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2-4-20

A D-O-T-D WORKER WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A DRIVER ON INTERSTATE 49 NEAR CARENCRO.  CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.

 

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A WOMAN WAS SHOT IN THE WALMART PARKING LOT IN BREAUX BRIDGE LAST NIGHT AT AROUND EIGHT.  THE WOMAN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR EMERGENCY SURGERY.  POLICE CHIEF ROLLIE CANTU SAYS ANOTHER WOMAN HAS BEEN DETAINED AS A SUSPECT.  IT IS NOT CLEAR YET WHAT LED UP TO THE SHOOTING.

 

A DEQUINCY WOMAN AND HER UNCLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR SETTING HER CAR ON FIRE TO COLLECT THE INSURANCE.  THE FIELDS FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUND A FORD FIESTA BURNED AND ABANDONED THURSDAY NIGHT IN SINGER.  ACCORDING TO STATE FIRE MARSHAL DEPUTIES, TWENTY-YEAR-OLD HEAVEN ROYER ADMITTED ASKING HER UNCLE, 40-YEAR-OLD DEREK SMITH, TO HELP FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS WRONG WITH HER CAR.  AFTER FINDING OUT THE REPAIRS WOULD BE COSTLY, SHE WITNESSED SMITH SET THE CAR ON FIRE.

 

A NEW DEADLY DRUG KNOWN AS GRAY DEATH HAS BEEN FOUND IN LOUISIANA FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THE FIRST SAMPLE WAS RECOVERED FROM SUSPECTS FROM LAKE CHARLES WHO WERE TRAVELING THROUGH ST. MARY PARISH.  THE GRAY DEATH IS TEN THOUSAND TIMES MORE POTENT THAN MORPHINE AND YOU COULD DIE JUST BY TOUCHING IT.  IT LOOKS LIKE CONCRETE.  AUTHORITIES SAY THAT IF YOU FIND IT, YOU SHOULD NOT TOUCH IT BUT REPORT IT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT.

 

OVERALL CRIME STATISTICS DECREASED BY SEVEN PERCENT IN LAFAYETTE LAST YEAR COMPARED TO 2018.  ACCORDING TO STATISTICS RELEASED BY THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THERE WERE 449 FEWER CRIMES IN THE CITY LAST YEAR.  THERE WERE TWO AREAS THAT SAW AN INCREASE.  THERE WERE FOURTEEN HOMOCIDES, UP FROM NINE IN 2018, AND THE NUMBER OF BURGLARIES INCREASED BY THIRTEEN, A ONE PERCENT INCREASE.

 

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD TODAY FOR A FORMER RAYNE POLICE CHIEF.  GEORGE MELANCON SENIOR DIED SUNDAY AT THE AGE OF 81.  HE SERVED AS RAYNE POLICE CHIEF FROM 1970 TO 1978 AND AGAIN FROM 1998 TO 2006.  A MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL WILL BE HELD THIS AFTERNOON BEGINNING AT TWO AT ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH IN RAYNE.

 

FIFTY-ONE CADETS GRADUATED LAST FRIDAY AND HAVE JOINED THE RANKS OF THE LOUISIANA STATE POLICE.  SIX HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED TO TROOP D IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, AND THEY ARE ALL FROM THE AREA.  TROOPER DEREK SENEGAL TELLS KPLC TV THEY ARE A WELCOME SIGHT, ESPECIALLY WITH A NUMBER OF OLDER GUYS NEARING RETIREMENT.  HE SAYS THE SIX WILL UNDERGO A TEN TO FOURTEEN WEEK FIELD TRAINING PROGRAM, WHERE THEY WILL BE TEAMED WITH A VETERAN TROOPER.

 

LOUISIANA’S PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY IS SATURDAY, APRIL FOURTH.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.

 

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