12-22-23
A FEDERAL JURY TOOK ABOUT AN HOUR TO DECIDE SIX LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICERS DID NOT VIOLATE THE RIGHTS OF A LAFAYETTE MAN WHO CLAIMED EXCESSIVE FORCE WAS USED WHEN ARRESTING HIM IN TWENTY-EIGHTEEN. RAYNALDO MARKEITH SAMPY FILED THE LAWSUIT IN TWENTY-NINETEEN, CLAIMING HIS CONSITUTIONAL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED AND THAT OFFICERS INJURED HIM. THE JURY DETERMINED CORPORAL JONATHAN RABB DID NOT USE EXCESSIVE FORCE AND THE OFFICERS WERE NOT GUILTY OF FAILING TO INTERVENE BY STOPPING THE USE OF FORCE. THE JURY ALSO DETERMINED THE SIX OFFICERS DID NOT INTENTIONALLY INFLICT EMOTIONAL DISTRESS.
A BREAUX BRIDGE MAN, WHO WAS REPORTED MISSING FOUR DAYS AGO, WAS FOUND DEAD YESTERDAY. SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD DWAYNE ANGELLE WAS LAST SEEN BY HIS FAMILY ON SATURDAY LEAVING FOR HENDERSON. HIS BODY WAS FOUND IN HENDERSON AT AROUND SEVEN-THIRTY YESTERDAY MORNING. THE CAUSE OF DEATH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION BUT FOUL PLAY IS NOT SUSPECTED.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES SAYS MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED THIRTY THOUSAND FAMILIES ACROSS LOUISIANA WILL SEE BENFITS DECREASE IN THE NEW YEAR. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.
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FOR THE FIFTH YEAR IN A ROW, PHILIPS SIXTY-SIX AND THE WESTLAKE RECREATIONAL COMPLEX PARTNERED TOGETHER TO GIVE PRESENTS TO CHILDREN IN NEED. STAFF FROM THE RECREATIONAL COMPLEX WENT TO AREA SCHOOLS TO FIND THOSE CHILDREN AND COMPILE A WISH LIST THAT WAS GIVEN TO PHILIPS SIXTY-SIX. YESTERDAY MORNING WESTLAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT TRUCKS WERE USED TO DELIVER THE PRESENTS TO TWENTY-SIX DIFFERENT FAMILIES. THE REST OF THE PRESENTS WERE PICKED UP FROM THE RECREATIONAL COMPLEX.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A THREE-VEHICLE CRASH YESTERDAY. IT HAPPENED IN THE THREE HUNDRED BLOCK OF LOUISIANA AVENUE AND A SECTION OF LOUISIANA AVENUE WAS SHUT DOWN FOR A SHORT WHILE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. FOUR PEOPLE WERE INJURED IN THE CRASH. TWO SUFFERED CRITICAL INJURIES WHILE THE OTHERS HAD MINOR INCAPACITATING INJURIES, BUT ALL FOUR ARE IN STABLE CONDITION.
AN ARREST HAS BEEN MADE IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING THAT LEFT A TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD MAN DEAD AND A WOMAN AND A TODDLER INJURED IN EUNICE. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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THE TASK FORCE ON JUVENILE OFFENDER POLICIES BEGAN ITS FACT-FINDING MISSION TO DETERMINE PROBLEMS FACING LOUISIANA’S JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM. THE OFFICE OF JUVENILE JUSTICE DEPUTY SECRETARY DERON PATIN SAYS A LACK OF SPACE FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS IS UNDERMINING THEIR ABILITY TO REHABILITATE THE CHILDREN. THE OFFICE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND JUVENILES, A FIGURE THAT HAS BEEN STEADILY CLIMBING SINCE TWENTY-FOURTEEN. THE TASK FORCE IS EXPECTED TO PROVIDE A REPORT TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE BEFORE THE REGULAR SESSION BEGINS IN MARCH.
THE OWNER OF PRESTIGE RESTORATION SERVICES CAME UP WITH A NOVEL IDEA TO CLEAN SAINT MICHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CROWLEY. T-J OHLENFORST SUBCONTRACTED WITH MAV WERKZ OUT OF LAKE CHARLES TO USE A DRONE TO CLEAN THE CHURCH FROM ABOVE. T-J TELLS KATC TV THAT THIS WAS MORE MEANINGFUL TO HIM THAN A REGULAR JOB BECAUSE HE’S A NATIVE OF CROWLEY. HE SAYS HE’S BEEN AROUND THE CHURCH HIS WHOLE LIFE AND, BEING HIS HOMETOWN, THIS JOB MEANT A LOT MORE.
