2-14-23
FIRST RESPONDERS SPENT MOST OF MONDAY WORKING THE SCENE OF A CRASH IN DUSON. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS MORE.
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THE OPELOUSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS PUT OUT AN UNUSUAL SOCIAL MEDIA POST FOR PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE HARD FEELINGS FOR THEIR EX-VALENTINE. THEY SAY, IF YOUR FORMER VALENTINE BUYS OR SELLS DRUGS, HAS WARRANTS OR ILLEGAL WEAPONS, THEY WOULD LOVE TO MAKE THEM THEIR VALENTINE THIS YEAR. THEY SAID TO GIVE THEM A CALL WITH THE PERSON’S LOCATION AND THEY WILL MAKE SURE THEY HAVE A VALENTINE’S DAY TO REMEMBER. THEY IMPLIED THEY WOULD PROVIDE THE EX-VALENTINE WITH A BRAND-NEW STERLING SILVER BRACELET, FREE TRANSPORTATION WITH A CHAUFFEUR, SECURE ACCOMODATIONS AS WELL AS DINNER AND DRINKS.
PARENTS FROM CONROE, TEXAS WERE BOOKED INTO THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH JAIL ON FOUR COUNTS OF CRUELTY TO JUVENILES AFTER THEY AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN WERE FOUND LIVING IN DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS INSIDE AN R-V CAMPER. JENNINGS POLICE, AFTER RECEIVING A CALL OF CONCERN FOR A JUVENILE, CONDUCTED A WELFARE CHECK ON THE R-V AT A TRUCK STOP. THERE WAS NO ELECTRICITY, RUNNING WATER OR BEDDING FOR THE CHILDREN AND HUMAN AND ANIMAL FECES WERE FOUND THROUGHOUT THE CAMPER. THE CHILDREN, BETWEEN THE AGES OF TWO AND TEN, WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES.
A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY WAS SHOT LAST NIGHT IN LAFAYETTE. POLICE SPOKESPERSON ROBIN GREEN DID NOT CONFIRM THE LOCATION OF THE SHOOTING. HOWEVER, SHE SAYS OFFICERS FOUND THE TEENAGER INSIDE A PUBLIC HOUSING COMPLEX NEAR CROCKETT AND TWELFTH STREETS. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION.
TWO CHURCH POINT MEN WERE CITED FOR ALLEGED COMMERCIAL FISHING VIOLATIONS IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH. DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES AGENTS RECEIVED A TIP ABOUT TWO MEN USING DIP NETS IN THE UNIVERSITY LAKES IN BATON ROUGE. WHEN AGENTS ARRIVED, THEY FOUND TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CALVIN CHENIER IN POSSESSION OF TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-THREE POUNDS OF SHAD AS WELL AS OTHER FISH. THEY LATER LEARNED SIXTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD CALVIN SIMONEAUX HAD LEFT THE AREA WITH TWO THOUSAND POUNDS OF SHAD, WHICH HE WAS TAKING TO SELL AT FISHERMAN’S COVE IN HENDERSON.
A SULPHUR MAN WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY ADMITTED STEALING A BOAT MOTOR. THE BOAT MOTOR WAS STOLEN FROM WINDMILL LANE IN IOWA LAST MONTH. THE VICTIM TOLD SOMEONE WHO EXPRESSED INTEREST IN THE MOTOR THAT IT WAS NOT FOR SALE AND IT WAS STOLEN A SHORT WHILE LATER. TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD DUSTIN WADE ARRANT WAS BOOKED INTO THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH JAIL ON CHARGES OF THEFT AND SIMPLE BURGLARY.
A LAFAYETTE JURY YESTERDAY UNANIMOUSLY FOUND TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD TAVEON LEARY GUILTY OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. LEARY WAS TWENTY AT THE TIME HE SHOT AND KILLED KENDRICK FLUGENCE JUNIOR. IT WAS LEARNED BY DETECTIVE MARION BOREL THAT THE TWO HAD BEEN IN AN ARGUMENT WHEN LEARY PULLED OUT A GUN AND SHOT FLUGENCE MULTIPLE TIMES. THE SHOOTING HAPPENED ON MARCH TWENTY-FOURTH, TWENTY-NINETEEN, AT THE MON CHATEAU APARTMENTS ON LOUISIANA AVENUE IN LAFAYETTE.
THE TWO LARGEST RICE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE WILL HOLD THEIR JOINT MEMBERSHIP MEETING TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT THE INTERNATIONAL RICE FESTIVAL BUILDING IN CROWLEY. LOUISIANA RICE COUNCIL PRESIDENT ERIC UNKEL AND LOUISIANA RICE GROWERS ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT ALAN LAWSON WILL PROVIDE UPDATES ON THEIR ACTIVITIES. UNKEL, WHO IS A RICE FARMER FROM ALLEN PARISH, SAYS RICE FARMERS WILL LEARN ABOUT PROGRAMS FUNDED BY THE LOUISIANA RICE PROMOTION CHECKOFF. THE EVENT BEGINS AT FOUR WITH A RECEPTION AND TRADE SHOW FOLLOWED BY DINNER AND THE MEETING PROGRAM.
