10-12-26
TWO LAFAYETTE HOTELS WERE RECENTLY CLOSED BY COURT ORDER. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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A COUPLE FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES AFTER SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES FOUND TWO CONFINED CHILDREN AND A NEGLECTED ANIIMAL IN THEIR OPELOUSAS HOME. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE LAUNCHED A PROBE AFTER RECIEIVING REPORTS OF NARCOTICS INVOLVEMENT AT THE RESIDENCE. THEY FOUND TWO UNCLOTHED CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF FIVE LOCKED IN A ROOM IN HORRIFIC CONDITIONS. AND A CAGED ANIMAL WITHOUT BASIC NECESSITIES. KIMBERLY AND NICKOLAS BOLEJACK WERE ARRESTED WHILE THE CHILDREN WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE CARE OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES.
MORE THAN FIFTEEN HUNDRED HOMES IN MOSS BLUFF LOST POWER YESTERDAY MORNING. IT HAPPENED WHEN A CAR CRASHED INTO A POWER LINE. INVESTIGATORS WITH THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAY A SECOND VEHICLE ALSO KNOCKED DOWN POWER LINES WHILE TRYING TO CHECK ON THE DRIVER IN THE FIRST CRASH. THE CRASH TOOK OUT POWER TO NINETEEN HUNDRED BEAUREGARD ELECTRIC CUSTOMERS.
A PEDESTRIAN WAS KILLED ATTEMPTING TO CROSS EAST UNIVERSITY AVENUE IN LAFAYETTE. OFFICIALS SAY THE AREA IN THE NINE HUNDRED BLOCK OF EAST UNIVERSITY AVENUE HAD NO LIGHTING OR A CROSSWALK. THE PEDESTRIAN, THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD CODY SANSON OF NEW MARKET, IOWA, WAS DISTRACTED WHEN HE ENTERED THE LANE OF A SOUTHBOUND VEHICLE. SANSON WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. DRIVER IMPAIRMENT WAS DETERMINED NOT TO BE A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT.
A LAFAYETTE MAN LED POLICE ON A VEHICLE CHASE THROUGH NEW IBERIA FRIDAY MORNING THAT ENDED WHEN LAW ENFORCEMENT DEPLOYED SPIKE STRIPS. FIFTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD JOSPEH CARPENTER REPORTEDLY SWERVED INTO OPPOSITE LANES OF TRAFFIC AND CRASHED INTO A FENCE IN HIS ATTEMPT TO ELUDE POLICE. THE CHASE BEGAN WHEN POLICE APPROACHED THE VEHICLE AND SPOTTED A MALE IN THE FRONT PASSENGER SEAT CONSUMING NARCOTICS. THEY WERE RESPONDING TO REPORTS OF AN INDIVIDUAL SLUMPED OVER IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT.
THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS SEARCHING FOR A MISSING JUVENILE. SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD MADILIENE BURLEY WAS LAST SEEN SATURDAY NIGHT AT ELEVEN IN THE FORTY-SEVEN-HUNDRED BLOCK OF PLANTATION VILLAGE. SHE WAS WEARING A BLACK SHIRT AND BLACK SHORTS. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON HER LOCATION IS ASKED TO CALL THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE.
DUSON POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A MAN WHO HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE SEPTEMBER NINTH. FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD DAMIEN FELIX IS EPILEPTIC WITH HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. HIS NECESSARY DAILY MEDICATION WAS STILL AT HIS HOME ON B STREET IN DUSON. ANYONE WHO KNOWS HIS WHEREABOUTS IS ASKED TO CALL DUSON POLICE.
SOUTH LOUISIANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE AWARDED MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS IN SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDENTS THIS FALL SEMESTER. THE COLLEGE MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT DURING A RECEPTION HELD TUESDAY AT THE DOWNTOWN CONVENTION CENTER IN LAFAYETTE. THE SCHOLARSHIPS ARE FUNDED BY BUSINESSES, ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS THROUGHOUT ACADIANA. DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI COORDINATOR BRITTANY DUCOTE SAYS THE SCHOLARSHIPS ARE A REMINDER THAT THE COMMUNITY BELIEVES IN THE STUDENTS AND ARE INVESTED IN THEIR SUCCESS.
