4-4-23
LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES WERE CONDUCTING A DEATH INVESTIGATION YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. KATC TV SAYS VIEWERS TOLD THEM THERE WAS A HEAVY PRESENCE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CRIME SCENE TAPE AT A HOME IN THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOCK OF BRETON DRIVE. THAT’S SOUTH OF VINCENT ROAD AND WEST OF VEROT SCHOOL DRIVE. A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAID THEY ARE VERY EARLY IN THE INVESTIGATION AND THERE ARE NO DETAILS TO SHARE.
OPELOUSAS POLICE HAVE ARRESTED AN EMPLOYEE AT MAMA’S FRIED CHICKEN FOR ALLEGEDLY FIRING AT A VEHICLE LEAVING THE RESTAURANT SUNDAY THAT WAS DRIVEN BY JOSEPH DUGAS. DUGAS FIRED SHOTS BACK, HITTING THE RESTAURANT SEVERAL TIMES. THE SHOOTING HAPPENED AFTER A FEMALE EMPLOYEE AT MAMA’S GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH A FEMALE PASSENGER IN DUGAS’S CAR. THE EMPLOYEE WHO WAS ARRESTED IS THIRTY-YEAR-OLD NICHOLAS SAM OF WASHINGTON, WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH THREE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. AN ARREST WARRANT HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR DUGAS.
THE FOUNDER OF THE LOUISIANA OIL AND GAS ASSOCIATION PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN LAFAYETTE YESTERDAY. DON BRIGGS WAS EIGHTY-TWO-YEARS-OLD. CURRENT PRESIDENT MIKE MONCLA CALLED BRIGGS A TITAN OF LOUISIANA’S OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY WHO STARTED LOGA FROM THE GROUND UP. HE SAYS THEY ARE COMFORTED BY THAT FACT THAT BRIGGS IS STROLLING DOWN THE STREETS OF GOLD IN HEAVEN TODAY WITH JESUS.
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD STUDENT AT SAM HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH TERRORIZING. DEPUTIES WITH THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE WERE NOTIFIED LAST FRIDAY ABOUT A STUDENT MAKING THREATS. IT WAS LEARNED DURING AN INVESTIGATION THAT THE FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD HAD SAID HE WAS GOING TO BLOW UP THE SCHOOL. THE STUDENT WAS BOOKED INTO THE JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER.
A SECOND JUVENILE WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH SEXUAL BATTERY AFTER AN INCIDENT AT COMEAUX HIGH SCHOOL. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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THE EVANGELINE PARISH POLICE JURY IS CONSIDERING A BAN ON THE COMBINATION OF TANNERITE AND PROPANE. TANNERITE IS AN EXPLODING POWDER MANY USE FOR TARGET PRACTICE. POLICE JURY PRESIDENT BRYAN VIDRINE SAYS SOME HAVE ATTACHED THE TANNERITE TO PROPANE BOTTLES WHICH CAN CAUSE AN EXPLSION THAT RATTLES WINDOWS SIX MILES AWAY. HE SAYS THEY KNOW WHERE THIS IS COMING FROM BUT THEY’VE NEVER HAD RULES ON THE BOOKS TO PREVENT IT.
THREE PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED LAST WEEK AFTER A MONTH-LONG INVESTIGATION INTO A DRUG-TRAFFICKING NETWORK IN VERMILLION PARISH. DEPUTIES ARRESTED THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD JACOBI LANDRY ON SEVENTEEN CHARGES INCLUDING NUMEROUS DRUG DISTRIBUTION CHARGES. LANDRY RESISTED ARREST AFTER THE SEARCH OF A HOME WHERE A LARGE AMOUNT OF DRUGS WERE FOUND AND A HANDGUN WITH AN EXTENDED MAGAZINE. ALSO ARRESTED BECAUSE OF THE INVESTIGATION WERE FIFTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD EARL JOSEPH THE THIRD AND THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD KERRY JULIEN OF KAPLAN.
WE ARE JUST UNDER ONE WEEK BEFORE THE REGULAR LEGISLATIVE SESSION BEGINS. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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