12-1-17
AT A COURT HEARING YESTERDAY, THE ATTORNEY FOR 26-YEAR-OLD LANDON C. BROUSSARD OF LAFAYETTE SAYS HE PLANS TO ASK FOR A DELAY IN HIS FIRST DEGREE MURDER TRIAL, WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN ON JULY TENTH. BROUSSARD IS ACCUSED OF BEATING TO DEATH HIS GIRLFRIEND’S THREE-YEAR-OLD SON, JULIAN MADERA. YESTERDAY’S COURT HEARING OCCURRED ON THE FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF MADERA’S DEATH. THE ATTORNEY, CASEY SECOR, WHO RECENTLY TOOK OVER THE CASE, SAYS HE NEEDS A DELAY TO HAVE PROPER TIME TO PREPARE A DEFENSE.
THE LAKE CHARLES FIRE DEPARTMENT IS ON PACE TO HAVE A RECORD YEAR FOR THE NUMBER OF EMERGENCY CALLS. CHIEF KEITH MURRAY ATTRIBUTES IT TO POPULATION GROWTH. MANY OF THE CALLS WERE TO TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, WHICH IS A SIGN OF THE INCREASED TRAFFIC FLOW IN LAKE CHARLES. MURRAY SAYS DESPITE THE BUSIER YEAR, THEY HAVE MAINTAINED A 94 PERCENT RATE OF GETTING TO THE SCENE WITHIN THEIR GOAL OF 320 SECONDS.
STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING YESTERDAY IN EUNICE THAT LED TO THE LOCKDOWN OF TWO SCHOOLS. AT AROUND NOON YESTERDAY, POLICE WERE CALLED TO A DOMESTIC DISPUTE AT A RESIDENCE NEAR SOUTH NINTH STREET AND WEST PARK AVENUE. SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVING, THE POLICE INITIATED A TRAFFIC STOP ON ONE OF THE SUSPECTS AND THAT SUSPECT BRANDISHED A WEAPON. AT LEAST ONE OFFICER SHOT THE SUSPECT, WHO WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT.
A former head of the Louisiana State Police is accused of deleting text messages amid an investigation of allegations that troopers improperly billed for overtime and expenses during a road trip. Before his March retirement, Mike Edmonson publicly condemned a side trip to Las Vegas that several troopers took during their drive to a law enforcement conference in California. But a state police report obtained by The Advocate says cellphone records show Edmonson was in contact with the troopers throughout their trip and received photographs of them sightseeing. The report also says Edmonson took a cellphone from a trooper who had been on the road trip and altered its settings so it would purge any text messages older than 30 days.
SCOTT POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A PERSON OF INTEREST IN A POSSIBLE COUNTERFEIT MONEY SCAM. EMILY GIANGRECO HAS MORE.
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A DEQUINCEY MAN WAS ARRESTED WEDNESDAY FOR BURGLARIZING A HIGH SCHOOL IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE WAS CALLED WEDNESDAY MORNING WHEN SCHOOL OFFICIALS NOTICED THAT COMPUTER EQUIPMENT WAS MISSING. SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWED A MAN ENTERING THE SCHOOL AT ABOUT TEN P-M TUESDAY NIGHT, AND HE WAS IDENTIFIED AS 32-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL S. BURGESS. DEPUTIES RECEIVED HELP FROM THE DEQUINCEY POLICE DEPARTMENT IN ARRESTING HIM AND THEY FOUND THE STOLEN ITEMS, WHICH WERE RETURNED TO THE SCHOOL.
A BOMB THREAT WAS DISCOVERED WRITTEN ON A BATHROOM WALL AT BREAUX BRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL YESTERDAY AT AROUND ONE. THE SCHOOL WAS EVACUATED, BUT THE EVACUATION WAS LIFTED AT AROUND TWO P-M. SUPERINTENDENT LOTTIE BEEBE SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN NO ARRESTS BUT A FOLLOWUP INVESTIGATION WILL BE CONDUCTED. SHE SAYS A BOMB THREAT IS AN ACT OF TERRORISM AND THE PERSON FOUND RESPONSIBLE COULD FACE FELONY CHARGES.
YESTERDAY, U-S SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY OF LOUISIANA ANNOUNCED HE WILL SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S NOMINEE TO THE FIFTH U-S CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, BASED IN NEW ORLEANS. EARLIER HE HAD WAVERED ON WHICH WAY HE WOULD VOTE BECAUSE OF CONCERNS THAT A PERSON WITH STRONGER TIES TO LOUISIANA HAD NOT BEEN NOMINATED. HOWEVER, KENNEDY DECIDED TO GIVE HIS SUPPORT TO KYLE DUNCAN AFTER SEEING HOW HE HANDLED A COMMITTEE HEARING YESTERDAY. ACCORDING TO THE ADVOCATE, KENNEDY’S SUPPORT MAKES IT HIGHLY LIKELY THAT DUNCAN WILL BE CONFIRMED.
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