11-10-21
A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, WHO POLICE FOUND ALONE AND WITHOUT A PULSE IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE IN LATE OCTOBER, HAS DIED. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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LAST NIGHT THE EVANGELINE PARISH POLICE JURY HELD A PUBLIC HEARING TO DISCUSS WAYS TO FUND A NEW JAIL. SHERIFF CHARLES GUILLORY HAS PROPOSED BUILDING A TWENTY-ONE-POINT-FOUR MILLION DOLLAR FACILITY BECAUSE THE CURRENT JAIL IS AT CAPACITY AND THE PARISH IS PAYING UP TO EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH TO HOUSE INMATES ELSEWHERE. SOME IN ATTENDANCE SAID THAT THE PROBLEM COULD BE SOLVED BY NOT JAILING PRETRIAL INMATES WHO ARE FACING MISDEMEANORS OR MINOR OFFENSES. OTHERS SAID THAT THE COURTS NEED TO GET THE BALL ROLLING ON CASES THAT HAVE BEEN PUT ON HOLD BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC.
The Republican Party of Louisiana faces infighting and accusations of vote manipulation tactics ahead of next year’s party leadership elections. The state GOP secretary Michael Bayham sent an email Tuesday to party governing body members accusing Louisiana Republican Party Chairman Louis Gurvich of mishandling the election plans. Bayham suggested it was improper for Gurvich to be campaigning for reelection to his leadership job before setting the election date. Gurvich said the leadership elections must be held by March 31, and an election would be called to meet that timeline.
A VILLE PLATTE MAN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY STRANGLED A WOMAN AT A HOME IN LAKE CHARLES. FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD TEDDY T. ARVIE WAS A FRIEND OF THE WOMAN AND CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES SAY HE HIT HER, THEN PINNED HER DOWN AND STRANGLED HER. THE VICTIM MANAGED TO TEXT FAMILY MEMBERS ASKING THEM TO CALL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND, WHEN THEY ARRIVED, ARVIE FLED OUT THE BACK DOOR. ARVIE WAS LATER FOUND AND ALLEGEDLY TOLD DETECTIVES THAT HE DID STRANGLE HER AND THREATENED TO KILL HER.
A FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN FOR U-L LAFAYETTE, THAT BEGAN IN TWENTY-SIXTEEN, HAS NETTED THREE HUNDRED FOUR MILLION DOLLARS SO FAR, ACCORDING TO THE MAIN COORDINATOR, LISA CAPONE. THE GOAL IS FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. SHE TELLS KATC TV THAT THE FUNDRAISER ALLOWS DONORS TO CHOOSE WHERE THEIR MONEY GOES. CAPONE SAYS THE CATEGORY OF FIRST YEAR SCHOLARSHIPS NEEDS SOME HELP.
THE MOTHER OF A BREAUX BRIDGE MAN, WHO WAS SHOT SEVEN TIMES ON OCTOBER THIRTY-FIRST, SAYS HE IS STILL CLINGING TO LIFE AND IS HOPING TO SEE HIS BABY DAUGHTER, WHO IS DUE NEXT MONTH. ANGELIQUE ALEXANDER SAYS HER SON, TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD JONQUALAN ALEXANDER, WAS STANDING WITH ANOTHER MAN IN THE NINE HUNDRED BLOCK OF WEST PATIN STREET, WHEN A VEHICLE PULLED UP AND OPENED FIRE. THE OTHER MAN, WHOSE NAME HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED, DIED HOURS AFTER THE SHOOTING. ANGELIQUE SAYS WHOEVER DID THIS SHOULD PAY FOR IT AND SHE PRAYS GOD LAYS IT ON THE GUNMAN’S HEART TO COME FORWARD.
Louisiana Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley is drawing scrutiny for awarding $342,000 in two no-bid contracts. Those contracts went to a former top Baton Rouge schools official who started a consulting firm only weeks before striking the deals. The Advocate reports that one of the contracts did not follow normal procedures. The head of the state education board also said she was in the dark about an agreement that requires her review.
A CROWLEY MAN, WHO IS ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS MOTHER, WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY IN AUSTIN COUNTY, TEXAS. THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF FIFTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD PAMELA MEYERS CALLED AUTHORITIES BECAUSE SHE HAD BEEN MISSING SINCE NOVEMBER SECOND AND HER LAST KNOWN LOCATION WAS A FIELD OFF OF BAMBOO ROAD IN ACADIA PARISH WITH HER SON, THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD STEPHEN WAYNE MEYERS. HER BODY WAS FOUND IN THAT AREA ON NOVEMBER SIXTH WITH TRAUMA TO THE FACE. ACADIA PARISH DEPUTIES FOUND OUT STEPHEN HAD TRAVELED TO A FAMILY MEMBER’S HOME IN AUSTIN COUNTY, TEXAS, AND, WITH THE HELP OF THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT THERE, THEY FOUND STEPHEN HIDING IN BRUSH BEHIND A RESIDENCE.
