4-7-23
A FIRE AT A LAFAYETTE APARTMENT COMPLEX HAS FORCED AT LEAST TWO DOZEN STUDENTS TO FIND NEW RESIDENCES TEMPORARILY. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.
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AN EIGHTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD WOMAN FROM VILLE PLATTE IS IN CRITICAL BUT STABLE CONDITION AFTER SHE WAS ALLEGEDLY BEATEN BY HER GRANDDAUGHTER. CECILIA ANN LEE GOT INTO AN ALTERCATION WITH HER GRANDMOTHER THAT BECAME PHYSICAL DURING A TUESDAY EVENING VISIT. DETECTIVES SAY LEE USED A WOODEN BACK SCRATCHER AND A PICTURE FRAME TO BEAT HER GRANDMOTHER AND THEN SHE VANDALIZED THE RESIDENCE AND DAMAGED THE GRANDMOTHER’S PHONE BEFORE FALLING ASLEEP ON THE COUCH. LEE FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND HER BOND WAS SET AT OVER A MILLION DOLLARS.
THE OLD STANDARD MERCANTILE BUILDING IN THE CENTER OF DERIDDER, WHICH WAS BUILT IN NINETEEN-SEVENTEEN, IS BEING RENOVATED. MAC COURVELLE AND HIS WIFE RECEIVED A LOUISIANA MAIN STREET REVITALIZATION GRANT AND CONSTRUCTION IS UNDERWAY. THE COURVELLES HAVE OPERATED TREASURE CITY MARKET IN THE BUILDING FOR TWENTY YEARS. MAC COURVELLE TELLS KPLC TV THAT THEY HAVE TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT BY JUNE THIRTIETH TO COMPLY WITH THE GRANT.
A former hospice service owner in Broussard has been convicted on conspiracy and fraud charges in a $1.5 million Medicare scheme. U.S. Attorney Brandon Brown in Lafayette says in a Thursday news release that the verdict was returned against 50-year-old Kristal Glover-Wing of Broussard. Prosecutors said that over about nine years, Glover-Wing’s Angel Care Hospice arranged for 24 people to get services who did not qualify for the business’s end-of-life care. The release says many of the patients are today still alive and thriving and had not been told they had been signed up for hospice care.
A STUDENT WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY FOR MAKING A THREAT THAT LED TO A LOCKDOWN AT CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL. A NOTE WAS LEFT ON A STAFF MEMBER’S DESK YESTERDAY MORNING WITH A THREAT TO SHOOT UP THE SCHOOL. DURING AN INVESTIGATION, A PERSON OF INTEREST WAS IDENTIFIED, ACCORDING TO A NEWS RELEASE FROM THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE. A JUVENILE WAS CHARGED WITH TERRORIZING.
THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS MADE THREE ARRESTS IN CONNECTION WITH THREE SEPARATE SCHOOL BOMB THREATS LAST MONTH. THE BOMB THREATS WERE DIRECTED AT BREAUX BRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL AND TWICE AT CECILIA HIGH SCHOOL. THEY ARRESTED TWO JUVENILE MALES AND ONE JUVENILE FEMALE, ALL SEVENTEEN-YEARS-OLD. TWO OF THE ARRESTS WERE MADE THIS WEEK. EACH OF THE THREE WERE BOOKED AND THEN RELEASED TO THE CUSTODY OF THEIR PARENTS.
A LAFAYETTE MAN, WANTED FOR MULTIPLE BURGLARIES AT CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS, HAS BEEN FOUND AND ARRESTED. SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD PHILLIP WILSON WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON TEN COUNTS OF SIMPLE BURGLARY. THE BURGLARIES ALL HAPPENED IN THE LAFAYETTE AREA OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS.
SAINT LANDRY PARISH PRESIDENT JESSIE BELLARD SAYS THE PARISH COUNCIL HAS VIOLATED THE CHARTER WITH A RESOLUTION THEY PUBLISHED AND HE’S READY TO TAKE THE MATTER TO COURT IF NECESSARY. THE RESOLUTION WOULD ALLOW THE COUNCIL TO HIRE INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS TO DETERMINE IF RECENT EMPLOYEE TERMINATIONS WERE JUSTIFIED. IN MARCH, BELLARD WAS ACCUSED OF THE WRONGFUL TERMINATIONS OF MULTIPLE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, WHICH, HE SAYS, IS FALSE. BELLARD SAYS THE COUNCIL DID NOT GIVE THE SPECIFICS OF WHAT THE INVESTIGATION WOULD BE ABOUT IN THE RESOLUTION THEY PUBLISHED, WHICH IS REQUIRED BY THE CHARTER.
