2-7-20
LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY AND CITY PARISH ATTORNEY GREG LOGAN HAVE ASKED THE STATE POLICE TO STEP IN AND INVESTIGATE
L-U-S AND L-U-S FIBER OVER ALLEGATIONS THAT COMPUTER FILES WERE DELETED POSSIBLY TO COVER UP A CRIME. FOUR L-U-S EMPLOYEES WHO ALLEGEDLY HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE COVER UP HAVE BEEN PLACED ON LEAVE. LOGAN SAYS FORMER DIRECTOR TERRY HUVAL ALSO HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE SITUATION. GUILLORY, ON HIS WEEKLY RADIO SHOW YESTERDAY, SAID HE HOPES THEY ARE CLEARED BY THE INVESTIGATION, BUT, IF THERE WAS A CRIME, HE WANTS THE TRUTH TO COME OUT.
A PORT BARRE MAN WHO WENT ON A MASSIVE CRIME SPREE IN AUGUST OF 2017 WAS SENTENCED TO TWENTY YEARS IN PRISON. IN THE OVERNIGHT HOURS OF AUGUST TWENTIETH, 28-YEAR-OLD JON MICHAEL MAULDWIN CRASHED HIS VEHICLE INTO TWO PORT BARRE HOMES, KIDNAPPED A MAN, SHOT AT AND ROBBED A CONVENIENCE STORE CLERK AND BROKE INTO A HOME, WHERE HE ATTEMPTED TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT TWO WOMEN. IN SEPTEMBER, MAULDWIN PLED GUILTY TO CHARGES OF FEDERAL CARJACKING AND USING, CARRYING AND POSSESSING A FIREARM DURING A CRIME OF VIOLENCE. IN ADDITION TO THE JAIL SENTENCE, MAULDWIN WILL HAVE TO UNDERGO FIVE YEARS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE.
THE LOUISIANA OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH IS INVESTIGATING AN OUTBREAK OF NOROVIRUS. MEGAN KELLY HAS MORE.
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Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration is unveiling a multibillion-dollar Louisiana budget proposal to lawmakers. Today’s planned release of the Democratic governor’s spending recommendations for the financial year that starts July 1 will kick off months of budget negotiations between Edwards and the majority-GOP Legislature. Edwards’ recommendations will propose boosting education financing and using money that isn’t yet available to spend under the law. It includes $103 million from income projections that aren’t included in Louisiana’s official revenue forecast because the Legislature’s new Republican leaders wouldn’t adopt them.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING IN A HOME ON EDISON STREET AT AROUND THREE YESTERDAY MORNING. CORPORAL BRIDGETTE DUGAS SAYS A MAN WAS SHOT BUT HIS INJURIES WERE NOT LIFE THREATENING. POLICE ARE TRYING TO IDENTIFY THE SHOOTER. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CALL LAFAYETTE CRIME STOPPERS AT 232-TIPS.
THE CHURCH POINT POLICE DEPARTMENT RECEIVED A THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED DOLLAR GRANT FROM ENBRIDGE PIPELINE. THE MONEY WILL BE USED TO PURCHASE TRAUMA KITS FOR POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS. A FACEBOOK POST FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THE KITS WILL HELP OFFICERS RESPONDING TO A CRITICAL INCIDENT SITUATION. IT WILL ALLOW THE OFFICERS TO PROVIDE MINOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE UNTIL MEDICAL RESPONDERS ARRIVE.
CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARRESTED A VINTON WOMAN WHO ALLEGEDLY INVADED THE LAKE CHARLES HOME OF AN ELDERLY COUPLE. NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD MOESHAY JANICE IS ACCUSED OF PUSHING HER WAY INTO A HOME NEAR L-A FOURTEEN AND EIGHTH STREET, KNOCKING OVER A WOMAN, STEALING HER KEYS AND TAKING HER S-U-V. THE DEPUTIES LATER SPOTTED JANICE WALKING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND TOOK HER INTO CUSTODY ON CHARGES OF HOME INVASION, CARJACKING AND BATTERY OF THE INFIRM. HER BOND WAS SET AT EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
More than 20 Louisiana state fire marshal employees are heading to Puerto Rico to help with earthquake recovery efforts. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the plans Wednesday after signing off on the deployment request from Puerto Rico’s governor. Edwards’ office said Louisiana is sending 23 people from the fire marshal’s office, including deputies, building inspectors, plan reviewers and specialists in urban search and rescue. Puerto Rico has been shaken by continuing earthquakes for more than a month.
