3-24-23
A MAN WAS SHOT IN THE EIGHT HUNDRED BLOCK OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR DRIVE. LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICERS RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF SHOTS FIRED IN THAT AREA JUST AFTER EIGHT P-M AND LOCATED THE MAN WHO WAS SHOT. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL BUT STABLE CONDITION. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CONTACT AUTHORITIES.
AN INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY AFTER A SHOOTING CLAIMED THE LIFE OF A TEENAGER IN SAINT MARTIN PARISH. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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MORE THAN A HUNDRED LOUSIANA OFFICIALS WERE IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL THIS WEEK TO LOBBY FOR THE LOWER ENERGY COSTS ACT. THE ADVOCATE REPORTS THAT THE ACT COMBINES ABOUT TWENTY BILLS THAT WOULD CLEAR HURDLES FOR ENERGY PRODUCTION AND INCREASE FEDERAL OFFSHORE ROYALTIES FOR LOUISIANA AND OTHER STATES. IT’S LIKELY TO CLEAR THE U-S HOUSE NEXT WEEK BUT FACES HURDLES IN THE U-S SENATE. THE MAJORITY LEADER OF THE SENATE, CHUCK SCHUMER, SAYS BOTH PARTIES ARE INFORMALLY TALKING COMPROMISES THAT COULD LEAD TO SOME FORM OF THE LEGISLATION PASSING IN THE SENATE.
A LAKE CHARLES MAN, WHO WAS ONE OF THE CITGO SIX OIL EXECUTIVES WHO WERE HELD FOR NEARLY FIVE YEARS IN VENEZUELA, HAS SUED HIS COMPANY FOR ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. TOMEU VADELL CLAIMS CITGO LURED HIM AND THE OTHER FIVE TO BE USED AS POLITICAL PAWNS. VADELL ALSO CLAIMS CITGO REFUSED TO PAY HIS LEGAL FEES WHILE HE WAS TRIED AND CONVICTED IN VENEZUELA AND DID NOT PAY HIS SALARY WHILE HE WAS ARRESTED AND IMPRISONED. VADELL WAS FREED IN OCTOBER AS PART OF A PRISONER EXCHANGE.
ALL THE INFORMATION FROM A MONTHS-LONG INVESTIGATION INTO MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY BY THE LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL HAS BEEN HANDED OVER TO THE STATE LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR. THE INFORMATION WILL REMAIN CONFIDENTIAL UNLESS THE LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR DECIDES TO RELEASE IT. THE COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY VOTED TO LAUNCH THE INVESTIGATION IN TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE FOLLOWING GUILLORY’S RETURN FROM REHAB AND AMIDST A REPORT ABOUT A CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT RENTAL COMPANY STARTED BY GUILLORY AND HIS WIFE. THE ADVOCATE REPORTS THE INVESTIGATION FOCUSED ON THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT’S DRAINAGE PROGRAM AND GUILLORY’S USE OF RESOURCES, INCLUDING ON HIS SECURITY DETAIL.
YESTERDAY EUNICE POLICE ARRESTED A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD FOR THE MURDER OF FORTY-YEAR-OLD CARL VIGERS ON MONDAY. VIGERS WAS SHOT WHILE STANDING OUTSIDE AN APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF SOUTH BEULAH AND EAST MAPLE AVENUE, AND HE LATER DIED AT THE HOSPITAL. THE SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD FACES A CHARGE OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. EUNICE POLICE HAVE ALSO ARRESTED TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD LEROY FREEMAN OF EUNICE AND A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD FOR PRINCIPAL TO FIRST DEGREE MURDER.
More than 100 abandoned oil wells, which can leak cancer-causing chemicals and threaten the environmental health of an area, have been plugged during the last two months in Louisiana. Most of the state’s orphaned wells, nearly 70% of them, are located in northern Louisiana. Biden administration officials joined their state counterparts in the Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge recently to tout the efforts. Louisiana was awarded $25 million in initial federal grant funds to address the problem.
THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS DEPUTIES HAVE CONTINUED THEIR AGGRESSIVE STANCE TOWARD STREET-LEVEL PROBLEMS AROUND THE PARISH. THE CRIME SUPPRESSION UNIT AND PATROL DEPUTIES MADE TWENTY-EIGHT ARRESTS IN THE FIRST HALF OF MARCH, SIXTEEN OF WHICH WERE FOR FELONIES. DEPUTIES SEIZED VARIOUS NARCOTICS INCLUDING FENTANYL, METH AND HEROIN, AS WELL AS TWO FIREARMS AND MORE THAN THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED IN SUSPECTED DRUG MONEY. SHERIFF K-P GIBSON SAID IN A NEWS RELEASE THEY WILL CONTINUE WITH THEIR FOCUS ON REDUCING CRIME IN THE PARISH.
