3-20-18
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR TWO BLACK MALE SUSPECTS IN CONNECTION WITH A HOME INVASION. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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A 13-YEAR-OLD SULPHUR GIRL, WHO WAS HIT BY A VEHICLE WHILE SHE WAS CROSSING THE STREET TO GET ON A BUS, IS BEGINNING TO IMPROVE. ANGELA JONES TELLS KPLC TV THAT HER GRANDDAUGHTER, ALYSSA, HAS HAD TWO SURGERIES TO REPAIR HER LEGS, COLLARBONE AND SHOULDER AND ANOTHER SURGERY IS SCHEDULED SOON. SHE SAYS ONCE ALYSSA DOES GET OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, IT WILL TAKE ANOTHER TWO TO THREE MONTHS FOR HER TO LEARN TO WALK AGAIN. THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND THE SCHOOL BOARD ARE STILL INVESTIGATING THE ACCIDENT, WHICH HAPPENED LAST FRIDAY.
IT TOOK AUTHORITIES MORE THAN 24 HOURS TO FIND THE BODY OF A MAN, WHO DIED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE WRECK NEAR THE ST. LANDRY AND EVANGELINE PARISH LINE. AT AROUND THREE A-M SATURDAY MORNING, STATE TROOPERS FOUND A 2007 CHEVY SILVERADO IN A DITCH OFF OF U-S 167, BUT THEY COULDN’T FIND THE DRIVER. ON SUNDAY AT AROUND 9:30 A-M, THE BODY OF 24-YEAR-OLD WILLIAM MOREIN OF VILLE PLATTE WAS FOUND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY. AUTHORITIES DETERMINED HE WAS EJECTED FROM THE VEHICLE AFTER HITTING A BRIDGE RAIL AND THE VEHICLE CONTINUED ON BEFORE CRASHING INTO THE DITCH.
The Louisiana Senate has decided that courts should postpone any slander lawsuits filed against people who allege they’ve been sexually assaulted. Sen. J.P. Morrell, the New Orleans Democrat who sponsored the bill, says wealthy perpetrators of sexual misconduct often use defamation lawsuits to try to prevent rape victims from being able to move forward with assault claims. His proposal would require the delay of a slander lawsuit until all investigations and proceedings involving the assault claim are resolved. The Senate voted 29-8 Monday to send the bill to the House for debate.
POLICE ARE STILL INVESTIGATING THE ROBBERY OF THE TARGET STORE ON AMBASSADOR CAFFERY IN LAFAYETTE. POLICE SAY THAT LATE SUNDAY NIGHT, A MAN WALKED INTO THE STORE, DEMANDED MONEY AND ESCAPED WITH AN UNDISCLOSED AMOUNT OF CASH. NO ONE WAS INJURED AND THE STORE WAS EVACUATED AFTER THE ROBBERY. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION THAT CAN HELP POLICE CAPTURE THE ROBBER IS ASKED TO CALL LAFAYETTE CRIME STOPPERS AT 232-TIPS.
A LAGRANGE HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER, WHO WAS CHARGED A YEAR AGO WITH INAPPROPRIATELY TOUCHING A STUDENT, SAYS HE’S HAD TROUBLE FINDING A NEW JOB AND HAS BEEN EVICTED FROM HIS APARTMENT. 32-YEAR-OLD RAYMOND JOHNSON LEARNED RECENTLY THAT THE CALCASIEU PARISH DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE LAST MONTH REJECTED THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM. JOHNSON SAYS NOW ALL HE WANTS IS ANOTHER JOB AND TO BE ABLE TO MOVE ON WITH HIS LIFE. JOHNSON HOPES TO GET THE ARREST ERASED FROM HIS RECORD, BUT OFFICIALS AT THE D-A’S OFFICE SAY THAT, IF MORE EVIDENCE IS UNCOVERED, HE COULD BE CHARGED IN THE FUTURE.
A STATE JUDGE HAS RULED AGAINST AN ACADIA PARISH LANDOWNER WHO WANTED TO HALT CONSTRUCTION OF THE BAYOU BRIDGE PIPELINE UNTIL A FEDERAL LAWSUIT AGAINST THE PROJECT IS RESOLVED. LAST YEAR, BAYOU BRIDGE PIPELINE L-L-C OBTAINED RIGHTS TO BUILD ON SIX ACRES OWNED BY HOPE ROSINSKI. ON MAY FOURTH, ROSINSKI SENT AN EMAIL TO THE COMPANY PROHIBITING THEM FROM CONSTRUCTION ON HER PROPERTY BECAUSE OF JUDGE SHELLY DICK’S FEBRUARY 23RD RULING THAT HALTED CONSTRUCTION UNTIL A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE U-S ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS IS RESOLVED. ON MONDAY, JUDGE KRISTIAN EARLES GRANTED A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION IN FAVOR OF BAYOU BRIDGE WHICH PREVENTS ROSINSKI FROM INTERFERING IN THE CONSTRUCTION.
Louisiana’s corrections secretary says a proposal to cut the rate paid to sheriffs for housing state inmates in local jails would be a “disaster waiting to happen.”
Secretary Jimmy LeBlanc told the House Appropriations Committee on Monday that sheriffs would be unable to cover the costs of housing inmates at a reduced rate of $19.39 per day, a proposal floated to help close next year’s budget gap.
LeBlanc says sheriffs would likely refuse to take many of the inmates, forcing them back into state prisons, which he says don’t have the place to house them. He says the prisons would have to put prisoners on the floors on mattresses, which could threaten public safety.
