3-28-23
A SUNSET MAN WAS ARRESTED AFTER AUTHORITIES SAY THEY FOUND HIM WITH ENOUGH FENTANYL TO KILL MORE THAN A MILLION PEOPLE. DANIELLE JOHNSON REPORTS.
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TRASH IS ILLEGALLY BEING DUMPED AND SET ON FIRE ALONG BEAU BASSIN ROAD IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. FIRE DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON ALTON TRAHAN SAYS THEY HAVE BEEN RESPONDING TO THE FIRES BECAUSE NEIGHBORS HAVE COMPLAINED ABOUT THE SMOKE. HE SAYS FIREFIGHTERS HAVE TO PUT OUT THE FIRES BECAUSE OF THE CLOSE PROXIMITY TO HOMES. TRAHAN SAYS ANYONE CAUGHT DUMPING THE TRASH OR SETTING IT ON FIRE WILL RECEIVE A MISDEMEANOR SUMMONS AND A JUDGE WILL DETERMINE THE PENALTY.
A JEFF DAVIS PARISH MAN WAS ARRESTED AFTER HIS WIFE ACCUSED HIM OF HITTING HER. THE WOMAN SAID HER HUSBAND, FORTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD BRANDEN FURAY, WAS UPSET WITH HER FOR ALLOWING HER OLDEST DAUGHER TO STAY THE NIGHT. SHE SAYS, DURING AN ARGUMENT, HE THREW HER TO THE GROUND AND HIT HER BEHIND THE EAR. FURAY WAS FOUND BY DEPUTIES WHILE DRIVING ON HIGHWAY THREE NINETY-FIVE, WHERE HE WAS STOPPED AND ARRESTED FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE BATTERY WITH CHILD ENDANGERMENT, AND ON AN OUTSTANDING CONTEMPT OF COURT WARRANT.
A CAR CAUGHT FIRE SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE SONIC RESTAURANT IN CROWLEY. CROWLEY FIREFIGHTERS RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF A FIRE AT SONIC AND QUICKLY REALIZED IT WAS A CAR ON FIRE. ONE WITNESS, PATRICK SCHULTZ, TELLS KLFY TV THE CAR WAS DESTROYED. ASHLEY RODRIGUE WITH THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE SAYS THEY ARE INVESTIGATING TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT WILL TAKE ACTION TO GET REIMBURSED FOR REPAIRS TO THE I-TEN OVERPASS IN LAFAYETTE, ACCORDING TO SPOKESPERSON DEIDRA DRUILHET. BACK ON JANUARY FOURTH, THE DRIVER OF A TRUCK HIT THE OVERPASS, CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE FOUNDATION, WHICH IS STILL BEING REPAIRED NEARLY THREE MONTHS LATER. THE DRIVER OF THE TRUCK, ANTHONY MOREAU, WAS CITED BY LAFAYETTE POLICE FOR VIOLATING TRAILER HEIGHT REGULATIONS. THE D-O-T-D WILL BE TAKING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST THE OWNER OF THE TRUCK, BEBE THRASHER, AND THE OWNER OF THE TRAILER, ELE CONSTRUCTION.
A STUDENT AT BELL CITY HIGH SCHOOL HAS BEEN ARRESTED AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY MADE THREATS TO SHOOT UP THE SCHOOL. DEPUTIES WITH THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE LEARNED OF THE THREATS FRIDAY AFTERNOON BEFORE THREE. THE THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD STUDENT ALLEGEDLY TOLD OTHER STUDENTS HE HAD A GUN IN HIS BACKPACK AND WAS GOING TO SHOOT UP THE SCHOOL. WHEN DEPUTIES SEARCHED THE STUDENT, THEY FOUND HE DIDN’T HAVE A GUN, BUT HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE JUVENILE DETENION CENTER FOR TERRORIZING.
THE VERMILLION PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE ASSISTED THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IN ARRESTING A MAN WITH OUTSTANDING WARRANTS. THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE REQUESTED THE ASSISTANCE OF THE VERMILLION PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE WHEN IT WAS LEARNED THAT TREVOR GUIDRY WAS LOCATED IN A RESIDENCE IN VERMILLION PARISH. GUIDRY WAS WANTED FOR ACCESSORY TO AGGRAVATED ASSAULT BY DRIVE-BY SHOOTING IN BROUSSARD AND FOR SIMPLE ROBBERY IN ERATH. DEPUTIES HAD LEARNED THAT GUIDRY HAD TOLD SOMEONE HE WOULD NOT PEACEFULLY SURRENDER TO LAW ENFORCEMENT, BUT VERMILLION PARISH DEPUTIES NEGOTIATED A SUCCESSFUL SURRENDER AND GUIDRY WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WITHOUT INCIDENT.
A PERSON WAS SHOT AND KILLED JUST AFTER TWO-THIRTY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON IN OPELOUSAS. THE SHOOTING HAPPENED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF FRANKLIN AND UNION STREETS. WHEN POLICE ARRIVED THEY FOUND THE VICTIM LYING IN THE ROADWAY SUFFERING FROM SEVERAL GUNSHOT WOUNDS AND TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE LATER DIED. THE IDENTITY OF THE VICTIM HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED. NO ARRESTS HAVE YET BEEN MADE.
