2-14-19
AN 18 MONTH LONG PROSTITUTION INVESTIGATION CULMINATED WITH THE ARREST OF NINE PEOPLE AND FIVE BUSINESSES SEARCHED. JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.
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A full-term newborn girl found in the grass outside a Louisiana hospital is doing well but police are searching for her mother. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office says a woman told deputies she heard crying as she got into her car Tuesday night outside Lake Charles Memorial Hospital. She found the naked baby about 50 yards from the hospital’s front door. Sheriff Tony Mancuso said in a news release Wednesday that once found, the mother will face child abandonment charges.
OPELOUSAS POLICE HAVE MADE AN ARREST IN CONNECTION WITH A REPORTED DRIVE BY SHOOTING. THEY’VE SINCE LEARNED IT WASN’T A DRIVE BY SHOOTING BUT THE RESULT OF AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN TWO MEN AT A CONVENIENCE STORE NEAR LAURENT AND EAST STREET. DURING THE ARGUMENT, 26-YEAR-OLD JAMARCUS STELLY OF OPELOUSAS WENT TO HIS VEHICLE TO RETRIEVE A WEAPON, WHICH HE FIRED AT THE OTHER PERSON, STRIKING HIM IN THE LEG. STELLY FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
A COUPLE FROM DUSON HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED AS THE LONGEST MARRIED COUPLE IN LOUISIANA. WALLACE AND GLADYS MENARD HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR EIGHTY YEARS. THE MENARD’S CELEBRATED THE RECOGNITION AT THEIR HOME YESTERDAY WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS. THEY WERE PRESENTED A DOCUMENT DURING THE CELEBRATION THAT WAS SIGNED BY GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS.
THERE WAS A SHOOTING LAST NIGHT AT AROUND SIX ON MADELINE STREET IN LAFAYETTE. SEVERAL WITNESSES TOLD POLICE THAT A PERSON SHOT AT ANOTHER PERSON BUT MISSED. HOWEVER, THE SHOOTER DID RUN OVER THE VICTIM WITH HIS VEHICLE. THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES.
A SECOND MAN WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH A DOUBLE SHOOTING SUNDAY IN CLINTON WAS FOUND IN ALLEN PARISH YESTERDAY. MARKELL WOODS WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY NEAR ELTON BY THE U-S MARSHALS SERVICE FUGITIVE TASK FORCE AND THE STATE POLICE. HE WAS BOOKED AS A FUGITIVE AT THE ALLEN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE. WOODS WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE EAST FELICIANA PARISH JAIL ON CHARGES OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER.
THE MAYOR OF HENDERSON IS WARNING RESIDENTS ABOUT POTENTIAL FLOODING OF THE ATCHAFALAYA BASIN. MAYOR SHERBIN COLLETTE TELLS KLFY TV THAT THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AT CAIRO, ILLINOIS IS GOING TO CREST AT 13 FEET ABOVE FLOOD STAGE ON THE TWENTIETH OF THIS MONTH. THAT COMES DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI AND EVENTUALLY REACHES THE ATCHAFALAYA BASIN. CURRENTLY THE ATCHAFALAYA BASIN IS AT THREE FEET ABOVE FLOOD STAGE.
ONE ACADIANA HELD A CELEBRATION LAST NIGHT TO RECOGNIZE THEIR SUCCESSES IN 2018. PRESIDENT AND CEO TROY WAYMAN TELLS THE ADVOCATE THAT THEIR PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES HAVE HELPED BUILD A STRONG FOUNDATION FOR BUSINESSES TO THRIVE, TRANSFORMING THE ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE OF THE REGION. ONE ACADIANA SAYS ITS ACCOMPLISHMENTS LAST YEAR INCLUDED BUSINESS RETENTION AND EXPANSION EFFORTS THAT RESULTED IN 23 MILLION DOLLARS IN CAPITAL INVESTMENT, 282 RETAINED JOBS AND 477 NEW JOBS. ONE ACADIANA SAYS ITS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS HAVE RESULTED IN 75 PROJECTS IN THE PIPELINE THAT COULD REPRESENT OVER TEN THOUSAND NEW JOBS AND NEARLY THREE BILLION DOLLARS IN CAPITAL INVESTMENT.
