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A LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTY WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY FOR CONSPIRING TO BRING CONTRABAND INTO THE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER. SHERIFF’S OFFICE SPOKESMAN JOHN MOWELL SAYS 52-YEAR-OLD JONATHAN FREMIN WAS STOPPED YESTERDAY WHILE ON DUTY AND HIS SHERIFF’S OFFICE VEHICLE SEARCHED BECAUSE OF INFORMATION THEY RECENTLY DEVELOPED. THEY FOUND SUBOXONE IN HIS POSSESSION. FREMIN HAD ALLEGEDLY PURCHASED THE NARCOTIC FROM A LOCAL WOMAN FOR HIMSELF AND AN INMATE.
CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARRESTED A JEANERETTE WOMAN AFTER SHE LEFT THREE YOUNG GIRLS ALONE AT A LAKE CHARLES MOTEL ON APRIL 16TH. AN EMPLOYEE AT THE MOTEL ON WEST PRIEN LAKE ROAD FOUND AN EIGHT MONTH OLD GIRL WANDERING AROUND A SECOND FLOOR BALCONY, AND UPON RETURNING HER TO HER ROOM, FOUND TWO MORE GIRLS AGED TEN MONTHS AND TWO-YEARS-OLD. 21-YEAR-OLD LOGAN MARTIN, WHO WAS THE MOTHER OF ONE OF THE GIRLS AND RELATED TO THE TWO OTHERS, TOLD DEPUTIES SHE HAD LEFT THE ROOM FOR NO MORE THAN AN HOUR. SHERIFF’S OFFICE SPOKESMAN COMMANDER JAMES MCGEE SAYS LOGAN WAS FOUND TO BE IN POSSESSION OF A SMALL BAG OF MARIJUANA.
THREE PEOPLE FROM NEW IBERIA HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR THE 2015 ARMED ROBBERY OF THE COMMUNITY FIRST BANK IN BROUSSARD. 25-YEAR-OLD DEQUINCEY LEWIS AND 23-YEAR-OLD RAMON PAUL ALLEGEDLY ROBBED TWO BANK TELLERS AS THEY WERE LOADING AN A-T-M MACHINE. ONE OF THE BANK TELLERS, 31-YEAR-OLD CANDIS EVANS, WAS ALSO ARRESTED FOR HELPING PLAN THE CRIME. LEWIS AND PAUL HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH ARMED ROBBERY WHILE EVANS WAS BOOKED ON ONE COUNT OF PRINCIPAL TO ARMED ROBBERY.
The House tax committee’s hearing on Gov. John Bel Edwards’ main business tax proposal will extend into a second day. Business groups, other lobbying organizations and members of the general public will get their turn to talk about the gross receipts tax bill Tuesday in the Ways and Means Committee. Lawmakers on the committee spent most of Monday asking questions of Edwards’ Revenue Secretary Kimberly Robinson and bill sponsor Rep. Sam Jones, a Franklin Democrat. Republicans weren’t friendly to the tax proposal, suggesting it could chase away business.
A SHOOTING INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY IN LAFAYETTE. JULIE DARCE HAS THE DETAILS.
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Police in southwest Louisiana say that after a train clipped a side mirror from a 2016 Volvo, the driver lost the whole door when he pulled up to a second intersection and opened it to try to tell the crew. Lake Charles police Cpl. Shaun Touchet (TOO-shet) says nobody was hurt, and 64-year-old Frank Scalisi Jr. of Lake Charles was not ticketed after the incident Monday morning. Touchet says Scalisi was in a left turn lane along the tracks and saw the train approaching from behind but misjudged his distance from it and didn’t try to move his Volvo V60.
He says Scalisi then drove two blocks, stopped and opened the door to try to notify the crew.
46-YEAR-OLD KATHY WESTON WAS THE WOMAN WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED SUNDAY NIGHT IN VILLE PLATTE. HER SISTER, ROXANNE WESTON, SAYS KATHY WAS WALKING TO THE STORE WHEN GUNFIRE BROKE OUT AND SHE WAS CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE. FAMILY FRIEND ENOLA BATISTE TELLS KLFY TV THAT SHE AND KATHY WERE AT CHURCH JUST A FEW HOURS EARLIER SINGING IN THE CHOIR AND SHE SAYS THE VIOLENCE IN VILLE PLATTE NEEDS TO STOP. THERE WAS A SURVEILLANCE CAMERA AT THE INTERSECTION OF CHATAIGNER AND JACKSON STREETS, BUT POLICE HAVE NOT SAID WHETHER OR NOT IT CAPTURED IMAGES OF THE SHOOTING.
Louisiana’s parole board has revoked parole for a former soldier who admitted killing a woman in 1988, because a mailing mistake kept the victim’s mother from getting a notice about Samuel Galbraith’s hearing in October. A statement from Chairwoman Sheryl Ranatza says the notice was sent to Albany, New York instead of Albany, Illinois. Galbraith got a 71-year sentence after pleading guilty in 2000 to manslaughter and attempted aggravated rape of 21 year-old Karen Hill.
Both Galbraith and Hill’s husband were soldiers at Fort Polk.
