2-21-23
NO ONE WAS INJURED AFTER A HOME AT VERLINE AND LANGLEY DRIVE, NEAR CHEMIN METARIE, WAS SHOT UP AT AROUND FOUR A-M MONDAY. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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MORGAN CITY POLICE ARRESTED A WOMAN OVER THE WEEKEND WHEN THEY FOUND MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED PILLS IN HER VEHICLE. FORTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD HERMANA GATEWOOD OF MORGAN CITY WAS PULLED OVER FOR FAILING TO STOP AT A STOP SIGN AND POLICE SAW PILLS SCATTERED AROUND HER CAR. POLICE FIELD TESTED THE PILLS AND FOUND THE PRESENCE OF FENTANYL IN THEM. GATEWOOD WAS BOOKED INTO THE MORGAN CITY JAIL ON SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING POSSESSION WITH THE INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE SCHEDULE TWO CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES, AND HER BOND WAS SET AT OVER TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
A TEXAS MAN FACES SEVERAL CHARGES FOR ALLEGEDLY HARVESTING AND SELLING SEAFOOD IN LOUISIANA WITH FRAUDULENT LICENSES. THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES SAYS FIFTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD JIMMY DYSON JUNIOR OF NACOGDOCHES WAS PROHIBITED FROM GETTING LOUISIANA COMMERCIAL LICENSES BUT OBTAINED THEM BY CLAIMING TO BE SOMEONE ELSE. DYSON REPORTEDLY CAUGHT AND SOLD SEAFOOD IN CAMERON AND EAST BATON ROUGE PARISHES NUMEROUS TIMES THROUGHOUT TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE. HE FACES JAIL TIME AND FINES ON MANY CHARGES AND COULD BE FORCED TO MAKE RESTITUTION FOR THE ILLEGALLY HARVESTED AND SOLD SEAFOOD, WHICH HAS A REPLACEMENT VALUE OF OVER FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
TWO PEDESTRIANS WERE HIT BY A CAR AT AROUND TWELVE-TWENTY-FIVE SUNDAY MORNING IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE. BOTH WERE INJURED, ONE SERIOUSLY. PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER SERGEANT ROBIN GREEN SAYS THE PEDESTRIANS WERE CITED FOR CROSSING THE STREET IN A NON-CROSS WALK AREA. SHE SAYS THE DRIVER HAD THE RIGHT OF WAY WHEN THE PEDESTRIANS WALKED IN FRONT OF HIM.
THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS LOOKING FOR A MURDER SUSPECT. NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD CAIDEN SHERIDAN WAS REPORTEDLY SEEN BY A WITNESS SHOOTING SOMEONE AT A RESIDENCE IN THE THIRTY-FOUR-HUNDRED BLOCK OF GENERAL PATTON STREET AND LEAVING ON FOOT. THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS AN ACTIVE ARREST WARRANT FOR SHERIDAN FOR SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. ANYONE WHO KNOWS WERE SHERIDAN IS LOCATED IS ASKED TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS AT THREE-SIX-FOUR-TIPS.
A SHELTER-IN-PLACE ORDER HAS BEEN LIFTED IN JENNINGS AFTER A GAS LEAK YESTERDAY NEAR SECOND AND NORTH STATE STREETS. CENTERPOINT ENERGY CREWS RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AFTER ANOTHER UTILITY COMPANY RUPTURED A GAS MAIN. JENNINGS FIRE CHIEF ASHLEY NAVARRE SAYS THE GAS LINE HAS BEEN CONTAINED. HE SAYS IT IS SAFE FOR RESIDENTS TO USE THEIR H-VAC SYSTEMS.
TOTAL RETAIL SALES IN LAFAYETTE PARISH FOR TWENTY-TWENTY-TWO REACHED EIGHT-POINT-TWO BILLION, WHICH WAS SIX-POINT-SIX PERCENT HIGHER THAN THE PREVIOUS YEAR, ACCORDING TO DATA FROM THE LAFAYETTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. IT’S THE THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR THAT SALES HAVE REACHED THEIR HIGHEST TOTAL ON RECORD. THE BIGGEST INCREASES IN SPENDING FOR LAST YEAR WERE IN CAR REPAIRS, BUILDING CONSTRUCTION, MEN’S CLOTHING, BAKERIES AND MEAT MARKETS. SALES IN DECEMBER WERE JUST UNDER EIGHT HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS, A FOUR-POINT-EIGHT-FIVE PERCENT INCREASE COMPARED TO ONE YEAR PREVIOUS.
THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH RECYCLING CENTERS ARE HOSTING A HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE DAY FOR MARCH FOURTH. BETWEEN EIGHT A-M AND NOON, SAINT LANDRY PARISH RESIDENTS CAN BRING ALL SORTS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE TO TWO LOCATIONS: TWENTY-SEVENTEEN WEST LANDRY STREET IN OPELOUSAS AND FOUR-FIFTY NORTH C-C DUSON STREET IN EUNICE. PARTICIPANTS MUST SHOW PROOF OF RESIDENCY. THEY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING LARGE QUANTITIES FROM BUSINESSES, FARMS OR COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS.
