4-30-19
AFTER SPENDING A WEEKEND IN JAIL, THE OWNER OF CAJUN CANNABIS IN LAFAYETTE WAS RELEASED ON BOND. ON MONDAY, JUDGE JULES EDWARDS LOWERED THE BOND FOR TRAVIS DEYOUNG FROM 322 THOUSAND DOLLARS TO 97 THOUSAND DOLLARS. DEYOUNG WAS ARRESTED AFTER A TRAFFIC STOP LAST THURSDAY AND FACES SEVENTEEN CHARGES INCLUDING FELONY POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA AND TWO COUNTS OF POSSESSION OF A FIREARM IN THE PRESENCE OF CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES. LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF MARK GARBER SAYS THE ARREST WAS THE RESULT OF AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION THAT WAS LAUNCHED BECAUSE OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT ILLEGAL ACTIVITY GOING ON IN FRONT OF CAJUN CANNABIS.
A MAN FROM WELSH WAS SENTENCED IN FEDERAL COURT FOR DISTRIBUTING MARIJUANA AND COCAINE. IN JANUARY OF 2016, 38-YEAR-OLD DAMIEN GUIDRY WAS SEEN BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS PICKING UP A SHIPMENT OF MARIJUANA THAT WAS SENT FROM CALIFORNIA TO AN ADDRESS IN IOTA. IN NOVEMBER, GUIDRY PLEADED GUILTY TO ONE COUNT OF POSSESSION WITH THE INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE MARIJUANA AND ONE COUNT OF CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE AND POSSESS WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE COCAINE. U-S DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ROBERT SUMMERHAYS SENTENCED GUIDRY TO NINE YEARS AND SEVEN MONTHS IN PRISON.
I-TEN WESTBOUND NEAR BREAUX BRIDGE WAS CLOSED FOR MOST OF THE DAY YESTERDAY BECAUSE OF AN ACCIDENT INVOLVING FOUR 18-WHEELERS AND A CAR. THE DRIVER OF ONE OF THE 18-WHEELERS WAS KILLED, 37-YEAR-OLD KEVIN DEGLANDON (DEH glehn don) JUNIOR OF MANDEVILLE. ONE OF THE 18-WHEELERS CAUGHT FIRE BUT WAS QUICKLY EXTINGUISHED BY EMERGENCY PERSONNEL AND THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF PACKAGES OF TOILET PAPER THAT WERE SCATTERED IN THE ROADWAY. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED SHORTLY AFTER EIGHT YESTERDAY MORNING AND IT WASN’T UNTIL AFTER SIX LAST NIGHT THAT BOTH LANES WERE REOPENED.
Lawmakers in the Louisiana House have voted to prohibit banks from being able to refuse to do business with companies that are involved in gun and ammunition sales. The proposal by Republican Rep. Blake Miguez, of Erath, comes after Citigroup and Bank of America enacted firearm restriction policies for corporate customers. Miguez says such policies violate the Second Amendment rights of lawful gun and ammunition dealers and could limit their ability to maintain their businesses. The House voted 66-27 for the measure, sending it to the Senate for debate.
A bid to rework changes Gov. John Bel Edwards made to a lucrative Louisiana property tax break program for manufacturers has narrowly advanced to the full House for debate. The Democratic governor tied tax breaks from the Industrial Tax Exemption Program to job creation and retention and gave local government a say in whether exemptions are issued. Parish councils, police juries, sheriffs and school boards help determine the tax breaks since they lose the property tax revenue. Legislation by Republican Rep. Rick Edmonds would lessen local input.
SLEMCO WILL SOON BE RELOCATING ITS HEADQUARTERS. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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A 78-YEAR-OLD ELTON MAN WAS KILLED YESTERDAY AFTER REARENDING A TRACTOR. STATE POLICE SAYS EUGENE E. KINKELAAR OF ELTON WAS TRAVELING NORTH ON HIGHWAY 165 WHEN, FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON, HE HIT THE BACK OF A JOHN DEERE TRACTOR WITH A DISK PLOW ATTACHMENT. KINKELAAR WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE DRIVER OF THE TRACTOR, 24-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA DEAN LUNTSFORD OF FELTON, WAS TREATED AT THE SCENE FOR MINOR INJURIES. TOXICOLOGY SAMPLES WERE TAKEN FROM BOTH DRIVERS AND THE ACCIDENT REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
TWO WOMEN WERE ARRESTED AFTER RAYNE POLICE CONDUCTED A DRUG RAID. POLICE FOUND COCAINE, METHAMPHETAMINE, MARIJUANA AND VARIOUS PILLS AT A RESIDENCE ON PEARL STREET. THEY ALSO LOCATED SCALES, CLEAR BAGGIES AND A LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY. THEY ARRESTED 42-YEAR-OLD KAREN GERVAIS OF RAYNE AND 47-YEAR-OLD GAYLA HUNT OF LAFAYETTE ON MULTIPLE DRUG CHARGES.
