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NEW IBERIA POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF A HOMOCIDE VICTIM. NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD MADSION OLIVIER OF NEW IBERIA WAS FOUND SHOT TO DEATH IN A VEHICLE, LOCATED IN THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOCK OF CALHOUN STREET AT AROUND SIX P-M LAST NIGHT. A SUSPECT IS STILL AT LARGE. AN INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.
A LAFAYETTE ATTORNEY TURNED HIMSELF INTO ACADIA PARISH AUTHORITIES FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING ALMOST THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM A FORMER CLIENT. THE CLIENT GAVE THE MONEY TO ATTORNEY JADE ANDRUS WHEN HE HIRED HIM TO CLOSE ON A PROPERTY IN CROWLEY. THE CLIENT FOUND OUT THE MONEY HAD NOT BEEN USED FOR CLOSING COSTS AND FILED A POLICE REPORT WHEN ANDRUS WOULD NOT RETURN MULTIPLE CALLS. ANDRUS, WHO FACES A FELONY THEFT CHARGE, WAS RELEASED AFTER POSTING A FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND.
Louisiana is one step closer to joining the list of states that allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit. Republican lawmakers advanced legislation Thursday during a special session that was called to address violent crime. Legislators also greenlighted a bill that would provide a level of immunity from civil liability for someone who uses a concealed firearm to shoot a person in self-defense. The Senate approved both measures on party-line votes, sending them to the House, where the GOP holds a two-thirds supermajority.
THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD HAS DECIDED AGAINST GOING TO A FOUR DAY SCHOOL WEEK. THE BOARD VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO MAINTAIN THE FIVE-DAY SCHOOL WEEK. MANY PARENTS SPOKE OUT AGAINST THE PROPOSAL. ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT BEN OUSTALET SAYS MANY PARENTS WORK AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A BURDEN TO FIND SUPERVISION FOR KIDS ON THE EXTRA DAY OFF.
A FIFTH GRADER FROM CHURCH POINT DIED IN A FOUR-WHEELER ACCIDENT WEDNESDAY NIGHT. KADN TV SAYS TEN-YEAR-OLD COLE STANFORD WAS INJURED IN THE ACCIDENT JUST BEFORE SEVEN P-M AND LATER DIED AT THE HOSPITAL. HE ATTENDED OUR MOTHER OF PEACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN CHURCH POINT. THE ACCIDENT REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
THE WIFE OF A MAN, WHO WENT MISSING ON SEPTEMBER TENTH, IS PUTTING UP BILLBOARD ADVERTISEMENTS AROUND LAFAYETTE IN AN EFFORT TO FIND HIM. FIFTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD WILLIAM DASPIT JUNIOR TOOK A MOTORCYCLE TO CHECK OUT HIS PROPERTY IN COTEAU HOLMES, AND HIS WRECKED BIKE WAS FOUND THE NEXT MORNING IN A DITCH ABOUT A HUNDRED YARDS FROM HIS HOME. HIS WIFE, LARA VERGENAL, BELIEVES A STRANGER MAY HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF HER HUSBAND IN HIS WEAKENED STATE AND KIDNAPPED HIM. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON DASPIT’S WHEREABOUTS IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE.
FERAL HOGS CAUSE MORE THAN NINETY MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF DAMAGE TO LOUISIANA CROPS EACH YEAR. IN A SURVEY BY THE U-S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, EIGHTY-SEVEN PERCENT OF LOUISIANA FARMERS SAY PIG SIGHTINGS AND DAMAGE HAVE GROWN SINCE TWENTY-TWENTY. CURRENT ESTIMATES PUT LOUISANA’S FERAL HOG POPULATION AT AROUND NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND, LARGER THAN THE COMBINED POPULATIONS OF LAFAYETTE, BATON ROUGE AND NEW ORLEANS. MICHAEL SALASSI, AN ECONOMIST WITH THE L-S-U AGCENTER, SAYS SEVENTY PERCENT OF THE POPULATION NEEDS TO BE KILLED EACH YEAR JUST TO KEEP IT LEVEL, BUT CURRENTLY HUNTERS ONLY MANAGE TO KILL ABOUT A THIRD OF THE POPULATION EACH YEAR.
A CHURCH POINT MAN, WANTED FOR A NOVEMBER HOMOCIDE, WAS ARRESTED WEDNESDAY. QUINCY MOUTON FACES SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND HOME INVASION AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. THE HOMOCIDE HAPPENED NOVEMBER TWENTY-SECOND IN THE SIX HUNDRED BLOCK OF MARTIN LUTHER KING DRIVE IN CHURCH POINT. THE VICTIM WAS DARYL MARCUS LEWIS.
