5-11-21
NEW IBERIA POLICE INTERCEPTED THE DELIVERY OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF CRYSTAL METH INTO THE CITY WITH THE HELP OF THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION. POLICE SAY THEY STOPPED AND SIEZED A DELIVERY OF MORE THAN THIRTY-SIX POUNDS OF METH, WITH A STREET VALUE OF OVER EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. THEY ALSO FOUND APPROXIMATELY FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF CASH AND JEWELRY. POLICE ARE NOT RELEASING ANY SUSPECTS NAMES DUE TO THE ONGOING INVESTIGATION.
BROUSSARD POLICE CHIEF BRANNON DECOU HAS ANNOUNCED THAT HE WILL RETIRE ON JUNE FIRST. DECOU HAS BEEN ON VOLUNTARY LEAVE BECAUSE OF AN INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT. HE IS ACCUSED OF SENDING INAPPROPRIATE PICTURES TO ONE OF HIS OFFICERS. MAYOR RAY BOURQUE SAYS HE RECEIVED DECOU’S LETTER OF RESIGNATION. HE AND THE CITY COUNCIL WILL WORK TO TOGETHER TO DETERMINE AN INTERIM CHIEF.
The Louisiana Senate has voted to require regular audits of the state’s elections by the legislative auditor. Senators sent the measure by Republican Sen. Heather Cloud of Turkey Creek to the House with a 27-10 vote Monday. All Republicans present for the vote backed the bill. All Democrats voted against it, except Norco Sen. Gary Smith, who supported the measure.
APPROVAL WAS GIVEN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A HOMELESS SHELTER AT THE CORNER OF SIXTH AVENUE AND THIRD STREET IN LAKE CHARLES. CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA PRESENTED THEIR PROPOSAL FOR THE SAINT JOSEPH REFUGE SHELTER FOR MEN AT THE LAKE CHARLES CITY PLANNING AND ZONING COMMITTEE MEETING. SOME RESIDENTS FROM THAT AREA EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT THE PRESENCE OF THE SHELTER WOULD LEAD TO A RISE IN SAFETY CONCERNS. ALL PARTIES INVOLVED AGREED THAT HOMELESSNESS IS AN INCREASING PROBLEM IN THE AREA AND THERE IS A NEED FOR A RESOLUTION.
A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD ABBEVILLE BOY IS DEAD AFTER A CRASH IN ST. LANDRY PARISH. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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The body of an 80-year-old man has been found in a Louisiana river where he was thrown in an April boat collision. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says the body of Robert Schoeffler of Lafayette was found Saturday in the Little Atchafalaya River near Butte La Rose. Schoeffler was a retired architect. A news release says Schoeffler’s boat was one of two that collided on April 29th.
LOUISIANA HAD JUST TWO DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, WHICH COVERED A THREE DAY PERIOD. THERE WERE SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES STATEWIDE, MOVING THE TOTAL PAST THREE HUNDRED NINETY-TWO THOUSAND TOTAL. THE NUMBER OF COVID-NINETEEN PATIENTS IN HOSPITALS DROPPED BY SEVEN. THERE ARE TWO FEWER PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS.
ACADIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA REPORTED NO NEW DEATHS OVER THE WEEKEND. ACADIANA HAD ONE HUNDRED SEVEN NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES, INCLUDING SIXTY-FOUR IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ADDED FIFTY-FIVE NEW CASES. CALCASIEU PARISH HAD FORTY-THREE CASES, WHICH PUTS THE TOTAL OVER SIXTEEN THOUSAND TOTAL FOR THE FIRST TIME. CAMERON PARISH HAS JUST ECLIPSED FIVE HUNDRED TOTAL CASES.
