1-9-22
YOUNGSVILLE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING REPORTS OF A BODY FOUND OVER THE WEEKEND. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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THERE WAS A SHOOTING SATURDAY NIGHT ON PARK AVENUE IN NEW IBERIA. ONE PERSON WAS SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES, ACCORDING TO POLICE SPOKESPERSON DAESHA HUGHES. THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION. NO OTHER DETAILS HAVE BEEN RELEASED.
A WOMAN POSING AS A DOCTOR IN OAKDALE WAS ARRESTED ON FRAUD CHARGES. ERICA GILES OPENED A DERMATOLOGY PRACTICE IN OAKDALE AND POSTED A DIPLOMA FROM NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY STATING SHE WAS A DOCTOR OF DERMATOLOGY. IT WAS LATER DETERMINED THE DIPLOMA WAS FORGED AND THAT NO SUCH PROGRAM AT NORTHWESTERN EXISTED. AFTER INTERVIEWING PATIENTS, IT WAS LEARNED THAT PAYMENTS OF MORE THAN A THOUSAND DOLLARS PER PATIENT WERE MADE AND GILES TREATED MINORS AS WELL.
GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS HAS DECLARED JANUARY AS HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION MONTH IN LOUISIANA. ACCORDING TO THE LATEST STATISTICS IN TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE, THERE WERE NINE HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN LOUISIANA COMMUNITIES. THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION, DANA HUNTER, SAYS HUMAN TRAFFICKERS ARE A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER AND ARE EVERYWHERE. IF YOU SUSPECT THAT YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE MAY BE IN IMMEDIATE DANGER FROM A HUMAN TRAFFICKER, CALL NINE-ONE-ONE.
THE NATIONAL CHAIN DAVE AND BUSTER’S HAS OFFICIALLY PURCHASED PROPERTY WITH PLANS TO BUILD A STORE IN LAFAYETTE. IT WILL BE OPENED IIN THE AMBASSADOR TOWN CENTER ACROSS FROM OUR LADY OF LOURDES WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL. THE COMPANY SPENT OVER THREE MILLION DOLLARS FOR FIVE ACRES, ACCORDING TO THE ADVOCATE. DAVE AND BUSTER’S JOINS JET COFFEE AND JERSEY MIKES IN PLANNING TO OPEN STORES IN THE AMBASSADOR TOWN CENTER.
THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH SCHOOL BOARD HAS PUT TOGETHER SIX PROPOSED STUDENT ASSIGNMENT PLANS, WITH HOPES THEY WILL SATISFY THE COURTS AND END A DESEGREGATION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE DISTRICT. A COURT RULING IN JUNE OF TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE FOUND THE DISTRICT HAD FAILED TO REACH DESEGREGATION GOALS IN MULTIPLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. THEY INCLUDED CATAHOULA ELEMENTARY, THE EARLY LEARNING CENTER, AND SAINT MARTINVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL. THE PLANS INCLUDE A DESEGREGATION GOAL, MAJORITY TO MINORITY TRANSFERS, AND A MAGNET PROGRAM.
THE GRAND LAKE PONTOON BRIDGE ON HIGHWAY THREE-EIGHTY-FOUR IN CAMERON PARISH WILL REMAIN CLOSED FOR AT LEAST TWO MORE WEEKS. THE BRIDGE HAS BEEN CLOSED SINCE DECEMBER TWENTY-THIRD. CREWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT HAVE BEEN WORKING TO FIX A STRUCTURAL ISSUE WITH A LIFTING GIRDER. D-O-T-D OFFICIALS SAYS CREWS WILL BE WORKING SEVEN DAYS A WEEK UNTIL THE ISSUE IS FIXED AND THE BRIDGE IS REOPENED.
DETECTIVES WITH THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE ARRESTED A MAN WHO IS AN ALLEGED DRUG DEALER. THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD JOHNATHAN BOURQUE OF YOUNGSVILLE WAS PULLED OVER FOR FAILING TO DRIVE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD ON DECEMBER FOURTEENTH AND A SEARCH OF THE VEHICLE WAS CONDUCTED AFTER PROBABLE CAUSE WAS FOUND. DURING THE SEARCH, A HALF POUND OF METH WAS DISCOVERED VALUED AT MORE THAN TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS. BOURQUE FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES AND HE IS IN THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH JAIL ON A FIFTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND.
