10-26-17
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING TUESDAY NIGHT THAT LEFT ONE MAN INJURED. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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TWO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AND THREE OTHERS ARE SOUGHT BY AUTHORITIES FOR A SHOOTING AT A LAKE CHARLES MOTEL PARKING LOT ON HIGHWAY 90 SUNDAY EVENING. A WOMAN TOLD AUTHORITIES THAT FOUR MEN GOT IN HER CAR AND SHOT HER HUSBAND WHEN SHE REFUSED TO HAND OVER HER PERSONAL BELONGINGS. THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE ISSUED A WARRANT FOR 18-YEAR-OLD TAMMY D. PRYOR OF IOWA, WHO YESTERDAY TURNED HERSELF INTO THE OAKDALE POLICE AND HAS SINCE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE CALCASIEU PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER. ANOTHER SUSPECT, FABIAN RECORD OF MAMOU, WAS ARRESTED TUESDAY EVENING IN OAKDALE.
THREE BROTHERS FROM OPELOUSAS WERE ARRESTED ON VARIOUS DRUG CHARGES AFTER THEY DROVE BY A RESIDENCE IN LEONVILLE THAT WAS BEING SEARCHED BY AUTHORITIES. ACCORDING TO THE ST. LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE, TWO OF THE MEN IN THE VEHICLE HAD BEEN NAMED IN THE SEARCH WARRANT. A SEARCH OF THE VEHICLE REVEALED A PLASTIC BAG FILLED WITH VARIOUS DRUGS AND A SCALE. TWO OF THE MEN, DEVON AND JOSEPH MAYON, HAD ACTIVE ARREST WARRANTS FOR DISTRIBUTION OF CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE.
ABOUT 14-HUNDRED INMATES, WHO ARE IN PRISON FOR NON-VIOLENT AND NON-SEX CRIMES, WILL BE RELEASED EARLY ON WEDNESDAY. IT’S PART OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE REINVESTMENT INITIATIVE, WHICH IS DESIGNED TO SAVE THE STATE 262 MILLION DOLLARS OVER THE NEXT DECADE. STATE OFFICIALS ARE HOPING THAT IT ALSO CHANGES THE STATE’S IMAGE AS THE WORLD LEADER IN INCARCERATION. 60 INMATES WILL BE RELEASED IN LAFAYETTE PARISH, 29 IN VERMILLION AND 24 IN ACADIA PARISH.
TWO KEYNOTE ADDRESSES AT THE LOUISIANA GULF COAST OIL EXPOSITION AT THE CAJUNDOME HAD DIFFERING VIEWS ON THE FUTURE OF THE OIL INDUSTRY. RYAN MALONE, GULF COAST PROJECT MANAGER FOR B-P, SAYS THE INDUSTRY NEEDS TO ADJUST TO THE REALITY OF FIFTY DOLLAR A BARREL PRICES AND HE DESCRIBED WHAT THEY ARE DOING, WHICH INCLUDES COST CUTTING MEASURES. HOWEVER, RANDALL LUTHI OF THE NATIONAL OCEAN INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION SAYS FIFTY DOLLARS A BARREL IS NOT ASUSTAINABLE AND IT NEEDS TO GET BACK INTO THE SEVENTY DOLLAR PLUS RANGE. HE SAYS THE FUTURE LOOKS GOOD AS OIL INDUSTRY PROGNOSTICATORS ARE PREDICTING OIL SUPPLY SHORTAGES IN THE YEAR 2020.
THE C-E-O OF L-N-G LIMITED MET WITH SHAREHOLDERS IN LAKE CHARLES YESTERDAY TO EXPLAIN WHY THE PROPOSED MAGNOLIA L-N-G PROJECT HAS TAKEN SO LONG TO GET STARTED. GREGORY VESEY SAYS A SLOW MARKET HAS KEPT BUYERS FROM SIGNING LONG TERM CONTRACTS. HE SAYS HE BELIEVES BUYERS WILL PURCHASE THESE CONTRACTS BEFORE THE END OF NEXT YEAR. HE SAYS HE HOPES CONSTRUCTION ON THE FACILITY WILL BEGIN IN EARLY 2019.
A ST. MARTINVILLE MAN PLED GUILTY TO ONE COUNT OF DRUG POSSESSION WITH THE INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE AND POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A FELON. 31-YEAR-OLD CLAY ANTHONY ROBERTSON WILL BE SENTENCED IN FEBRUARY AND HE FACES A MAXIMUM OF FIFTY YEARS IN PRISON. A SEARCH OF HIS APARTMENT BY POLICE LAST JANUARY LED TO THE RECOVERY OF LARGE AMOUNTS OF COCAINE AND MARIJUANA DIPPED IN T-H-C WAX, NEARLY 65 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH AS WELL AS WEAPONS, INCLUDING A STOLEN HANDGUN, AND AMMUNITION. POLICE LATER DETERMINED THAT ROBERTSON HAD A PREVIOUS CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE FELONY CONVICTION FROM 2007.
Louisiana residents with expired, unused or unwanted medications can dispose of them at state police troop locations this weekend. The Louisiana State Police is participating in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day , an initiative led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The effort is aimed at the safe disposal of prescription drugs, to lessen incidents of misuse, accidental poisonings and overdoses that can happen by keeping unnecessary medicines at home. Prescription drugs that people want to get rid of safely can be brought to state police troop locations from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
