11-30-22
A BUNKIE MOM, WHO WAS AWAKENED BY HER DOGS BARKING BEFORE DAWN YESTERDAY, FOUND A MAN FROM VILLE PLATTE IN HER SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER’S BED. AUTHORITIES SAY THE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD, WHO WAS ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE BED, AND HER FOUR-YEAR-OLD SISTER, WHO WAS ASLEEP IN THE SAME ROOM, WERE NOT HARMED. THE MAN, SIXTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD JEFFREY BRANT, APPEARED TO BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE OR SUBSTANCES. HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AND CHARGED WITH HOME INVASION, CRIMINAL TRESPASS, AND INDECENT BEHAVIOR WITH JUVENILES.
THE RUNOFF ELECTION IS DECEMBER TENTH AND TWO CANDIDATES ARE FACING EACH OTHER FOR LAFAYETTE’S CITY COURT JUDGE. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS MORE.
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LAKE CHARLES POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AN OVERNIGHT SHOOTING. IT HAPPENED AROUND TWO A-M THIS MORNING. THE SHOOTING OCCURRED OUTSIDE THE V-V-S-ONE HOOKA LOUNGE. THERE’S NO WORD YET FROM POLICE IF THERE WERE ANY INJURIES OR ARRESTS.
THE HURRICANE SEASON, WHICH ENDED WEDNESDAY, FINISHED WITH FOURTEEN NAMED STORMS, INCLUDING EIGHT HURRICANES. TWO OF THE HURRICANES WERE MAJOR, MEANING THEY HAD WIND SPEEDS OF MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED ELEVEN MILES AN HOUR. CASEY TINGLE WITH THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS SAYS THE QUIET SEASON FOR LOUISIANA ALLOWED THEM TO CATCH UP ON ASSISTING PARISHES WITH RECOVERY EFFORTS DATING ALL THE WAY BACK TO TWO THOUSAND FIVE. HE SAYS IT ALSO GAVE THEM TIME TO MAKE PREPARATIONS FOR FUTURE STORMS.
SAINT MARY PARISH SHERIFF’S DETECTIVES HAVE DETERMINED A THIRD PERSON WAS NOT INVOLVED IN A WEEKEND HOMOCIDE IN BAYOU VISTA. DEPUTIES, RESPONDING TO A CALL OF A WELFARE CONCERN, FOUND TWO WOMEN IN A SMALL STRUCTURE BEHIND A HOME ON SOUTHWEST ROAD. ONE OF THE WOMEN, THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD HEATHER DUPRE OF BAYOU VISTA, WAS DEAD WITH MULTIPLE LACERATIONS ON HER BODY AND THE SECOND WOMAN, TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD SKILAN GROS (SKEE LAHN GROH), ALSO OF BAYOU VISTA, WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH A GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE HEAD. CHIEF DEPUTY GARY DRISKELL SAYS THE INCIDENT WAS CONFINED TO THESE TWO PEOPLE AND NOT THE RESULT OF A THIRD PERSON.
LAFAYETTE MAYOR-PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY USES LOCAL POLICE FOR HIS PERSONAL SECURITY. SOME CITY AND PARISH COUNCIL MEMBERS WANT TO KNOW IF HE IS WITHIN HIS RIGHTS TO HAVE PERSONAL SECURITY. GUILLORY TELLS KLFY TV HE IS NOT THE FIRST MAYOR PRESIDENT TO HAVE A DIGNITARY DETAIL AND HE DOESN’T CONTROL WHAT THE OFFICERS DO WHEN IT COMES TO HIS PROTECTION. GUILLORY SAYS IF HE IS DOING SOMETHING NON-GOVERNMENTAL, LIKE A CAMPAIGN, HE WILL PAY THE OFFICER OR DEPUTY HIMSELF.
THE DRIVER OF A WHITE G-M-C PICKUP SPED AWAY FROM JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES TUESDAY WHEN THE DEPUTIES TRIED TO PULL THEM OVER. IT TURNED OUT THE PICKUP HAD BEEN STOLEN FROM A REPAIR SHOP IN JENNINGS AND THE TWO OCCUPANTS, BOTH FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLDS, WERE ARRESTED AFTER THEY LATER TRIED TO RUN AWAY ON FOOT. ONE OF THE TWO WAS FOUND TO HAVE A STOLEN FIREARM IN HIS BACKPACK. THE TWO WERE CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF A STOLEN VEHICLE AND RESISTING AN OFFICER, AND ONE OF THE JUVENILES WAS ALSO CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF A STOLEN FIREARM.
THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS CRACKING DOWN ON DEALERS AND SELLERS. SHERIFF BOBBY GUIDROZ SAYS THE DEALERS AND SELLERS ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO REPORT ANYONE WHO IS DENIED THE PURCHASE OF A FIREARM. GUIDROZ SAYS HE WILL REPORT ANYONE WHO DOESN’T DO THAT TO THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR FIREARMS LICENSING, AND THEY WILL LOSE THEIR LICENSE. THE DEALER COULD ALSO BE SENTENCED FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON AND BE FINED AS MUCH AS FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
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