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A JUVENILE IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER A SHOOTING IN OPELOUSAS YESTERDAY. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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The Louisiana Ethics Board has filed charges against Oberlin Police Chief Grady Haynes for getting paid to write Local Agency Compensated Enforcement tickets while on duty. KPLC-TV reports the LACE program allows off-duty officers to make extra money but the board says it’s unethical for the chief to participate. Police write LACE tickets when they’re off duty and get $15 an hour. But the ethics charges indicate Haynes can’t receive such pay, because as chief, he’s on-duty 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
THE NEW POLICE CHIEF FOR CARENCRO SAYS HE HAS PLANS TO IMPROVE THE DEPARTMENT. DAVID ANDERSON BECAME THE INTERIM POLICE CHIEF AFTER FORMER CHIEF CARLOS STOUT LEFT TO BECOME DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND ANDERSON HAD THE INTERIM TAG REMOVED WHEN NOBODY ELSE QUALIFIED FOR THE MARCH ELECTION. ANDERSON TELLS KATC TV THAT HE WANTS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PATROLMEN PER SHIFT FROM THE CURRENT THREE TO FIVE. HE ALSO SAYS HE WANTS TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY BY MEETING WITH NEIGHBORHOODS AND NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH GROUPS IN CARENCRO.
LSU will begin taking offers from contractors to produce marijuana for the state for medical purposes. The marijuana-growing operation is estimated to cost $10 million and will be paid for by the contractor. LSU professor Dr. Ted Gauthier tells WBRZ-TV there’s been much interest from people in and out of state. He says he expects there will be about 10 finalists to choose from.
A St. Mary Parish tax preparer is accused in a tax fraud scheme that has cost Louisiana tax payers an estimated $55,000. Officials say Lakesha Navy, of Baldwin, allegedly filed hundreds of state income tax returns containing fabricated business losses that improperly reduced her clients’ taxable income, leading in many cases to illegally inflated tax refunds. State tax auditors noticed a suspicious pattern with returns filed in 2014 and 2015. Investigators determined that many of her clients didn’t claim any business losses and that some did not own businesses at all.
WELSH POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A MAN WHO ROBBED AN EXXON GAS STATION ON NORTH ADAMS STREET SATURDAY MORNING AT AROUND 11:15. POLICE SAY A LIGHT SKINNED BLACK MAN, WHO WAS AROUND 5-11 TO SIX FEET TALL, WITH A RECEDING HAIR LINE, HELD A CASHIER AT GUNPOINT WHILE HE TOOK MONEY FROM A CASH REGISTER. HE WAS SEEN LEAVING IN A SILVER DODGE CHARGER AND SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWED HIM HEADING EASTBOUND ON I-TEN. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE CRIME IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE WELSH POLICE DEPARTMENT.
A WOMAN CRASHED HER CAR INTO THE FAMILY DOLLAR STORE IN CROWLEY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THE WOMAN WAS NOT INJURED AND THE CRASH CAUSED MINIMUM DAMAGE TO HER VEHICLE. THE STORE HAS A TEMPORARY FIX IN PLACE AND REMAINS OPEN FOR BUSINESS. A POLICE SPOKESMAN TOLD KATC TV NEWS THAT NO CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED AND THERE’S NO WORD ON WHY THE WOMAN LOST CONTROL OF HER VEHICLE.
Gov. John Bel Edwards has released the parameters for his 10-day, deficit-closing special session. The governor’s limited the short gathering for lawmakers to making cuts, moving dollars among accounts, tapping into the “rainy day” fund and considering fee hikes. No tax bills can be debated in the session that begins Feb. 13 at 6:30 p.m. Edwards is bringing the Legislature back to Baton Rouge to eliminate a $304 million deficit.
