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2-10-22

LAFAYETTE’S FORMER POLICE CHIEF SAYS HE WANTS HIS JOB BACK.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.

 

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THE DEMOUCHET FAMILY IN BREAUX BRIDGE LOST THREE RACEHORSES IN A BARN FIRE SUNDAY.  LINDA DEMOUCHET TELLS KLFY TV THAT HER HUSBAND RAN INTO THE BARN TO TRY AND SAVE THE HORSES AND NARROWLY ESCAPED HIMSELF WHEN THE ROOF CAVED IN.  THEY SAY FIREFIGHTERS DO NOT KNOW YET WHAT CAUSED THE FIRE.  THE FAMILY IS TRYING TO REBUILD THE BARN AND START OVER AND A GOFUNDME PAGE HAS BEEN SET UP TO RASIE MONEY FOR THEM.

 

THE LOUISIANA HOUSE AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE VOTED THIRTEEN-TO FOUR FOR A HOUSE BILL THAT WOULD SET NEW BOUNDARIES FOR THE ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIVE HOUSE DISTRICTS.  ONE DEMOCRAT, JEREMY LACOMBE OF NEW ROADS, AND AN INDEPENDENT WHO LEFT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, MALINDA WHITE OF BOGALUSA, BOTH VOTED FOR THE BILL.  ON FRIDAY, THE HOUSE AND SENATE WILL BE TAKING FINAL VOTES ON BILLS TO REDRAW EACH OF THEIR DISTRICT LINES, AND THEY ARE EXPECTED TO PASS.  THE NEXT STEP IN THE PROCESS WOULD BE FOR THE BILLS TO MOVE TO THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES IN EACH OF THE OTHER CHAMBER.

 

STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING IN LAKE CHARLES THAT HAPPENED AT AROUND FOUR-THIRTY YESTERDAY MORNING IN THE AREA OF COMMON AND SEVENTH STREETS.  THE OFFICERS, WHO WERE RESPONDING TO CALLS ABOUT AN UNRESPONSIVE MAN, ENCOUNTERED FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD RICHARD MALONE.  AFTER AN ALTERCATION, MALONE REPORTEDLY RAMMED THE CAR HE WAS DRIVING INTO A POLICE VEHICLE.  A LAKE CHARLES POLICE OFFICER SHOT AT MALONE, STRIKING HIM IN THE UPPER LEFT ARM.

 

LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICERS ARE BEING TRAINED TO DEAL WITH ALL TYPES OF SITUATIONS THROUGH A VIRTUAL TRAINING SIMULATOR.  IT WAS CREATED BY A COMPANY CALLED VIRTRA AND HELPS OFFICERS DEAL WITH SCENARIOS THAT INCLUDE “USE OF FORCE” AND MENTAL HEALTH CALLS.  SENIOR CORPORAL MATTHEW BENOIT SAYS THE SIMULATOR GIVES LIFE-LIKE TRAINING WITHOUT HAVING TO HAVE OFFICERS BE IN THAT SITUATION.  BENOIT SAYS ALL OFFICERS IN THE DEPARTMENT ARE TRAINING ON THE SIMULATOR.

 

 

 

FREE COVID-NINETEEN TEST KITS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED IN EUNICE TOMORROW.  IT WILL TAKE PLACE BETWEEN TEN A-M AND NOON ON PARK AVENUE ACROSS FROM CITY HALL.  EACH VEHICLE WILL BE LIMITED TO ONE TEST KIT, WHICH CONTAINS TWO TESTS.  TESTING KITS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE UNTIL THEY RUN OUT.

 

A Louisiana candidate for the U.S. Senate burns a Confederate flag in his latest video ad. Baton Rouge community activist Gary Chambers released the ad Wednesday. The ad was posted a day after the state Senate rejected a move to create a second majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana. Chambers says gerrymandered election districts that keep Black voters underrepresented are “a byproduct of the Confederacy.”

 

A CROWLEY MAN WAS ARRESTED FOR THE BURGLARY OF A VEHICLE THAT HAPPENED ON TUESDAY.  WITNESSES TOLD POLICE THEY SAW TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD KENNETH POULLARD ENTER A VEHICLE ON HORN DRIVE, COMMIT A BURGLARY AND FLEE THE SCENE.  POLICE FOUND AND ARRESTED POULLARD BASED ON THE DESCRIPTION THEY RECEIVED.  POULLARD WAS BOOKED INTO THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL ON A CHARGE OF SIMPLE BURGLARY.