4-27-15
The sister of a man accused of punching and breaking the nose of a Youngsville youth softball coach is in jail for obstruction of justice. KATC-TV reports 30-year-old Brown Park Athletics softball coach Charell Jackson surrendered to police Friday for misleading them during an investigation into a postgame brawl Tuesday night at the Youngsville Sports Complex. The Advocate reports Jackson’s brother, 23-year-old Herman Lewis, was booked Thursday on a count of second-degree battery and has been released on $40,000 bail. Jackson had told investigators she knew the man who threw a punch only as “Joe” and plucked him from the crowd that night to work in the game.
THE U-S ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS RELEASED A REVISED SOUTHWEST COASTAL LOUISIANA STUDY, WHICH INCLUDES SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING POTENTIAL FLOODING IN CALCASIEU, CAMERON AND VERMILLION PARISHES. THE CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY IS CONCERNED ABOUT A PART OF THE STUDY IN WHICH AROUND 400 PROPERTIES COULD BE PLACED IN AN INVOLUNTARY BUY-OUT PROGRAM. THE POLICE JURY ON THURSDAY PASSED A RESOLUTION ASKING THE CORPS TO REMOVE THAT SECTION FROM THE STUDY. THE POLICE JURY IS ALSO HOPING THE LIST OF THOSE PROPERTIES WILL BE RELEASED BEFORE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD ENDS ON MAY FIFTH.
POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR TWO SUSPECTS WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING OVER THE WEEKEND AT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX IN CROWLEY. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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There are some good signs indicating that Louisiana’s bee population is rebounding, according to federal bee experts. The Daily Town Talk reports that a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture report on honey shows production is up.
Producing colonies have decreased about 4 percent in Louisiana, March data shows, but colonies were up in number about 22 percent from 2013. An issue that continues to pester beekeepers is the Verroa destructor, a parasitic mite that first devastated feral and managed bee colonies in the 1980s.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARRESTED EIGHT PEOPLE IN AN UNDERCOVER PROSTITUTION STING OPERATION. THE OPERATION TARGETED UPSCALE ESCORTS AND THEIR CLIENTS, WHO USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO MAKE THEIR DEALS. THE EIGHT WERE CHARGED WITH SOLICITING FOR PROSTITUTION. TWO OTHER FEMALES WERE DETAINED AND THEN RELEASED PENDING FURTHER INVESTIGATION.
JENNINGS POLICE CHIEF TODD D’ALBOR HAS ASKED STATE POLICE TO INVESTIGATE A SHOOTING INVOLVING ONE OF HIS OFFICERS. IT HAPPENED LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AS OFFICERS SERVED A SEARCH WARRANT AT A HOUSE ON DOWN STREET. ONE OF THE OFFICERS SHOT 61-YEAR-OLD CLEVELAND MYERS IN THE ANKLE. MYERS WAS TAKEN TO A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT.
Police made two separate drug raids on a St. Martinville street at the same time, arresting two men in the process. The Advocate reports narcotics agents with the St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s Office charged 40-year-old Joseph Gilliam and 37-year-old Jonathan Mason for drugs and stolen firearms found Friday morning. According to police, $20,000 in cash was seized, along with crack cocaine, marijuana, synthetic cannabinoids and a stolen firearm. Gilliam and Mason were booked into a correctional center.
Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne brought in $519,000 for his governor’s race campaign in the latest fundraising quarter. His campaign said Friday that the Republican has raised $2.8 million for the race so far, including the half-million dollars received since the start of this year. The campaign said it has $1.9 million in the bank for the Oct. 24 election. Dardenne remains well behind the fundraising prowess of U.S. Sen. David Vitter, the governor’s race front-runner.
