2-17-23
A MOTHER AND SON WERE ARRESTED IN NEW IBERIA ON DRUG AND WEAPONS CHARGES. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS MORE.
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THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT AND REPUBLIC SERVICES IS HOSTING A DEBRIS DROP-OFF DAY IN ONE MONTH. ITS’S DESIGNED TO GET RID OF ITEMS THAT AREN’T TYPICALLY PICKED UP CURBSIDE OR ARE TOO LARGE FOR THE TRASH. IT TAKES PLACE SATURDAY, MARCH EIGHTEENTH, FROM EIGHT TO NOON AT BROWN PARK ON PONT DES MOUTON/AND AT THE ROBICHEAUX RECREATION CENTER ON ERASTE LANDRY. FOR A LIST OF ACCEPTABLE AND UNACCEPTABLE ITEMS, GO TO LAFAYETTE L-A-DOT-GOV AND CLICK ON GOVERNMENT DIRECTORY AND THEN PUBLIC WORKS.
A JENNINGS MAN WAS ARRESTED AFTER A MONTH-LONG NARCOTICS INVESTIGATION THAT BEGAN WITH THE LAKE ARTHUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHICH THE VERMILLION PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE JOINED. FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD CLAUDE MCDOWELL WAS CHARGED WITH DISTRIBUTION OF HEROIN AND TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING DRUG PROCEEDS. A SEARCH WARRANT WAS EXECUTED AT A LOCATION IN THE ABBEVILLE CITY LIMITS/WHICH WAS IDENTIFIED AS A STASH LOCATION FROM INFORMATION DISCOVERED DURING THE INVESTIGATION. THEY FOUND MORE THAN SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF DRUG PROCEEDS THERE.
THE STATE OF LOUISIANA IS DROPPING LAWSUITS AGAINST THOUSANDS OF HOMEOWNERS/ACCUSED OF MISSPENDING GRANTS TO ELEVATE THEIR HOMES AFTER HURRICANES KATRINA AND RITA. OFFICIALS SAY THAT THOUSANDS OF HOMEOWNERS HAD INSTEAD USED THE GRANTS FOR REPAIRS. IN AN EFFORT TO RECOUP GRANTS THAT HADN’T BEEN SPENT PROPERLY, THE STATE SUED ABOUT 3.500 HOMEOWNERS – SEEKING REPAYMENT OF $103 MILLION. IN ADDITION, U.S. REP. TROY CARTER SAYS AFTER 17 YEARS, THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT IS CLOSING OUT THE $10 BILLION ROAD HOME PROGRAM, THE LARGEST HOUSING RECOVERY EFFORT IN U.S. HISTORY.
THREE IMMATES AT THE EVANGELING PARISH JAIL HAVE BEEN FOUND RSPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING DRUGS INTO THE JAIL. SHERIFF CHARLES GUILLORY SAYS THE INMATES HAVE CONTACTS THAT BRING DRUGS AND PUT THEM IN VARIOUS AREAS AROUND THE COURTHOUE, WHEN TRUSTEES WOULD COME AND EMPTY THE TRASH, THEY WOULD PICK UP THE DRUGS AND HIDE THEM ON THEIR PERSONS. GUILLORY SAYS HE’S WORKING WITH WARDEN CONNIE ZERANGUE TO IMPROVE SEARCHES ON INMATES AS THEY ENTER AND EXIT THE JAIL
THE WEST BATON ROUGE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS COMFIRMED THE IDENTITY FO A BODY THAT WAS FOUND LAST SUNDAY MORNING/AT THE SUPER LUCKY LOUIE’S TRUCK STOP OFF OF HIGHWAY ONE-NINETY. IT WAS DETERMINED THE BODY WAS FIFTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD SHEILA BAKER OF LAFAYETTE. SHE WAS REPORTED MISSING BY THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND HER FAMILY HAD LAST SEEN HER ON CHRISTMAS DAY. THE CAUSE OF DEATH IS PENDING BUT FOUL PLAY IS NOT SUSPECTED.
LAKE CHARLES CITY OFFICIALS ARE WORKING TOWARDS DEMOLITION OF THE PLACE VENDOME APARTMENT COMPLEX, WHICH IS VACANT. YESTERDAY MORNING FIREFIGHTERS WENT OUT TO THE COMPLEX TO PUT OUT A FIRE. THIS IS THE SEVENTH FIRE AT THE BUILDING IN LESS THAN TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS. THERE WAS ALSO A FIRE LAST SATURDAY AT THE COMPLEX, LOCATED ON PREJEAN STREET.
A CROWLEY MAN, WHO, IN JUNE OF TWENTY-TWENTY, WAS FOUND TO BE IN POSSESSION OF MORE THAT TWENTY-EIGHT GRAMS OF HERION DURING A TRAFFIC STOP, WAS SENTENCED TO MORE THAT THREE YEARS IN PRISON. THE U-S ATTORNEY’S OFFICE FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA SAYS/ THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD TRAVIS TRENTEL THORNE WAS PULLED OVER BY AN ACAIDA PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTY IN JUNE OF TWENTY-TWENTY/AND WAS FOUND WITH THE HERION AND A SILVER SCALE WITH HERION RESIDUE. HE ADMITTED THE HEROIN WAS HIS AND HE INTENDED TO SELL IT. HE PLED GUILTY IN NOVEMBER TO POSSESSION WITH THE INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE HEROIN.
