4-26-19
AUTHORITIES SEARCHED THE NEWLY OPENED CAJUN CANNIBAS AND ARRESTED THE OWNER YESTERDAY. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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LAST NIGHT THE DRIVER OF A VEHICLE TRIED TO ELUDE LAKE CHARLES POLICE BUT WAS EVENTUALLY CAUGHT. THE PURSUIT BEGAN ON I-210 NEAR PRIEN LAKE ROAD AND ENDED ON RUTH STREET IN SULPHUR. SERGEANT BRENDA DESORMEAUX SAYS THE DRIVER WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY ON A D-W-I CHARGE. SULPHUR POLICE HELPED WITH THE PURSUIT.
TEN PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED BY POLICE YESTERDAY FOLLOWING RAIDS RELATED TO INVESTIGATIONS INTO SHOOTINGS IN EUNICE. YESTERDAY MORNING AT AROUND SIX A-M, EUNICE POLICE EXECUTED SEARCH WARRANTS AT TWO HOMES, ONE ON TOWNHOME DRIVE AND THE OTHER AT SOUTH MALLET AND NORTH STREETS. POLICE CHIEF RANDY FONTENOT SAYS THEY FOUND THE OCCUPANTS OF THE HOMES SLEEPING WITH GUNS NEARBY. FONTENOT SAYS THEY SEIZED NUMEROUS FIREARMS AS WELL AS 260 GRAMS OF MARIJUANA AND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, AS WELL AS OTHER EVIDENCE.
A renewed effort to boost the minimum wage paid to Louisiana workers is edging ahead in the state Senate, but with tougher hurdles to passage than prior wage hike bills that failed. The proposal by New Orleans Democratic Sen. Troy Carter would set Louisiana’s minimum wage at $9 per hour, up from the $7.25-per-hour federal level. The Senate labor committee voted 5-1 Thursday to send the measure to the full Senate. Carter’s proposing to let voters decide the wage hike’s fate, but that takes two-thirds backing from the House and Senate.
U-L LAFAYETTE WILL BE GETTING 249 THOUSAND DOLLARS TO STUDY WAYS TO IMPROVE THE SEAFOOD INDUSTRY IN ACADIANA AND OTHER COASTAL PARISHES IN LOUISIANA. THE LOUSIANA SEAFOOD PROMOTION AND MARKETING BOARD IS PROVIDING THE FUNDING. IT WILL ALLOW U-L TO STUDY WAYS TO HELP FISHERMEN, PROCESSORS AND SELLERS. THE VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE LOUISIANA SEAFOOD PROMOTION AND MARKETING BOARD, CHALIN DELAUNE, SAYS THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF THIS MAGNITUDE IN THIS REGION.
THE COAST GUARD CAME TO THE RESCUE OF FOUR TEENAGERS ON A SURFBOARD SOUTH OF CAMERON. THEY HAD BEEN SWEPT OUT TO SEA AND WERE ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED YARDS FROM THE COAST. A GOOD SAMARITAN TRIED TO HELP THEM BUT WAS UNABLE TO REACH THEM. THE COAST GUARD USED TWO BOATS FROM STATION SABINE AFTER A HELICOPTER FROM AIR STATION HOUSTON SPOTTED THE TEENS.
ABBEVILLE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A SUSPECT IN AN ARMED ROBBERY THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY IN THE THREE HUNDRED BLOCK OF VETERANS MEMORIAL DRIVE. THE VICTIM IDENTIFIED DEJON CHARGOIS AS THE PERSON WHO ROBBED HIM. WHEN POLICE WENT TO CHARGOIS’ HOME, ANOTHER PERSON, RODERICK GUIDRY, RAN INTO A BEDROOM AND POLICE ARRESTED HIM AFTER THEY FOUND A HANDGUN WITHOUT A SERIAL NUMBER AS WELL AS TEN COUNTERFEIT HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS AND WEIGHING SCALES. CHARGOIS, WHO WASN’T AT HIS HOME, WAS LATER FOUND AND ARRESTED.
Louisiana farmers could expand into the hemp-growing business, if lawmakers agree to a proposal heading to the full House for debate. The measure by Republican Rep. Clay Schexnayder would legalize growing and processing of industrial hemp in Louisiana, in line with what’s allowed under the 2018 federal Farm Bill. The House agriculture committee advanced the proposal Thursday without objection. Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain supports and helped craft the legislation.
