4-25-23
VILLE PLATTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A HOMOCIDE. A WOMAN CALLED POLICE TO EAST GENERAL BEAUREGARD STREET WHERE HER HUSBAND WAS UNRESPONSIVE. POLICE HAVE NOT RELEASED THE MAN’S NAME OR THE CAUSE OF DEATH. KLFY TV IS REPORTING THAT THEY WERE TOLD THE VICTIM IS A BLACK MAN IN HIS LATE FORTIES.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE LAFAYETTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY HAS RESPONDED TO THE GROWING NUMBER OF VACANT RETAIL SPACES ALONG AMBASSADOR CAFFERY. IN THE AREA WHERE THE OLD NAVY STORE USED TO BE, THERE ARE SIX EMPTY SPACES. LEDA PRESIDENT MANDI MITCHELL SAYS LAFAYETTE IS A RETAIL AND ENTERTAINMENT HUB FOR THE REGION AND AMBASSADOR CAFFERY REMAINS AT THE HEART OF LAFAYETTE’S RETAIL SECTOR. SHE SAYS IN A STATEMENT THAT, IN RECENT MONTHS, THERE’S BEEN SOME SHUFFLING ALONG THE CORRIDOR WITH MOST RETAILERS DESIRING TO BE NEAR THE KALISTE SALOOM INTERSECTION BECAUSE OF THE HIGH TRAFFIC COUNT.
A LAKE CHARLES MAN WAS ARRESTED LAST WEDNESDAY ON A NEARLY THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD RAPE CASE. ON JULY THIRD, NINETEEN EIGHTY-EIGHTY, DETECTIVES INVESTIGATED A COMPLAINT FROM A WOMAN WHO SAID SHE WAS RAPED BY A MAN WHO BROKE INTO HER HOUSE THROUGH A WINDOW AND KNOCKED HER UNCONSCIOUS. BECAUSE OF UPGRADES IN TECHNOLOGY, THE SOUTHWEST CRIME LAB RECENTLY RESUBMITTED DNA EVIDENCE TO THE COMBINED D-N-A INDEX SYSTEMS, WHICH IDENTIFIED FIFTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DARTANYAN BREAUX AS A DNA MATCH. HE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED RAPE AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT NINE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
IDENTITY THEFTS IN LOUISIANA HAVE MORE THAN DOUBLED SINCE TWENTY-NINETEEN, ACCORDING TO THE INSURANCE COMPARISON WEBSITE, QUOTE WIZARD. LOUISIANA HAS SEEN ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE PERCENT INCREASE IN IDENTITY THEFTS SINCE TWENTY-NINETEEN, THE THIRD HIGHEST INCREASE OF ANY STATE IN THE NATION. LAST YEAR, LOUISIANA HAD ALMOST TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND IDENTITY THEFT REPORTS. LOUISIANA ALSO HAD THE SECOND HIGHEST RATE OF REPORTED IDENTITY THEFTS.
SAINT LANDRY PARISH PRESIDENT JESSIE BELLARD WAS IN COURT MONDAY FOLLOWING AN INJUNCTION HE FILED AGAINST THE PARISH COUNCIL. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS THE DETAILS.
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THE YOUNGSVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS ANNOUNCED THEY WILL BE SCALING BACK CALLS TO THE UNINCORPORATED PARTS OF LAFAYETTE PARISH. MAYOR KEN RITTER SAYS THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MADE THE DECISION LAST WEEK BECAUSE OF A LACK OF FUNDING COMING FROM OUTSIDE THE CITY. HE SAYS THIRTY PERCENT OF FIRE DEPARTMENT CALLS ARE FROM THE UNINCORPORATED PARTS OF THE PARISH BUT ONLY A LITTLE OVER THREE PERCENT OF THEIR FUNDING COMES FROM OUTSIDE YOUNGSVILLE CITY LIMITS. RITTER SAYS, BEGINNING MAY THIRTY-FIRST, THE YOUNGSVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT WILL NO LONGER BE RESPONDING TO LARGELY MEDICAL CALLS LIKE CARDIAC ARRESTS AND HEART PROBLEMS.
JENNINGS POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED AN AUTO THEFT SUSPECT WHO WAS BELIEVED TO BE PROVIDING A FALSE NAME. THE SUSPECT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS JESSIE RAY COLLINS. ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON, A VEHICLE WAS STOLEN IN JENNINGS. IT WAS LATER RECOVERED BY VERMILLION PARISH DEPUTIES.
THE LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION WILL HOLD ITS MONTHLY BUSINESS AND EXECUTIVE SESSION WEDNESDAY AT THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE OF THE SOUTH IN CROWLEY. VICE CHAIRMAN MIKE FRANCIS, WHOSE DISTRICT INCLUDES CROWLEY, ENCOURAGES HIS CONSTITUENTS TO ATTEND THE MEETING, WHICH BEGINS AT TEN A-M TOMORROW. HE SAYS THIS WILL GIVE ATTENDEES A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE COMMISSION DOES. THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION TRAVELS TO VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE OCCASIONALLY TO GIVE THE PUBLIC A CHANCE TO ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE.
