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10-11-18

WHILE STATE POLICE ARE IN CHARGE OF AN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING INVESTIGATION, LAFAYETTE POLICE SAY 19-YEAR-OLD KEION BONNER HAD A GUN BEFORE A LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICER SHOT HIM.  JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.

 

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THE SULPHUR POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS RECEIVED COMPLAINTS ABOUT PRANKS RELATED TO THE HOMECOMING GAME THIS FRIDAY.  POLICE CHIEF LEWIS COATS SAYS IT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR WHERE PRANKS START OUT INNOCENT ENOUGH AND THEN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE.  HE SAYS THE COMPLAINTS DEAL WITH FROZEN PAINT BALLS BEING SHOT AT VEHICLES, CAUSING DAMAGE.  HE SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN NO CRIMINAL REPORTS FILED YET.

 

RIDE ACADIANA IS ADDING SEVEN NEW STOPS IN ITS ROUTE BETWEEN LAFAYETTE AND ACADIA PARISH.  FIVE OF THE STOPS ARE IN CROWLEY, INCLUDING A STOP AT THE SOUTH LOUISIANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAMPUS, AND THE OTHER TWO STOPS ARE IN RAYNE AND IN DUSON.  MONIQUE BOULET, THE C-E-O OF THE ACADIANA PLANNING COMMISSION, SAYS THE STOPS WERE ADDED BECAUSE OF FEEDBACK DURING THE FIRST SIX WEEKS OF OPERATION FROM PEOPLE ALONG THE ROUTE.  THE REVISED ROUTE SCHEDULE GOES INTO EFFECT THIS MONDAY.

 

Louisiana is sending dozens of emergency personnel, along with boats, ambulances and other equipment to Florida to help with the response to Hurricane Michael.  The state emergency preparedness office announced the assistance Wednesday, shortly before the storm roared ashore.  The emergency workers include ambulance teams coordinated by the Louisiana health department, search-and-rescue workers from the fire marshal’s office, firefighters, medics and a helicopter team from the Louisiana National Guard. The assistance, for which Louisiana will be reimbursed, is coordinated through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact system.

 

A LAFAYETTE MAN WAS SENTENCED TO THIRTY MONTHS IN PRISON FOR MAKING THREATS ON INTERSTATE COMMUNICATIONS TO CONGRESSMAN CLAY HIGGINS.  ON JULY 17TH LAST YEAR, FIFTY-YEAR-OLD SOHAIL RANA CALLED HIGGIN’S OFFICE WHILE HE WAS IN COLORADO AND THREATENED TO END HIGGIN’S CAREER AND KILL HIM.  THE PHONE NUMBER USED WAS REPORTED TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND IT WAS TRACED TO RANA’S CELL PHONE.  U-S DISTRICT JUDGE D-D DRELL ORDERED RANA TO SERVE TWO YEAR’S OF SUPERVISED RELEASE AFTER COMPLETING HIS PRISON SENTENCE.

 

THE BEAUREGARD PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS LOOKING FOR AN ESCAPED SUSPECT NEAR RAGLEY.  35-YEAR-OLD CHRIS GUILLORY WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AFTER DEPUTIES FOUND SEVERAL STOLEN ITEMS.  HE WAS PLACED IN A VEHICLE, BUT, WHEN THE DEPUTY STEPPED AWAY MOMENTARILY, GUILLORY ESCAPED.  GUILLORY, WHO IS WHITE, FIVE-SIX AND 175 POUNDS WITH BLONDISH/BROWNISH HAIR, WAS LAST SEEN ON SOUTH COOLEY ROAD NEAR RAGLEY.

 

THERE’S A BIT OF CONFUSION IN A CROWLEY CITY COUNCIL RACE.  JEFF HORCHAK EXPLAINS.

 

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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has drawn his first Republican challenger in next year’s governor’s race.  Baton Rouge businessman Eddie Rispone (RIHS-poh-nay) filed state paperwork Wednesday declaring his candidacy for the 2019 election.  Rispone, founder of an industrial contracting company, is a longtime donor to GOP and conservative campaigns and causes. The wealthy businessman says he plans to invest his own money in what will be an expensive governor’s race.