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A CRASH ON L-A SEVEN-THIRTY-SEVEN IN SAINT MARTIN PARISH INVOLVING AN OFF-ROAD VEHICLE RESULTED IN ONE DEATH AT AROUND THREE-THIRTY SUNDAY MORNING. THE VICTIM, THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD SUMMER LE OF BUNKIE, WAS A PASSENGER ON THE OFF-ROAD VEHICLE, WHICH WAS STRUCK FROM BEHIND BY A FORD F-ONE-FIFY, DRIVEN BY SIXTY-YEAR-OLD JOSEPTH DAVIS OF ARNAUDVILLE. DAVIS WAS ARRESTED AFTER HIS BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL WAS FOUND TO BE MORE THAN THREE TIMES THE LEGAL LIMIT. DAVIS, WHO WAS NOT INJURED, WAS TAKEN TO THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER AND BOOKED ON A CHARGE OF VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE.
LAFAYETTE POLICE CONDUCTED LEGAL SEARCHES AT TWO HOMES LAST WEEK IN WHICH NEARLY A MILLION DOLLARS OF FENTANYL WAS SEIZED. THEY ALSO FOUND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF METH AND COCAINE AS WELL AS GUNS AND CASH. THE SEARCHES WERE CONDUCTED AT HOMES ON SYRUP ROW AND LANCASTER DRIVE. TWO MEN, WHO ARE RELATED, THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD TRAYVON CHARLES AND TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD JAKAYLEN CHARLES, WERE BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON NUMEROUS DRUG AND WEAPONS CHARGES.
DATA RELEASED BY THE LOUISIANA WORKFORCE COMMISSION SHOWS JOB GROWTH IN THE STATE. THE DATA SHOWS THE STATE’S TOTAL NON FARM EMPLOYMENT IN FEBRUARY WAS AT ONE MILLION, NINE HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED. THAT’S TEN THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED MORE JOBS THAN IN JANUARY. THE FEBRUARY TOTAL WAS TWO THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED MORE JOBS COMPARED TO LAST YEAR.
A FORMER BARBE HIGH SCHOOL PITCHER WILL APPEAR IN COURT TODAY SEEKING TO REVERSE HIS EXPULSION. LANDON VICTORIAN’S ATTORNEY, TODD CLEMONS, SAYS HE REVEALED A POCKETKNIFE TO HIS COACH AND THAT THE COACH HAD MADE VERBAL THREATS AGAINST HIM AND HIS FATHER. THE PETITION SAYS THE COACH TACKLED VICTORIAN AFTER SEEING THE KNIFE. CLEMONS SAYS VICTORIAN WAS HARRASSED AND BULLIED AND THE CALCASIEU PARISH SCHOOL BOARD DID NOT FOLLOW PROPER PROCEDURE AFTER THE INCIDENT.
ONE WEEK AGO, FIVE PEOPLE WERE WOUNDED IN A SHOOTING ON BREAUX ALLEY IN NEW IBERIA. MARIJUANA AND A HANDGUN WERE FOUND BY POLICE AT THE SCENE AND SEVERAL NEIGHBORS TELL KADN TV THAT PEOPLE WERE GAMBLING AT A HOME BEFORE THE SHOOTING HAPPENED. SEVERAL OF THE NEIGHBORS SAY THEY DON’T LET THEIR CHILDREN PLAY OUTSIDE ANYMORE OVER CONCERNS ABOUT SAFETY. SO FAR, NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING AND IT IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION.
A LAFAYETTE MAN WAS ARRESTED FOR NEGLIGENT HOMOCIDE AFTER ALLEGEDLY CAUSING A CRASH THAT KILLED A SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD WOMAN ON THURSDAY. THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA ALESI IS ACCUSED OF DRIVING TOO FAST. THE CRASH HAPPENED IN THE TWENTY-TWO-HUNDRED BLOCK OF MILLS STREET IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. TOXICOLOGY RESULTS ARE PENDING AND THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.
GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY IS CALLING ON THE N-C-DOUBLE-A TO SHOW SOME LEADERSHIP IN REGARD TO TEAMS BEING PRESENT FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. DANIELLE DUNCAN HAS MORE.
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A MELVILLE WOMAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER. POLICE SAY THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD KARI GANSON FIRED SHOTS INTO A HOUSE ON MELVILLE STREET ON WEDNESDAY. THEY SAY THE SHOOTING HAPPENED AFTER SOMEONE IN THE HOUSE REFUSED TO PAY TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS THAT WAS OWED TO GANSON.
