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5-12-17

AP— A Louisiana State Police trooper and at least one other officer have been shot during a standoff with Brandon Arthur Carpenter, who they’d tried to serve a warrant on in rural Avoyelles Parish, in Hessmer. State police spokesman Maj. M. Doug Cain says the officers were taken yesterday to area hospitals for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. Their names have not been released. Cain says Carpenter was taken into custody about 7:20 p.m. He had been barricaded inside a house. Further details were not immediately provided.

 

STEPHEN M. GUYNES, 41, TURNED HIMSELF IN AT THE CALCASIEU CORRECTIONAL CENTER YESTERDAY MORNING. GUYNES IS THE SECOND PERSON ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING AT PINEDEROSA PARK SUNDAY EVENING AFTER A CONFRONTATION BETWEEN MOTORCYCLE CLUBS LED TO A SHOOTING INJURYING TWO PEOPLE. GUYNES IS A VETERAN AND SAID THE REASON HE TURNED HIMSELF IN WAS OUT OF RESPECT FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE COMMUNITY, BUT IS NOT ADMITTING TO THE CRIME. GUYNES IS CHARGED WITH ATTEMPED FIRST DEGREE MURDER, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND ILLEGAL USE OF A DANGEROUS WEAPON. BRYAN McGOWAN, 30 OF SULPHUR, WAS ARRESTED WEDNESDAY ON CHARGES OF ACCESSORY TO ATTEMPED FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY. BOND WAS SET AT $350,000 FOR BOTH GUYNES AND McGOWAN.

 

Duson police have new evidence and are asking the public for help in an armed robbery case that took place at the Lucky Deuces casino last weekend. Authorities have a vehicle of interest and two persons of interest. Two people were initially arrested in connection with the robbery on Tuesday. Yesterday, police chief Kip Judice said that new evidence is pointing to two different suspects. One suspect is described as a six-foot-tall black male and the other is a very thin black female. The two entered the store with a gun and knife and then demanded money. The pair fled the scene in a 2014/2015 white Kia Optima. Judice said surveillance video of another crime shows key evidence that could lead investigators to the suspects. According to Judice, the black female would have sustained a very serious injury to her left knee or leg area early Wednesday morning. If anyone has any information in connection to this crime, contact the Lafayette or Acadia parish crime stoppers.

 

A WHITE MAN AND TWO WHITE WOMEN WERE CAUGHT ON VIDEO SURVEILLANCE BREAKING INTO CANCUN MEXICAN RESTAURANT ON RYAN STREET SUNDAY EVENING AT ABOUT 5:11. THE WOMEN REFER TO THE MAN AS “COOKIE”. THE VIDEO ALSO INDICATES THAT THEY NOTICED THE VIDEO CAMERAS AND SAY THEY NEED TO LEAVE BEFORE POLICE GET THERE. THEY STOLE A VARIETY OF ITEMS INSIDE THE RESTAURANT. ANYONE WITH ANY IMFORMATION IS ASKED TO CONTACT LAKE CHARLES POLICE AT 491-1311.

 

A POTENTIAL 200 JOBS COMING TO LAFAYETTE.  JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.

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Authorities at the LaSalle Correctional Center notified St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s office that inmate Philip Lafleur, 23, of Eunice, wanted to talk with detectives about the disappearance of Dale Lafleur. Deputies traveled to the jail where Philip Lafleur gave a full confession on video to killing Dale Lafleur, his great-uncle. Lafleur said he wanted money from his uncle but he was delaying giving him the money. After killing his great uncle, Philip Lafleur confessed to driving his uncle’s car into the Atchafalaya River across from Krotz Springs with his body buckled into the passenger seat. “He took us to this location where he said he killed his great-uncle, buckled him in a seat belt and pushed his body into the river,” said Sheriff Guidroz. Guidroz said they are now searching the Atchafalaya River to locate the missing body and vehicle. Philip Lafleur confessed in February 2016 to the murder of Akeem Caesar, 22 of Eunice, who had been missing since December 24, 2015. Candice Vidrine, 22, also of Eunice, was indicted for accessory after the fact to the second-degree murder of Ceasar. Philip Lafleur and Candice Vidrine were arrested in San Agnelo, Texas on February 14, 2016 where authorities say they fled to after Caesar’s murder. They were then extradited to St. Landry Parish.

 

AP— Nine months after being caught in a shrimper’s trawl, a young endangered sea turtle named Raye is back in the wild in south Louisiana. The Audubon Nature Institute and Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said yesterday that the male Kemp’s ridley sea turtle was released Wednesday in a lake near the offshore area where he was accidentally caught July 26.

The agencies say shrimper Bobby Aguillard called federal authorities to report catching the turtle, and brought the animal to shore in Cameron Parish. State wildlife biologists brought him to Audubon, where a veterinarian found it was dehydrated and underweight, and had a mouth and shoulder injury. The staff at Audubon’s Coastal Wildlife Network fed him through a tube for a few days, until he could eat on his own.

 

AP— Lawyers who won a decision overturning a Louisiana abortion law say the state should pay them $4.7 million in fees and expenses. Lawyers representing abortion clinics have asked a Baton Rouge federal judge to approve the amount. Yesterday the judge gave the state’s lawyers three weeks to respond. A motion filed Wednesday says 16 attorneys, clerks and paralegals put in about 6,900 hours of work over three years. They say that adds up to $4.5 million worth of work, plus $187,000 for expenses including travel and research. The law would have required doctors who perform abortions to have permission to admit patients to a hospital within 30 miles  of their clinic. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles said it was unconstitutional under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against a similar Texas law.