MORNING ON CHARGES OF REVENGE PORN AND RESISTING AN OFFICER. ESTHERWOOD POLICE CHIEF WAYNE WELSH SAYS THAT THEY RECEIVED A COMPLAINT AND INVESTIGATED, BUT WOULD NOT PROVIDE ANY DETAILS. THE CHARGES ARE AGAINST ANTHONY BORILL, WHO WAS MAYOR OF ESTHERWOOD FROM 2011 TO 2018. THE REVENGE PORN CHARGE CARRIES A MAXIMUM TWO YEAR SENTENCE AND/OR A TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR FINE IF CONVICTED.
Louisiana’s Medicaid program started the new year under a cloud of uncertainty, amid a continued dispute over multibillion-dollar contracts to provide health services to 1.5 million people. Deals with five private companies that manage care for most Medicaid patients were slated to expire at the end of December. The administration chose four companies to do the work starting in 2020. But two losing bidders that currently hold Louisiana Medicaid managed care contracts are protesting that decision, a legal process that has stalled the new contract awards.
A witness says a plane that crashed in Lafayette had leveled out its wings before it hit trees and transmission lines and crashed in a fiery heap. A preliminary investigation issued Tuesday by federal investigators did not give a cause for the Dec. 28 plane crash that killed five people on their way to the Peach Bowl in Atlanta. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board have repeatedly said it will take about a year for that determination to be made. But the report did shed new light on some aspects of the crash, including what witnesses told investigators.
A HABITUAL OFFENDER SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON GOT ANOTHER FIFTY YEARS AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO MULTIPLE CHARGES IN LAKE CHARLES. THE CRIMES ARE RELATED TO A 2017 INCIDENT WHEN LAKE CHARLES POLICE ATTEMPTED TO PULL OVER WILL CELESTINE LEADING TO A HIGH SPEED CHASE. CELESTINE CRASHED HIS VEHICLE INTO A RESIDENCE LEAVING BEHIND A ONE-YEAR-OLD IN THE VEHICLE. HE THEN BROKE INTO A RESIDENCE WHERE THE OWNER WAS PRESENT AND HID.
CRIME RATES IN NEW IBERIA ARE DOWN. THE NUMBER OF PROPERTY CRIMES ARE DOWN FIFTY-TWO PERCENT WHILE THE VIOLENT CRIME RATE DROPPED BY FORTY PERCENT IN 2019 COMPARED TO 2018. THE NUMBERS WERE REPORTED AT LAST NIGHT’S CITY COUNCIL MEETING. MAYOR FREDDIE DECOURT SAYS HE BELIEVES THE REDUCED CRIME IS A RESULT OF COMMUNITY POLICING AND THE TRUST THAT’S BEEN EARNED IN THE COMMUNITY.
QUALIFYING FOR AN ELECTION TO SELECT MEMBERS FOR THE REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE IN LOUISIANA HAS BEEN CANCELED BY THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL. THE COURT ISSUED THE INJUNCTION BECAUSE OF A LAWSUIT THAT THEY SAY HAS A LIKELIHOOD OF SUCCESS. THE DECISION REVERSES A DISTRICT COURT’S JUDGEMENT TO DENY THE REQUEST OF AN INJUNCTION. THE LAWSUIT CHALLENGES THE STATE’S STATUTES FOR ELECTING STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES.
