11-28-22
STATE POLICE ARE STILL INVESTIGATING A CRASH INVOLVING A BICYCLIST FRIDAY NIGHT ON BULL ISLAND ROAD IN NEW IBERIA. ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, FORTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD RICKEY PAUL FLORES OF NEW IBERIA WAS RIDING HIS BIKE SOUTH IN THE NORTHBOUND LANES AT AROUND TEN FRIDAY NIGHT, WHEN HE MOVED INTO THE SOUTHBOUND LANE TO AVOID A VEHICLE. HE WAS THEN HIT BY ANOTHER VEHICLE, A FORD RANGER, AND WAS EJECTED FROM HIS BIKE, WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. THE DRIVER OF THE FORD RANGER WAS NOT INJURED AND A BREATH SAMPLE INDICATED NO ALCOHOL IN HIS SYSTEM.
A TERMINATION APPEAL HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR THIS WEDNESDAY IN FRONT OF THE LAFAYETTE MUNICIPAL FIRE AND POLICE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD FOR FIRED POLICE OFFICER PABLO ESTRADA. THE ATTORNEY FOR ESTRADA HAS ASKED BOARD MEMBER KENNETH BOUDREAUX TO RECUSE HIMSELF FROM THE HEARING. THAT’S BECAUSE BOUDREAUX, A FORMER CITY PARISH COUNCILMAN AND RADIO HOST, FOCUSED ONE OF HIS RADIO SHOWS ON THE CASE OF ESTRADA, WHO WAS FIRED IN FEBRUARY OF TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE. ESTRADA WAS ACCUSED OF PUSHING A MAN, WHO WAS BEING BOOKED, AGAINST A WALL AND PUNCHING HIM IN THE STOMACH.
EARLY VOTING FOR THE DECEMBER TENTH ELECTION RESUMES TODAY IN LOUISIANA. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS MORE.
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A PETITION HAS STARTED IN LAKE CHARLES TO GET FLASHING STOP SIGNS INSTALLED AT THE INTERSECTION OF L-A THREE-NINETY-SEVEN AND GAUTHIER ROAD. EARLY LAST WEEK, A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD, PHILIP CONNER, WAS KILLED IN AN ACCIDENT WHEN HE RAN A STOP SIGN AT THAT INTERSECTION. ZACHARY BROUSSARD STARTED THE PETITION TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT JUST HOW DARK THAT INTERSECTION GETS AT NIGHT, AND HE SAYS HE HAS MORE THAN FORTY-FIVE HUNDRED SIGNATURES ON HIS PETITION. THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORATION TELLS KPLC TV THAT ANY CHANGES AT THAT INTERSECTION WOULD REQUIRE THE COMBINED EFFORTS OF PARISH AND STATE OFFICIALS.
AN EVANGELINE PARISH INMATE WAS RECAPTURED FRIDAY NIGHT. DEONTARRIAN DEVON WILSON OF MAMOU HAD ESCAPED EARLIER THAT DAY. WILSON WAS BEING ESCORTED BY A CORRECTION DEPUTY WHEN HE RAN AWAY AND ESCAPED. HE WAS RECAPTURED AT AROUND ELEVEN-FORTY THAT SAME NIGHT WITHOUT INCIDENT.
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CONCEALED HANDGUN PERMITS CAN NOW BE ADDED TO THE L-A WALLET APP AFTER THE CREATORS OF THE APP SAY THEY RECEIVED THOUSANDS OF REQUESTS FOR THE FEATURE. CALVIN FABRE, THE PRESIDENT OF ENVOC, CALLED IT ANOTHER FIRST AND ANOTHER WIN FOR LOUISIANA CITIZENS. LAST YEAR, DIGITAL HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES AND COVID-NINETEEN VACCINATION VERIFICATIONS WERE ADDED TO THE APP. ONE-AND-A-HALF MILLION PEOPLE USE THE APP, WHICH WAS LAUNCHED IN TWNETY-EIGHTEEN.
TWO PEOPLE WERE SHOT IN EUNICE FRIDAY EVENING. IT HAPPENED NEAR AN APARTMENT COMPLEX ON BETTY STREET. POLICE CHIEF RANDY FONTENOT SAYS THE VICTIMS WENT TO A NEARBY WENDY’S RESTAURANT TO ASK FOR HELP. THEY WERE TREATED FOR GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE ARMS.
