12-6-22
THE LAFAYETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT IS INVESTIGATING A FIRE THAT HAPPENED MONDAY AT THE OLD RAMADA INN ON EVANGELINE THRUWAY, WHICH HAS BEEN ABANDONED FOR YEARS. SPOKESPERSON ALTON TRAHAN SAYS HOMELESS PEOPLE HAVE FREQUENTLY SET UP CAMP INSIDE THE ROOMS. HE SAYS A FIRE STARTED IN AN UPSTAIRS BEDROOM AND IT TOOK ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES TO PUT IT OUT. TRAHAN SAYS PERSONAL ITEMS WERE FOUND IN THE ROOM AND IT WAS LIKELY STARTED BY SOMEONE LIVING THERE.
THE POLICE CHIEF OF FRANKLIN HAS SUBMITTED HIS RESIGNATION, CITING HEALTH REASONS. MORRIS BEVERLY SUBMITTED A LETTER OF RESIGNATION TO MAYOR FOULCARD, WHO APPOINTED BEVERLY TO THE POSITION IN JANUARY OF TWENTY-NINETEEN. THE RESIGNATION TAKES EFFECT ON DECEMBER THIRTIETH. BEVERLY IS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICE CHIEF IN THE TWO-HUNDRED-TWO YEAR HISTORY OF FRANKLIN.
A SULPHUR MAN FACES NUMEROUS CHARGES AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY STOLE A TRUCK THAT HAD A GPS TRACKER ON IT. A BUSINESS ON ARENO ROAD IN SULPHUR PUT THE TRACKER ON THE TRUCK, AND DETECTIVES USED THAT INFORMATION TO LOCATE THE TRUCK AT A HOME IN SULPHUR, WHERE THEY MADE CONTACT WITH FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD AARON PRESTENBACH. AN INVESTIGATION REVEALED THE TRUCK HAD BEEN AT THE LOCATION OF BURGLARIES ON NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH AND TWENTY-EIGHTH, WHERE COPPER WIRING, ELECTRICAL PANEL COMPONENTS AND LEAD ROOF JACKS HAS BEEN STOLEN. DETECTIVES FOUND MULTIPLE ITEMS REPORTED STOLEN AT PRESTENBACH’S HOME.
THE EARLY VOTING PERIOD FOR THE DECEMBER TENTH ELECTION WRAPPED UP OVER THE WEEKEND AND SYLVIA MASTERS HAS SOME OF THE DETAILS.
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POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AFTER A TEEN GIRL FROM BROUSSARD CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN RAPED BY A MAN SHE MET THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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LAST NIGHT THE EVANGELINE PARISH POLICE JURY WAS EXPECTED TO HAVE MERGED THE LONG PINE AND WARD FIVE FIRE DISTRICTS. THOSE DISTRICTS WERE SEPERATED IN NINETEEN-EIGHTY-SEVEN BUT FIRE RATINGS HAVE SINCE GONE UP. POLICE JURY PRESIDENT BRYAN VIDRINE TELLS KLFY TV THAT THE MERGER IS EXPECTED TO RESULT IN LOWER PROPERTY TAXES AND, HOPEFULLY, THE FIRE RATING WILL GO DOWN, WHICH WOULD LOWER INSURANCE RATES FOR RESIDENTS IN THOSE DISTRICTS. THE TURKEY CREEK TOWN COUNCIL WILL HAVE TO APPROVE THE MERGER AS WELL.
SOME RESIDENTS OF ELTON ARE UPSET ABOUT WATER BILLS, WHICH THEY SAY HAVE DOUBLED IN THE LAST YEAR. KATC TV REPORTS THAT THE RATE FOR THE FIRST TWO THOUSAND GALLONS OF WATER IS TWENTY-SIX DOLLARS, UP FROM FIFTEEN DOLLARS BEFORE THE RATE CHANGE IN AUGUST, WHILE SEWER RATES FOR THE FIRST TWO THOUSAND GALLONS HAS GONE FROM FIVE DOLLARS TO TEN DOLLARS. MAYOR PRO TEMPORE, KESIA LEMOINE, SAYS THE STATE HAS FORCED THE TOWN TO “KEEP UP WITH THE JONESES” AFTER NOT RAISING THE RATES FOR AT LEAST A DECADE. LEMOINE SAYS THEY ALSO HAVE TO KEEP RATES COMPARABLE TO NEARBY TOWNS OF SIMILAR SIZE IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR STATE AND FEDERAL GRANTS.
THE BODY OF AN ABBEVILLE MAN WAS FOUND IN THE HEBERT CANAL IN VERMILLION PARISH EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON YESTERDAY. AUTHORITIES WITH THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES IDENTIFIED THE BODY AS FIFTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD JEREMY STELLY, WHOSE BODY HAS BEEN TURNED OVER TO THE VERMILLION PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE TO DETERMINE THE OFFICIAL CAUSE OF DEATH. AGENTS WITH THE DEPARTMENT WERE NOTIFIED OVER THE WEEKEND THAT STELLY HAD NOT RETURNED FROM HIS TRIP THE DAY BEFORE. AFTER A SEARCH, THEY FOUND AN UNMANNED EIGHTEEN FOOT VESSEL.
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