2-22-19
LAFAYETTE PARISH VOTERS MAY HAVE TO VOTE AGAIN ON A SPLIT OF THE CITY PARISH COUNCIL. LAST DECEMBER, VOTERS APPROVED SEPERATING THE COUNCIL INTO SEPARATE BODIES AND THE FIRST ELECTION FOR THE NEW COUNCILS WAS SET TO TAKE PLACE THIS FALL. HOWEVER, THE PARISH REGISTRAR OF VOTERS CHARLENE MEAUX MENARD FOUND PROBLEMS WITH THE DISTRICT MAPS THAT WERE VOTED ON AND SECRETARY OF STATE KYLE AROIN TOLD MAYOR PRESIDENT JOEL ROBIDEAUX THAT THE MATTER MUST GO BACK TO A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE. ARDOIN WILL HOLD A MEETING WITH CITY PARISH OFFICIALS IN HIS OFFICE MONDAY MORNING TO DISCUSS THE ISSUE.
A MAN WHO WAS SEEN WALKING THROUGH YARDS AND LOOKING INTO HOMES IN A SULPHUR NEIGHBORHOOD WAS LATER ARRESTED WEARING A GORILLA COSTUME. THE MAN, LATER IDENTIFIED AS JEREMIE MORAN, RAN WHEN HE SPOTTED POLICE AND WENT INTO A RESIDENCE. HE WAS FOUND WEARING THE GORILLA COSTUME AND HIDING UNDER A MATTRESS. HE FACES NUMEROUS CHARGES INCLUDING RESISTING ARREST WITH FORCE OR VIOLENCE, POSSESSION OF METHAMPHETAMINE AND WEARING A MASK OR HOOD IN A PUBLIC PLACE, WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW EXCEPT FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES OR HOLIDAYS.
A LLAMA, SHOT BY ITS OWNER IN ST. LANDRY PARISH LAST WEEK, WILL BE MOVED TO THE ANIMAL CONTROL SHELTER IN OPELOUSAS TODAY. THE OWNER, MADELINE BOURGEOIS OF OPELOUSAS, HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH CRUELTY TO AN ANIMAL. SHE CLAIMS SHE SHOT THE LLAMA, NAMED EARL, AFTER HE ATTACKED HER, BUT SHERIFF BOBBY GUIDROZ SAYS SHE WAS SAFELY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF A FENCE WHEN SHE SHOT HIM. EARL HAS THREE BULLETS LODGED IN HIS BODY, INCLUDING ONE IN THE NECK, AND HAS RECEIVED TREATMENT FROM L-S-U LARGE ANIMAL VETERINARY SERVICES.
Entergy Corporation has been approved to buy solar power from a 50-megawatt power plant set to be built near Port Allen. The Advocate reports the state Public Service Commission on Thursday approved a 20-year agreement between Entergy and the plant owner, Arizona-based Eagle Solar Group. The agreement is expected to save the utility giant’s customers a total of $29 million over the length of the contract. Entergy says construction on the plant is set to start in the next few months and end in 2020.
SOME PEOPLE ARE QUESTIONING THE ARREST OF A WOMAN WHO POSTED VIDEO OF A FIGHT AT ACADIANA HIGH SCHOOL. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS MADE AN ARREST IN CONNECTION WITH THE DECEMBER BURGLARY OF A HOME ON L-A 102 IN JENNINGS. INFORMATION FROM WITNESSES LED THEM TO ISSUE AN ARREST WARRANT FOR 28-YEAR-OLD JACOLDY JAMES FOX OF LAFAYETTE. HE HAS BEEN BOOKED INTO THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH JAIL FOR SIMPLE CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO PROPERTY, THEFT, SIMPLE BURGLARY AND CRIMINAL TRESPASS. DEPUTIES SAY MORE ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED AS THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.
AN ALLEGED DRUG DEALER FROM IBERIA PARISH HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOLLOWING A JOINT INVESTIGATION BY THE IBERIA AND ST. MARY PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENTS. SIDNEY BERGERON WAS PULLED OVER BY DEPUTIES IN HIS VEHICLE AND THEY CONDUCTED A SEARCH WHICH LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF ILLEGAL DRUGS AS WELL AS A PISTOL AND MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH. THE DEPUTIES THEN GOT A SEARCH WARRANT FOR BERGERON’S HOUSE WHERE MORE DRUGS, DRUG PARAPHERNALIA AND WEAPONS WERE FOUND. THE STREET VALUE OF THE DRUGS THAT WERE SEIZED CAME TO ABOUT FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Louisiana’s health department has notified tens of thousands of Medicaid recipients that they could be booted from the program. That’s because a newly used computer check found they earn too much money to receive the taxpayer-financed health coverage. Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration didn’t announce when it sent more than 37,000 letters to Medicaid enrollees around the state last week. Medicaid coverage will end by March 31 for those who can’t prove they meet the income criteria.
