3-3-23
THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH SCHOOL BOARD APPROVED A BAN ON HOODIES DURING THEIR MEETING LAST NIGHT. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS MORE.
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A LAFAYETTE WOMAN WAS INJURED WHEN SHE TRIED TO FIGHT OFF A PURSE SNATCHER IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE SUPER ONE GROCERY STORE ON AMBASSADOR CAFFERY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. ALLYSON WIGGINS TELLS KLFY TV THAT SHE WAS LOADING GROCERIES IN HER CAR WHEN SOMEONE JUMPED OUT OF A WHITE DODGE RAM PICKUP AND GRABBED HER PURSE. SHE CHASED AFTER HIM BUT WAS PUSHED INTO THE DOOR FRAME OF THE VEHICLE BEFORE THEY SPED OFF. LAFAYETTE POLICE SPOKESPERSON SERGEANT ROBIN GREEN SAYS A SUSPECT, CHAD WILLIAMS OF HOUSTON, TEXAS, IS IN CUSTODY AFTER A SHORT PURSUIT AND CRASH BUT THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE IS STILL ON THE RUN.
TWO DRUG RAIDS AT RESIDENCES IN JENNINGS LED TO THE RECOVERY OF ALMOST THREE POUNDS OF COCAINE AS WELL AS OTHER DRUGS. DETECTIVES WITH THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE CONDUCTED THE RAIDS WHICH LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF COCAINE, METH, PILLS AND MARIJUANA AS WELL AS OVER A THOUSAND DOLLARS AND THREE FIREARMS. TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD DREKEYLONE PETERS OF JENNINGS FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING SIX COUNTS OF POSSESSION WITH THE INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE SCHEDULE TWO DRUGS. TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD TELA (TEE luh) PHILPOTT WAS ARRESTED ON DRUG POSSESSION CHARGES.
Gov. John Bel Edwards named a new secretary for Louisiana’s Department of Transportation and Development. Eric Kalivoda (KAL ih voh duh), a veteran of the department, will succeed Shawn Wilson, who is retiring this week and is expected to run for governor as a Democrat in October. Kalivoda has been deputy secretary of the department for the past 13 years. Wilson described Kalivoda as having the “experience and dedication needed to continue our work making crucial, major improvements to our state’s network of roads, bridges, ports, rail and more.”
A BREAUX BRIDGE POLICE OFFICER WAS INJURED AFTER A CAR CRASH WHEN HE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS BEHIND THE WHEEL. AUTHORITIES SAY THE OFFICER WAS IN THE AREA OF BRIDGE STREET AT AROUND SIX LAST NIGHT WHEN HE HAD A MEDICAL EPISODE THAT CAUSED HIM TO LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS. HE CRASHED INTO A BUILDING. THE OFFICER IS RECEIVING MEDICAL ATTENTION AT A HOSPITAL AND A FULL INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY BY POLICE.
THE CURRENT IS REPORTING THAT THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT PAID A HOMELESS MAN FORTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS TO DROP A LAWSUIT AGAINST THEM. GEORGE HENAGAN FILED THE LAWSUIT IN NOVEMBER OF TWENTY-TWENTY TO STOP AN ORDINANCE THAT SEEKS TO CLAMP DOWN ON PANHANDLING. THE CURRENT SAYS DISTRICT AND APPELATE COURTS AS WELL AS THE U-S SUPREME COURT HAVE FOUND PANHANDLING TO BE PROTECTED SPEECH UNDER THE FIRST AMENDMENT. FEDERAL COURT RECORDS SHOW THE CASE WAS DROPPED IN DECEMBER “WITH PREJUDICE” AND ON A MOTION BY HENAGAN.
AN ELTON WOMAN, FIGHTING A WATER BILL OF SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, AGREED TO PAY AFTER THE TOWN COUNCIL DECIDED TO REDUCE IT BY ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. KEISHA LAFOSSE STILL HAS TO PAY ALMOST SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS WHICH SHE WILL DO WITH A MONTHLY PAYMENT OF THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN DOLLARS OVER EIGHTEEN MONTHS. THE HIGH BILL WAS DUE TO A WATER LEAK AT HER HOME. LAFOSSE SUGGESTED THE LEAK WAS THE TOWN’S FAULT BECAUSE OF SUDDEN CHANGES IN WATER PRESSURE BUT SHE HAD NO EVIDENCE TO BACK HER CLAIM.
A MULTI-AGENCY LAW ENFORCEMENT INVESTIGATION LED TO AN ARREST AND THE RECOVERY OF A TRACTOR TRAILER THAT WAS USED TO STEAL TRAILERS AT TRUCK STOPS IN RAYNE AND DUSON. ONE OF THE TRAILERS STOLEN WAS RECOVERED IN DECEMBER AND ON TUESDAY IT WAS LEARNED THE EIGHTEEN WHEELER USED IN THE THEFTS HAD RETURNED TO ACADIA PARISH. THE DRIVER, A CUBAN NATIONAL, WAS TIED TO THREE STOLEN TRAILERS FROM TRUCK STOPS. THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD DELMYS MARRERRO IS BEING HELD IN THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL ON A ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND.
