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4-11-23

LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A HOMOCIDE THAT HAPPENED LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.  POLICE RESPONDING TO A CALL OF MULTIPLE SHOTS FIRED IN THE TWO HUNDRED BLOCK OF SOPHIE STREET FOUND A MAN LYING IN THE ROADWAY.  HE WAS SUFFERING FROM A GUNSHOT WOUND AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE DIED.  THE VICTIM HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD KENTREVON GALLIEN.

 

AN ELDERLY WOMAN, WHO WAS BEATEN BY HER GRANDAUGHTER LAST WEEK, HAS DIED, ACCORDING TO THE EVANGELINE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE.  THEY SAY THE AUTHORITIES ARE CONSIDERING UPGRADING THE CHARGES AGAINST CECILIA ANN LEE.  SHE WAS VISITING HER EIGHT-FIVE-YEAR-OLD GRANDMA IN VILLE PLATTE TUESDAY EVENING WHEN THEY GOT INTO AN ALTERCATION.  LEE IS ACCUSED OF USING A PICTURE FRAME AND WOODEN BACK SCRATCHER TO BEAT HER GRANDMOTHER AND VANDALIZE THE RESIDENCE AND THE GRANDMOTHER’S PHONE, BEFORE FALLING ASLEEP ON A COUCH.

 

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards kicked off the legislative session with his final State of the State address, which focused on proposed legislation that would raise teacher pay, abolish the death penalty, increase the minimum wage and seek solutions to the ongoing insurance crisis. Lawmakers returned to the state Capitol Monday to convene the 2023 regular legislative session.  Gov. John Bel Edwards is proposing a $45 billion budget that would use $2.2 billion of extra revenue forecast for one-time transportation projects, teacher pay raises and paying off disaster-related debt.

 

LAKE CHARLES POLICE MADE TWO ARRESTS LAST THURSDAY IN CONNECTION WITH A DRIVE BY SHOOTING EARLIER THAT DAY IN THE FIFTEEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF CLOVER DRIVE.  A HOME WAS HIT BY GUNFIRE.  POLICE WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE THE SUSPECT VEHICLE THROUGH VIDEO SURVEILLANCE AND INTERVIEWS WITH WITNESSES AND FOUND AND PULLED OVER THE VEHICLE LATER THAT EVENING.  THE TWO OCCUPANTS WERE ARRESTED, NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD KATELYN RENEE PRESCOTT OF LAKE CHARLES AND A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD MALE JUVENILE.

 

THE OWNERS OF A COMPANY THAT WAS DENIED IN ITS EFFORTS TO BUILD A CONVENIENCE STORE AT THE FOUR CORNER’S AREA IN LAFAYETTE HAS FILED SUIT AGAINST THE LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION.  GLOMAX HAD BOUGHT THE FORMER CHASE BANK BUILDING AND ADJOINING LOTS WITH THE PLAN TO REDEVELOP IT.  THE SUIT SAYS THEY HAD PREDEVELOPMENT MEETINGS WITH CONSOLIDATED STAFF TO DISCUSS THE PLANS AND HAD A REASONABLE EXPECTATION THAT A GAS STATION COULD OPERATE THERE.  THE COMMISSION VOTED TO DENY THE REQEST IN DECEMBER AFTER NEARBY RESIDENTS VOICED THEIR DISAPPROVAL.

 

THREE MARINES, TWO OF WHICH ARE FROM ACADIANA, WERE AWARDED FOR STOPPING A FIGHT AT A RESTAURANT IN VIRGINIA IN WHICH ONE OF THE INSTIGATORS PULLED A KNIFE.  CORPORAL JOHN DARBY OF BREAUX BRIDGE AND LANCE CORPORAL NICHOLAS DURAL OF LAFAYETTE EACH RECEIVED THE NAVY AND MARINE CORPS ACHIEVEMENT MEDAL AT AN AWARD CEREMONY APRIL SIXTH.  DURAL TOOK THE TEEN WITH THE KNIFE DOWN AND DARBY TOOK THE KNIFE AND HE AND THE OTHER MARINE KEPT ANY OTHERS FROM INTERVENING.  DURAL SAYS HE GOT INVOLVED BECAUSE THERE WERE WOMEN AND CHILDREN PRESENT AND HE COULDN’T LET ANYONE GET HURT.

 

Richard Ieyoub, a three-term Louisiana attorney general who lost bids to become governor and U.S. senator, died Monday in Baton Rouge at age 78. Ieyoub had served for the last seven years as Louisiana’s conservation commissioner, its top oil and gas industry regulator. He was appointed by Gov. Jon Bel Edwards, a fellow Democrat. Ieyoub served in his hometown of Lake Charles as Calcasieu Parish District Attorney from 1984 to 1992, winning election as attorney general in 1992 for the first of three terms through 2004.

 

A MORGAN CITY MAN WAS ARRESTED ON OBSCENITY CHARGES INVOLVING MINORS BECAUSE OF AN ONLINE OPERATION BY MORGAN CITY POLICE.  THEY WERE MONITORING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS REGARDING A PRIOR INVESTIGATION WHEN THEY NOTICED A POST FROM TWENTY-YEAR-OLD JAKHYRI CARBIN.  THEY OBTAINED SEARCH WARRANTS AND DISCOVERED HE WAS HAVING INAPPROPRIATE CONVERSATIONS WITH JUVENILES AND SENDING MULTIPLE OBSCENE PHOTOS TO DIFFERENT ADULT WOMEN.  CARBIN HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN ARRESTED FOR CYBERSTALKING AND OBSCENITY AND ONE OF THE TERMS OF HIS BOND WAS HE WAS PROHIBITED FROM ACCESSING INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS.