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A DISPUTE OVER A BILL BETWEEN A DOCTOR AND A MOVING COMPANY LED TO THE DOCTOR BEING THREATENED WITH ARREST BY A LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICER. DOCTOR THREVIA WEST SAID THE BILL WAS FOUR TIMES WHAT SHE AGREED TO AND REFUSED TO PAY, LEADING A&L MOVERS TO CALL THE POLICE. BODY CAM FOOTAGE SHOWED THE OFFICER YELLING AT WEST AND THREATENING TO ARREST HER IF SHE DIDN’T PAY, WHICH SHE EVENTUALLY DID. ATTORNEY RON HALEY CALLED IT EXCESSIVE POLICING BECAUSE, HE SAYS, IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR AN OFFICER TO PLAY JUDGE AND JURY OVER A CIVIL DEBT.
A VILLAGE MEETING IN MORSE GOT HEATED WHEN TWO ALDERMEN ADDED POLICING TO THE AGENDA. THERE WERE COMPLAINTS ABOUT CHIEF OF POLICE JASON COATS AND HIS SUSPENSION OF THE ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF LAST SUMMER. ALSO, COAT’S FATHER-IN-LAW, DALLAS RICHARD, WAS ACCUSED OF IMPERSONATING AN ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTY LAST SUMMER WITH SHERIFF’S STICKERS AND LIGHTS PUT ON A FOUR-WHEELER. ACCORDING TO KLFY TV, RICHARD WAS HEARD MAKING A RACIST REMARK WHEN RESPONDING TO THE ALLEGATION.
A man who was the pilot and attorney for the Calcasieu Parish sheriff’s office and a second person died when their small plane crashed in Cameron parish, apparently during a flying lesson. Cameron Parish Sheriff Ron Johnson tells news agencies that two bodies were removed from the plane that crashed Tuesday evening on a small island near Hackberry. He told The American Press that the plane then submerged. On Wednesday, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso’s voice broke as he told reporters that victim Rock Palermo was the department’s pilot, attorney and friend.
A little-known group meeting out of public sight is advising Gov. John Bel Edwards and state officials in their decisions of who is eligible for Louisiana’s limited supply of coronavirus vaccine. The Vaccine Action Collaborative was established by the state health department. Department spokesperson Aly Neel says the collaborative holds monthly meetings. The group is among similar advisory committees across several states that The Associated Press found is holding closed-door meetings that help sway critical decision-making on the vaccines.
COVID NINETEEN HOSPITALIZATIONS WENT DOWN BY FIFTY-FOUR IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THAT PUTS THE TOTAL BELOW FOURTEEN HUNDRED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY TWO MONTHS. THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED BY NINE. THERE WERE FORTY-SIX MORE DEATHS STATEWIDE. LOUISIANA HAD ONE THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED THIRTY NEW CONFIRMED CASES, PUSHING THE TOTAL PAST THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE THOUSAND.
ACADIANA REPORTED FIVE MORE COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS…TWO IN ST. LANDRY PARISH AND THE REMAINING THREE IN LAFAYETTE, ST. MARTIN AND ST. MARY PARISHES. THERE WAS ONE MORE DEATH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA WHICH WAS IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH. ACADIANA HAD ONE HUNDRED FORTY-SIX NEW CONFIRMED CASES INCLUDING SIXTY-FIVE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. THERE WERE FIFTY-TWO NEW CASES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA MOST OF WHICH WERE IN CALCASIEU PARISH, WITH FORTY-ONE.
A LAFAYETTE ATTORNEY HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE YESTERDAY TO DENY CHARGES OF RAPE CONNECTED TO HIS TIME AS A BOY SCOUT LEADER. FIFTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD BARRY ROZAS WAS CHARGED YESTERDAY WITH FIRST DEGREE RAPE AND RELEASED ON A TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND. ROZAS SAYS THERE WERE NO CIRCUMSTANCES THAT COULD BE MISCONSTRUED AS INAPPROPRIATE DURING ALL HIS YEARS AS SCOUT LEADER. LAST FALL THE EVANGELINE COUNCIL LEARNED OF TWENTY-EIGHT COMPLAINTS WHILE THE BOY SCOUTS WERE GOING THROUGH THE BANKRUPTCY PROCESS, AND THEY WERE TURNED OVER TO THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE, SO THERE MAY BE MORE ARRESTS COMING.
THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS WARNING PARENTS THAT CANDY LACED WITH T-H-C WAS RECENTLY FOUND IN THE AREA. GERALD GRUENIG REPORTS.
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