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A LAFAYETTE MAN, WHO WAS OUT ON BOND FOR SECOND DEGREE MURDER, WAS ARRESTED BY SCOTT POLICE YESTERDAY FOR SHOOTING ANOTHER MAN. 25-YEAR-OLD TRAVEN SOLOMON WAS OUT ON BOND FOR THE 2015 SLAYING OF DAMIEN CHAMP, WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON BOSSIER STREET IN LAFAYETTE. SOLOMON WAS ARRESTED MONDAY AT HIS PLACE OF BUSINESS IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE AND WAS CHARGED FOR THE SHOOTING OF ROBERT FELIX, WHO WAS KILLED IN HIS FRONT YARD ON WEST WILLOW STREET IN NOVEMBER. HIS BOND WAS SET AT NEARLY 300 THOUSAND DOLLARS.
SULPHUR POLICE ARE INCREASING THEIR PRESENCE ON MAPLEWOOD DRIVE BECAUSE OF RESIDENTS THERE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE TRAFFIC. SERGEANT MATTHEW CHEANEY TELLS KPLC TV THAT TRAFFIC BACKS UP ON MAPLEWOOD AND SOME DRIVERS WILL GET ON SIDE STREETS AND SPEED UP TO BEAT THE LINE. HE SAYS THEY’VE ALSO HAD PROBLEMS WITH 18 WHEELERS AND BIG TRUCKS DRIVING ON THE STREET EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED. THE SULPHUR POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS ISSUED MORE THAN 140 CITATIONS ON MAPLEWOOD DRIVE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.
AN 18-YEAR VETERAN OF THE VERMILLION PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN ARRESTED, ACCUSED OF RAPE, SEXUAL BATTERY AND INDECENT BEHAVIOR WITH A JUVENILE. JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.
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A New Orleans-based company is suing the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry over the agency’s testing of medical marijuana. The Advocate reports Reactwell LLC’s lawsuit filed in Baton Rouge claims its bid to test the crop as an independent laboratory was improperly rejected last year. Marijuana grown by Louisiana’s two approved producers is supposed to be tested by an independent laboratory to ensure the crop’s safety, but the agency says no laboratories were qualified. The lawsuit argues the company was qualified.
THE LAFAYETTE PARISH LIBRARY BOARD MET MONDAY NIGHT TO DECIDE HOW THEY WILL RESPOND TO LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOEL ROBIDEAUX’S PROPOSAL TO TAKE 18 MILLION DOLLARS FROM THEIR RESERVES TO PAY FOR ROADS, BRIDGES AND DRAINAGE. CITY PARISH COUNCIL MEMBER BRUCE CONQUE ATTENDED THE MEETING AND TOLD THEM THAT THE COUNCIL WILL ADDRESS THE ISSUE AT THEIR MARCH TWELFTH MEETING, WHERE THEY WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THEIR CASE. CONQUE OPPOSES ROBIDEAUX’S PROPOSAL AND HAS SUBMITTED HIS OWN PROPOSAL TO TAKE TEN MILLION DOLLARS INSTEAD. HE SAYS THE IDEAL OUTCOME IS THAT THE LIBRARY GET TO KEEP ITS OWN MONEY.
A LAKE CHARLES JURY FOUND DERRICK RYAN SMALL GUILTY OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER YESTERDAY FOR THE SHOOTING DEATH OF JALEN HANDY IN JANUARY OF 2018. SMALL SHOT HANDY TWICE AFTER HANDY HAD STOLEN MARIJUANA FROM HIM. SMALL CLAIMED SELF DEFENSE BUT LEAD PROSECUTOR CHARLES ROBINSON SAYS HANDY, WHO WAS UNARMED, WAS SHOT FROM SIXTY FEET AWAY WHILE RUNNING AWAY FROM SMALL. SENTENCING FOR SMALL WILL TAKE PLACE ON MARCH FIRST.
EMPLOYERS WILL BE LOOKING FOR SKILLED TRADESMAN AT A JOB FAIR BEING HELD TOMORROW AT SOUTH LOUISIANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE’S NEW IBERIA CAMPUS. HALLIBURTON, STERLING AUTOMOTIVE, OMNI ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCHLUMBERGER ARE SOME OF THE COMPANIES THAT WILL BE AT THE JOB FAIR LOOKING FOR NEW EMPLOYEES. THE COMPANIES WILL BE LOOKING TO HIRE WELDERS, HVAC REPAIRMEN, TRUCK DRIVERS, CARPENTERS, EQUIPMENT OPERATORS, LINEMEN, LABORERS AND ELECTRICIANS. THE JOB FAIR WILL TAKE PLACE FROM NINE TO NOON.
THE RACES AND ACES TRUCK STOP CASINO IN ST. MARTINVILLE WAS ROBBED YESTERDAY MORNING. ST. MARTINVILLE POLICE SAY A MAN, WHO WAS AROUND SIX FEET TALL AND 200 POUNDS, WALKED UP TO A SECURITY GUARD AND POINTED AN UNKNOWN OBJECT IN A SOCK OR STOCKING AT HIM. HE THEN WENT TO A CLERK, POINTED THE OBJECT AT HER, SHE GAVE HIM A MONEY SATCHEL AND HE WALKED OUT THE DOOR. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE ROBBERY IS ASKED TO CALL THE ST. MARTINVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT’S INVESTIGATION DIVISION.
