10-21-15
LAKE CHARLES POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR TWO MEN INVOLVED IN A HOME INVASION GONE BAD TO WORSE. TWO BLACK MALES WEARING HOODIES AND MASKS, ENTERED A HOME ON THE 400 BLOCK OF SCOTT STREET YESTERDAY MORNING AND DEMANDED MONEY. THEY BEGAN TO BEAT THE MAN IN THE HEAD WITH THEIR HANDGUNS WHEN HE TOLD THEM HE HAD NO MONEY. THE VICTIM WAS HOLDING HIS 3 YEAR OLD CHILD AT THE TIME AND AS THEY CONTINUED TO BEAT HIM, A SHOT WENT OFF AND WOUNDED THE THREE YEAR OLD. THE TWO MEN ESCAPED IN A GREEN 2000 – 2006 CHEVY SUBURBAN LAST SEEN GOING SOUTH ON COMMON STREET. THE MAN WAS TREATED AND RELEASED A T A LOCAL HOSPITAL, AND THE CHILD WAS TRANSPORTED TO AN OUT OF TOWN HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT. CONTACT POLICE WITH ANY INFORMATION REGARDING THE CRIME AT 491-1311.
LAST NIGHT, THE PORT OF IBERIA ANNOUNCED HUNDREDS OF NEW JOBS ARE ON THE HORIZON, AS A RESULT OF PRIMORIS SERVICES CORPORATION AND DYNAMIC INDUSTRIES BEING AWARDED PROJECTS AT THE PORT. PRIMORIS SERVICES CORP IS BUILDING A PIPE FABRICATION FACILITY AND IS LOOKING FOR SKILLED WELDERS AND FABRICATORS. DYNAMIC INDUSTRIES WILL SOON START TWO NEW PROJECTS AND ARE LOOKING TO HIRE 500 NEW EMPLOYEES. BOTH COMPANIES SAY THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING AND THEY HOPE TO GROW AND SUPPLY MORE JOBS IN THE FUTURE.
THE WELSH POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN INVESTINGATING A THEFT OF $6,500 REPORTED BY HENDERSON IMPLEMENT AND MARINE ON AUGUST 19TH. AFTER COUNTLESS HOURS OF QUESTIONING AND RESEARCHING, POLICE CONFRONTED TORRIE LYNN JOHNSON, 28 OF JENNINGS YESTERDAY WITH THE EVIDENCE. JOHNSON CONFESSED TO STEALING THE MONEY AND WAS BOOKED INTO THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH JAIL.
VERMILION PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS LOOKING FOR A TEEN THAT ESCAPED CUSTODY YESTERDAY. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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(AP) Five-and-a-half-year prison sentences have been handed to men from Texas and southwest Louisiana in a drug conspiracy case. U.S. Attorney Stephanie Finley says the case involved methamphetamine distribution. Fifty-two-year-old Chumphai (CHUM’-fye) Bob Mireles (mih REH’-les) of Lake Charles and 37-year-old Wayne Giese (Gise) of Pearland, Texas, were sentenced Monday. Finley’s office says law enforcement agents followed Mireles to Houston where he bought methamphetamine from Giese in 2014. Agents arrested Mireles as he traveled back to Louisiana and located more than 86 grams of methamphetamine in his vehicle. Each was sentenced on a count of conspiracy to distribute controlled dangerous substances. Court records show each pled guilty in June.
