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A BANK TELLER WAS SHOT DURING A ROBBERY AT COMMUNITY FIRST BANK IN BROUSSARD LATE YESTERDAY MORNING, AND IS IN STABLE CONDITION. SEVERAL SCHOOLS IN THE AREA WERE PUT ON LOCKDOWN WHILE POLICE SEARCHED FOR THE SUSPECT, WHO IS DESCRIBED AS BLACK, ABOUT SIX FEET TALL WITH A THIN BUILD. THE SUSPECT ENTERED THE BANK THROUGH LOCKED DOORS BY SHOOTING OUT THE GLASS, AND THEN JUMPED ON THE COUNTER AND TOOK MONEY FROM A REGISTER. POLICE FOCUSED ON THE NEIGHBORHOODS SURROUNDING THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE BANK, LOCATED ON ALBERTSON PARKWAY AND MORGAN STREET, BUT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO LOCATE HIM YET.
CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES WERE ABLE TO RECOVER A STOLEN GENERATOR BECAUSE IT HAD A G-P-S TRACKING DEVICE ON IT. THE GENERATOR HAD BEEN AT A WORKSITE ON HOUSTON RIVER ROAD IN WESTLAKE AND IT WAS LATER FOUND AT A RESIDENCE ON EDDY STREET IN LAKE CHARLES. WHILE THERE, DEPUTIES FOUND A SECOND GENERATOR, BUT THE COMPANY LOST SIGNAL ON THE G-P-S AND WASN’T AWARE IT WAS MISSING. TWO MEN AT THE RESIDENCE, 31-YEAR-OLD GEORGE EDWARDS THE THIRD AND 36-YEAR-OLD JOEY P. HANCHETT, WERE ARRESTED AND THEIR BOND WAS SET AT TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS.
THE TRIAL OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST CHARGED WITH 500 COUNTS OF POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY WAS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN YESTERDAY IN ST. MARTIN PARISH, BUT IT DID NOT HAPPEN. THE ST. MARTIN CLERK OF COURT TOLD THE DAILY ADVERTISER THAT THE ATTORNEYS ON BOTH SIDES AGREED BY PHONE TO MOVE THE TRIAL TO FEBRUARY FIFTH. THE REVEREND F. DAVID BROUSSARD WAS THE PRIEST AT ST. BERNARD CATHOLIC CHURCH IN BREAUX BRIDGE IN THE SUMMER OF 2016 WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED AFTER IMAGES OF CHILDREN WERE FOUND ON HIS COMPUTER. BROUSSARD WAS REMOVED FROM HIS PRIESTLY DUTIES BY THE DIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE SHORTLY AFTER HIS ARREST.
Gov. John Bel Edwards and other Louisiana officials are heading to Washington to talk about the state’s efforts to revamp the criminal justice system and lessen its top-of-the-nation incarceration rate. The Democratic governor will speak at a Pew Charitable Trusts’ event Tuesday. He’ll be joined by Deputy Assistant Corrections Secretary Natalie LaBorde; Republican state Rep. Tanner Magee, a sponsor of the legislation; and Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre. The group will discuss bills passed this year that expand probation and parole opportunities and shrink sentences, mainly for non-violent offenders.
A LAFAYETTE MAN WAS CONVICTED MONDAY ON COUNTS OF VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE AND NEGLIGENT INJURY AFTER HIS INVOLVEMENT IN A CRASH THAT KILLED A TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL BACK IN APRIL OF 2016. EMILY GIANGRECO HAS MORE.
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LOUISIANA STATE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER WHO KILLED A PEDESTRIAN EARLY MONDAY MORNING NEAR LAKE CHARLES. SHORTLY BEFORE TWO A-M MONDAY, 29-YEAR-OLD SAMANTHA MARIE BROUSSARD OF MOSS BLUFF WAS WALKING ON THE SHOULDER OF AN ON-RAMP ONTO INTERSTATE TEN ABOUT TWO MILES WEST OF LAKE CHARLES WHEN A VEHICLE STRUCK AND KILLED HER. TROOPERS BELIEVE THE SUSPECT VEHICLE WILL HAVE HEAVY DAMAGE TO THE FRONT PASSENGER SIDE. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CALL STATE POLICE TROOP D.
A PEDESTRIAN WAS KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY A TRAIN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON IN RAYNE. A POLICE INVESTIGATION REVEALS THE PEDESTRIAN WAS WALKING NORTH ON MERVINE KAHN EXTENSION WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY AN AMTRAK TRAIN TRAVELING FROM NEW ORLEANS TO BEAUMONT. THE ACADIA PARISH CORONER PRONOUNCED THE MAN DEAD AT THE SCENE. HIS NAME IS BEING WITHHELD UNTIL NEXT OF KIN CAN BE NOTIFIED.
Louisiana’s newest state treasurer will be sworn into office Dec. 5. Treasurer-elect John Schroder’s swearing-in ceremony will be held in Kenner that evening, followed by a reception. It falls the day after the election results are official, according to the Secretary of State’s office. Schroder will fill the seat vacated by John Kennedy, a Republican who left the job early after winning election to the U.S. Senate.
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