2-24-23
Friday, February 24, 2023
AUTHORITIES IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH ARE SEARCHING FOR AN INMATE WHO ESCAPED THURSDAY AFTERNOON. GERALD GRUENIG HAS THE DETAILS.
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LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED A SUSPECT IN A HIT AND RUN INTO THE PATHWAY CHURCH ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY ELEVENTH. THE CHURCH WAS HEAVILY DAMAGED WHEN HIT BY A VEHICLE AND THE DRIVER FLED THE SCENE BEFORE POLICE ARRIVED. THE ALLEGED DRIVER, TWENTY-YEAR-OLD ISRAEL OROZCO OF LAFAYETTE, HAS TWO OUTSTANDING WARRANTS FOR HIT AND RUN DRIVING AND IMPROPER LANE USAGE. ANYONE WHO KNOWS THE WHEREABOUTS OF OROZCO IS ASKED TO CALL LAFAYETTE CRIME STOPPERS AT TWO-THREE-TWO-TIPS.
TWO PEOPLE FROM SULPHUR WERE ARRESTED IN LAKE CHARLES FOR CRUELTY TO A JUVENILE AND DRUG POSSESSION CHARGES. DETECTIVES WITH THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE WERE CALLED AFTER A FIVE-YEAR-OLD GIRLWAS FOUND TO HAVE LARGE BRUISING ON THE BUTTOCKS AND ON HER FACE AND EYELIDS. THIRTY-YEAR-OLD JOHN BAHAM (BOM) WAS DETERMINED TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ABUSE AND INVESTIGATORS FOUND METH AND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA IN THE HOME. THIRTY-YEAR-OLD KELLIE TURNER WAS ARRESTED AS WELL WHEN IT WAS LEARNED SHE ALLEGEDLY WITNESSED THE ABUSE AND FAILED TO REPORT IT TO POLICE.
ABBEVILLE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AN INCREASE IN CATALYTIC CONVERTER THEFTS AT THE CHRIS CRUSTA MEMORIAL AIRPORT. POLICE CHIEF MIKE HARDY TELLS KLFY TV THAT WORKERS, COMING IN FROM OFFSHORE, GO TO THEIR CARS AND, WHEN THEY START THEM, REALIZE THE CATALYTIC CONVERTER HAS BEEN STOLEN. HE SAYS IT’S QUICK MONEY FOR THIEVES, WHO CAN SLIDE UNDER THE VEHICLE, CUT THE CATALYTIC CONVERTER AND BE OUT IN LESS THAN A MINUTE. HARDY SAYS THE THEFTS ARE HAPPENING EITHER BEFORE DAWN OR LATE AT NIGHT.
A LAFAYETTE MAN WILL BE SENTENCED THIS AFTERNOON FOR HIS ROLE IN THE JANUARY SIXTH, TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE CAPITOL RIOT. FIFTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD VAUGHN GORDON PLED GUILTY TO A MISDEMEANOR CHARGE OF PARADING, DEMONSTRATING OR PICKETING IN A CAPITOL BUILDING. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS ARE ASKING FOR A THIRTY DAY SENTENCE AS WELL AS THREE YEARS PROBATION, SIXTY HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE AND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS RESTITUTION. GORDON IS THE FIRST PERSON FROM LOUISIANA TO PLEAD GUILTY TO A CHARGE RELATED TO THE CAPITOL RIOT.
A JENNINGS MAN WAS ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY PUNCHING HIS GIRLFRIEND IN THE FACE MULTIPLE TIMES. THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO A CALL ABOUT A DISTURBANCE AT THE BUDGET INN ON FEBRUARY NINETEENTH. THE GIRLFRIEND TOLD POLICE THAT THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD STEPHEN JAMES EUGENE STRUCK HER IN FRONT OF CHILDREN. EUGENE WAS BOOKED INTO THE PARISH JAIL ON CHARGES OF DOMESTIC ABUSE, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AND DOMESTIC BATTERY ABUSE WITH CHILD ENDANGERMENT.
POLICE IN NEW IBERIA ARE SEARCHING FOR A SUSPECT IN A SHOOTING. THE SHOOTING INCIDENT BEGAN IN THE PARISH AND ENDED ON CENTER AND SAINT PETER STREETS. THERE WAS ONE VICTIM WHO WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. NO FURTHER DETAILS HAVE BEEN RELEASED.
A LAFAYETTE MAN WAS SENTENCED TO MORE THAN NINE YEARS IN PRISON FOR POSSESSION OF A STOLEN GUN. THE U-S ATTORNEY’S OFFICE SAYS, IN SEPTEMBER OF TWENTY-SEVENTEEN, THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD BERNELL GEORGE OF LAFAYETTE WAS FOUND IN POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA AND A FORTY- CALIBER SMITH AND WESSON GUN WITH ELEVEN ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION IN THE MAGAZINE. THE GUN HAD BEEN STOLEN FROM IBERIA PARISH. THE U-S ATTORNEY’S OFFICE SAYS GEORGE ADMITTED TO BUYING THE STOLEN GUN OFF THE STREET.
