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LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A SUSPECT BEHIND A CARJACKING THAT HAPPENED LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF PINHOOK AND EVANGELINE THRUWAY. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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ANOTHER ARREST HAS BEEN MADE IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING DEATH OF 22-YEAR-OLD DAKOTA CHAISSON AT THE WARD EVENT CENTER IN JENNINGS ON NOVEMBER 29TH. IT HAPPENED DURING A PRIVATE PARTY WITH ABOUT ONE HUNDRED FIFTY IN ATTENDANCE. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAREN ZENO OF WELSH IS THE SEVENTH PERSON ARRESTED, AND POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR TWO OTHER SUSPECTS. ZENO WAS BOOKED INTO THE JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH JAIL ON A CHARGE OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER ON MONDAY MORNING.
YESTERDAY AN APPOINTED JUDGE HEARD TESTIMONY AGAINST DISTRICT JUDGE LORI LANDRY, THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN JUDGE ELECTED IN IBERIA PARISH. DISTRICT ATTORNEY BO DUHE HAS REQUESTED THAT LANDRY BE REMOVED FROM MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED CASES HIS OFFICE IS PROSECUTING BECAUSE OF HER ALLEGED BIAS AGAINST THEM. PROSECUTORS AND STAFF IN THE D-A’S OFFICE TESTIFIED YESTERDAY BEFORE JUDGE HARRY F. RANDOW, WHO SAID HE’D NEVER SEEN A HEARING LIKE IT. THE TESTIMONY INCLUDED CLAIMS OF INTIMIDATION AND ACCUSATIONS BY JUDGE LANDRY AGAINST ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.
U.S. Sen. John Kennedy and Attorney General Jeff Landry are calling on Republican lawmakers in Louisiana’s state House to settle who will be their next speaker without involving Democrats. The two top Republican leaders sent the GOP House members a letter suggesting Democrats shouldn’t have a say in the House’s top leadership job for the new four-year term. Kennedy and Landry are co-chairman of a PAC that raised money to support conservative GOP candidates and helped elect several House members. The vote for new legislative leaders will be Jan. 13 as the new term starts.
THE FORMER OPERATOR OF THE ACADIANA MALL IN LAFAYETTE HAS FILED A LIEN AGAINST THE CURRENT OWNER OVER UNPAID BILLS. SPINOSO MANAGEMENT GROUP ALLEGES THAT THEY HAD AN AGREEMENT TO BE PAID OVER THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS BY THE NAMDAR REALTY GROUP FOR MANAGING AND SUPERVISING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE H&M STORE,WHICH OPENED NOVEMBER 21ST. SPINOSO CLAIMS THEY STILL HAVE NOT RECEIVED NEARLY 23 THOUSAND DOLLARS AND THEY ARE SEEKING THAT AMOUNT PLUS INTEREST. REUTERS NEWSPAPERS HAS REPORTED THAT NAMDAR REALTY, WHICH IS BASED OUT OF NEW YORK, HAS A REPUTATION OF BUYING LOW PERFORMING PROPERTIES AND SQUEEZING MONEY OUT OF THEM.
SIX AMERICAN OIL EXECUTIVEs, INCLUDING TWO FROM LAKE CHARLES, HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM A VENEZUELAN PRISON AND PUT UNDER HOUSE ARREST. THE SIX WERE ARRESTED JUST BEFORE THANKSGIVING TWO YEARS AGO ON CORRUPTION CHARGES AND HAVE BEEN AWAITING TRIAL. ONE OF THE MEN, TOMEU VADELL, WAS THE PLANT MANAGER OF THE CITGO REFINERY IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. ANOTHER OF THE MEN, ALIRIO ZAMBRANO, HAD ALSO SPENT TIME MANAGING THAT REFINERY.
CROWLEY POLICE CHIEF JIMMY BROUSSARD HAS RELEASED INFORMATION ON WHY A TRAIN STOPPED IN THE CITY AT AROUND MIDNIGHT SATURDAY. RESIDENTS CONTACTED THE CROWLEY POST SIGNAL NEWSPAPER AFTER THEY SAW THE TRAIN STOPPED AND A HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE. BROUSSARD TELLS THE POST SIGNAL THAT THE TRAIN’S CONDUCTER HAD CALLED POLICE CONCERNED THAT HE HAD POSSIBLY HIT A PEDESTRIAN. BROUSSARD SAYS THEY CONDUCTED A SEARCH BUT DID NOT FIND A VICTIM AND THE TRAIN CONTINUED ON ITS WAY.
Louisiana is broadening its efforts to combat hepatitis C in hopes of largely eliminating the deadly viral infection. The health department announced Tuesday that 10 Walmart locations around Louisiana will offer free screenings for the liver-damaging disease. Walmart will offer the no-cost hepatitis C screenings every Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. until Feb. 1 at the pharmacies in ten store locations including Ville Platte, New Iberia, Opelousas and Morgan City. If the testing detects hepatitis C virus antibodies, people will be referred to their primary care doctors or a local health provider for further testing and treatment.
