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11-22-2019

A YOUNGSVILLE MAN WAS INDICTED IN FEDERAL COURT ON CHARGES OF WIRE FRAUD FROM A MILLION DOLLAR PONZI SCHEME.  MEGAN KELLY HAS MORE.

 

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JUDGES IN THE 14TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT HAVE ADVISED CALCASIEU PARISH DISTRICT ATTORNEY JOHN DEROSIER TO END A PROGRAM ALLOWING PEOPLE TO BUY GIFT CARDS IN LIEU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE.  KATC TV REPORTED LAST MONTH THAT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF GIFT CARDS WERE FUNNELED THROUGH THE D-A’S OFFICE TO DISMISS AT LEAST A PORTION OF COMMUNITY SERVICE TIME.  FORMER EMPLOYEES HAVE SAID THAT THE GIFT CARDS WERE NOT PROPERLY DOCUMENTED OR DISBURSED.  KATC OBTAINED A LETTER BY JUDGE W. MITCHELL REDD IN WHICH HE TELLS OTHER JUDGES IN THE DISTRICT TO NOT ALLOW GIFT CARDS TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN ANY DEGREE FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE.

 

EUNICE POLICE HAVE MADE ANOTHER ARREST IN THE FATAL SHOOTING OF A BICYCLIST ON NOVEMBER FOURTH NEAR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL.  21-YEAR-OLD DE’OMAANTE “D GOTTI” FRANK WAS RIDING HIS BIKE ON EAST MAPLE AVENUE WHEN A VEHICLE PULLED UP NEXT TO HIM AND MULTIPLE SHOTS WERE FIRED AT HIM.  LAST WEEK, EUNICE POLICE ARRESTED 19-YEAR-OLD DEMYRON SKINNER AND CHARGED HIM WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER.  THE SECOND PERSON ARRESTED IS 18-YEAR-OLD LAINEY LOMAS OF EUNICE, WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH PRINCIPAL TO SECOND DEGREE MURDER.

 

Gov. John Bel Edwards says Louisiana’s Office of Motor Vehicles locations are on track to reopen Monday, after work to repair problems caused by a cyberattack are complete.  OMV offices around the state have been shuttered all week, disrupting Louisiana drivers’ ability to get license renewals, car registrations and other services.  The attempted ransomware attack caused the shutdown of state servers Monday, upending online services and email across state agencies. Edwards said Thursday the ransomware attack was “largely unsuccessful” because the state didn’t lose its data and didn’t pay a ransom.

 

APPLICATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED FROM COMMUNITY BASED AGENCIES THAT WANT TO PROVIDE HEAD START OR EARLY HEAD START SERVICES IN LAFAYETTE, IBERIA AND ST. MARTIN PARISHES.  A TWELVE-POINT-FOUR MILLIION DOLLAR GRANT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE AGENCY OR AGENCIES THAT ARE BEST QUALIFIED.  THE SMILE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY LOST ITS FEDERAL GRANT IN 2017 AND THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE HEAD START HAS BEEN RUNNING THE HEAD START PROGRAMS IN THOSE PARISHES SINCE THEN.  THE DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR THE GRANT IS JANUARY THIRTEENTH.

 

TWO PEOPLE FROM MOSS BLUFF HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AFTER THEY WERE SUSPECTED OF DEALING DRUGS FROM THEIR HOME.  DETECTIVES WITH THE COMBINED ANTI-DRUG TASK FORCE OF CALCASIEU PARISH SEARCHED THE HOME OF 26-YEAR-OLD MATTHEW REYNOLDS AND 29-YEAR-OLD SAMANTHA ROACH ON WEDNESDAY.  THEY FOUND VARIOUS DRUGS VALUED AT BETWEEN TEN AND TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AS WELL AS A STOLEN HANDGUN.  THEY WERE ARRESTED AND BOOKED INTO THE CALCASIEU CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON SEVERAL DRUG AND WEAPONS CHARGES.

 

AT A SPECIAL MEETING LAST NIGHT, THE CHURCH POINT COUNCIL VOTED TO LET THE ACADIA PARISH DISTRICT ATTORNEY DECIDE IF THE POLICE CHIEF IS GUILTY OF MALFEASANCE.  ON MONDAY IN MAYOR’S COURT, POLICE CHIEF DALE THIBODEAUX WALKED OUT AND ORDERED HIS OFFICERS TO DO THE SAME AFTER A NON-GUILTY VERDICT WAS READ BY THE CITY ATTORNEY BRAD ANDRUS, FORCING THE CANCELLATION OF THE COURT.  THIBODEAUX SAID THAT HE FELT THAT WHAT HE DID WAS NOT PROFESSIONAL, ACCORDING TO KATC TV.  IN A FACEBOOK POST THAT HAS SINCE BEEN DELETED, THIBODEAUX SAID HIS DEPARTURE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE VERDICT BUT OVER WHAT HE CONSIDERS TO BE CONTINUED DISRESPECT OF OFFICERS AND THE ATTENDEES BY THE COURT.

 

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards sketched out the broad outlines of his agenda for a second term, proposing new investments in education and transportation.  The Democratic incumbent said his top priority will be new dollars for early childhood education, an issue he frequently cited as he campaigned.  Edwards also said he’d continue to seek teacher pay raises and boosted spending on public colleges, building on increases he and lawmakers adopted this year. He said he’ll propose to spend some state surplus dollars on transportation and coastal protection projects.

And he said he’d oppose any efforts to roll back taxes if that could destabilize Louisiana’s budget.