12-9-22
A EUNICE COUPLE WERE ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY ABUSING AND MOLESTING A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD ADOPTED DAUGHTER AND A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD FOSTER SON. FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD ROBERT LEASON HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH MOLESTATION AND INDECENT BEHAVIOR WITH JUVENILES AND HIS WIFE, SHERI LEASON, HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE CRUELTY TO JUVENILES. PROVISIONAL SERGEANT JESSICA TEZENO WITH THE EUNICE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS AN INVESTIGATION WAS LAUNCHED IN EARLY NOVEMBER WHEN THE PRINCIPAL AT EUNICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NOTICED SEVERE BRUISING ON THE BOY. THE CHILDREN ARE NOW IN THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES.
TWO PEOPLE WERE FOUND DEAD IN AN APARTMENT BY LAFAYETTE POLICE RESPONDING TO A CALL FOR A WELFARE CHECK. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS WAS IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH YESTERDAY TO CELEBRATE THE REOPENING OF MOUNT PLEASANT BAPTIST CHURCH. MOUNT PLEASANT AND TWO OTHER CHURCHES WERE BURNED DOWN IN TWENTY-NINETEEN BY AN ARSONIST. EDWARDS SAYS THE THREE-YEAR PROCESS TO REBUILD THE CHURCH UPLIFTED AND UNIFIED THE FAITH-BASED COMMUNITY, SHOWING THAT A CHURCH IS MORE THAN A BUILDING. THE PASTOR, REVEREND GERALD TOUSSAINT, CALLED IT VALUABLE FOR THE GOVERNOR TO COME VISIT THEM BECAUSE IT SHOWED THE CHURCH IS RISING FROM THE ASHES.
AN ELTON MAN, WHO TRIED TO BREAK INTO A WOMAN’S CAR, WAS CONFRONTED BY THE WOMAN, WHO HAD A GUN. JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ON WEDNESDAY RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF A SUSPICIOUS PERSON AND WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT THE AREA ON PINE ISLAND HIGHWAY NORTH OF JENNINGS, THEY FOUND A WOMAN HOLDING A MAN AT GUNPOINT OUTSIDE HER CAR. THE MAN, FIFTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD THOMAS HENRY BUXTON, TRIED TO RUN WHEN DEPUTIES ARRIVED BUT HE WAS CAPTURED AND ARRESTED. THE WOMAN TOLD DEPUTIES SHE CAUGHT BUXTON TRYING TO BREAK INTO HER VEHICLE, AND IT WAS LATER LEARNED BUXTON HAD ALLEGEDLY BROKEN INTO OTHER VEHICLES IN THE AREA AS WELL AS A HOME.
TOMORROW IS THE RUNOFF ELECTION IN LOUISIANA AND IT INCLUDES A RUNOFF IN VILLE PLATTE IS BETWEEN COUNCILWOMAN CHRISTINA SAM AND HER CHALLENGER, ADAM TOUSSAINT. IN MID-NOVEMBER, SAM WAS ARRESTED FOR FRAUD AND FORGERY. SAM’S ATTORNEY, ROSHELL JONES, CLAIMS THE CHARGES ARE FALSE AND UNFOUNDED AND SHE’S CONFIDENT SAM WILL BE PROVEN NOT GUILTY. JONES TELLS KLFY TV SAM IS RUNNING A STRONG CAMPAIGN WITH THE COMMUNITY’S SUPPORT, DESPITE THE CHARGES.
ONE PERSON IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER A CRASH ON I-TEN IN LAFAYETTE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. AT AROUND THREE-FORTY, A DRIVER HIT A STALLED VEHICLE THAT WAS UNOCCUPIED NEAR THE AMBASSADOR CAFFERY EXIT ON THE WESTBOUND SIDE. THE DRIVER WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION. THE CLOSURE OF ONE OF THE LANES CAUSED TRAFFIC TO BACK UP ABOUT SIX MILES UNTIL ALL LANES WERE OPENED JUST AFTER SEVEN LAST NIGHT.
OIL COMPANIES HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED BY STATE REGULATORS THAT THEY’LL BE ENFORCING NEW RULES ON STORAGE TANKS. THE RULES WERE ESTABLISHED AFTER A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN BEAUREGARD PARISH WAS KILED WHILE SHE WAS ALLEGEDLY SITTING ON A STORAGE TANK NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF RAGLEY ON FEBRUARY TWENTY-EIGHTH OF TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE. THE RULES INCLUDE REQUIRING FENCING, LOCKED GATES, WARNING SIGNS, AND SEALED HATCHES ON TANKS NEAR POPULATED AREAS. THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES HAS IDENTIFIED FOURTEEN HUNDRED TANK BATTERY SITES THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE NEW RULES.
A MAN, ACCUSED OF POSSESSING OVER ONE THOUSAND METH PILLS IN RAYNE, WAS FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY THIS WEEK. RONTRELL MOSELY OF HOUMA WAS ARRESTED IN SEPTEMBER OF TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE AFTER A TRAFFIC STOP IN RAYNE. THE PILLS WERE FOUND IN HIS VEHICLE. MOSELY IS SCHEDULED TO BE SENTENCED ON FEBRUARY FOURTEENTH WHEN HE’LL FACE UP TO TWENTY YEARS IN PRISON AND UP TO A FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR FINE.
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