5-15-25
EUNICE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF AN INMATE AT THE CITY JAIL AND ARE AWAITING AUTOPSY RESULTS. INMATES NOTIFIED OFFICERS THAT FIFTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD JAMES BOOKSH WAS NOT BREATHING WHILE LYING ON A MATTRESS IN THE BULLPEN AREA. POLICE CHIEF KYLE LEBOUEF SAYS THEY PERFORMED LIFE-SAVING MEASURES BUT WERE UNABLE TO REVIVE HIM. BOOKSH HAD BEEN ARRESTED ON MAY NINTH FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE BATTERY AND LEBOUEF SAYS THEY LATER FOUND OUT THAT HE HAD A HISTORY OF MEDICAL ISSUES.
KADN TV IS REPORTING THAT A POWER POLE THAT FELL OVER IN A MULTI-VEHICLE CRASH ON JOHNSTON STREET TUESDAY WAS APPARENTLY NOT HIT BY VEHICLES. A WITNESS, MATT FANGUY, SAYS HE WATCHED AS THE POLE SLOWLY FELL OVER WITHOUT BEING HIT. THE OWNER OF TOPS, SHERRY LETORY, SAYS THE POLE HAD BEEN ROTTING OVER THE YEARS AND WAS ON ITS LAST LEG. L-U-S SPOKESWOMAN HEIDI TWEEDEL SAYS THEIR POLES DON’T TYPICALLY BREAK AND THE UTILITY IS INVESTIGATING.
LAST WEEK, THE SEGUS JOLIVETTE ACT WAS INTRODUCED TO LEGISLATORS TO IMIPLEMENT HARSHER SENTENCES FOR REPEAT OFFENDERS. LAYNE MILLER HAS MORE.
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A CALCASIEU PARISH CORRECTIONS DEPUTY AT THE CALCASIEU CORRECTIONAL CENTER WAS ARRESTED TUESDAY FOR ALLEGEDLY BRINGING CONTRABAND INTO THE PRISON. TWENTY-YEAR-OLD DALRONIQUE ROSS OF LAKE CHARLES HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE AND INTRODUCTION OF CONTRABAND INTO A PENAL FACILITY. AN INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT ROSS CONSPIRED WITH OTHERS TO PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTE PAPER SPRAYED WITH SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS INTO THE CENTER. SHE WAS FIRED BY THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE ON MAY SIXTH.
THE WORLD’S FIRST NET-ZERO EMISSIONS REFINERY WILL BE BUILT SOMEWHERE IN ACADIA PARISH. CLEAN REFINERIES INCORPORATED ANNOUNCED THEY WILL SPEND ONE BILLION DOLLARS TO BUILD THE FACILITY, WHICH WILL PRODUCE MARINE-GRADE BUNKER FUEL, HIGH-PERFORMANCE ASPHALT, AND ULTRA-CLEAN DIESEL. THE COMPANY’S NET-ZERO EMISSIONS TECHNOLOGY IS DESIGNED TO ENSURE THERE ARE NO TOXIC EMISSIONS OR DETECTABLE ODORS AND IT SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES THE CARBON FOOTPRINT. THE NEW REFINERY IS EXPECTED TO CREATE ONE HUNDRED SIXTY DIRECT JOBS WITH SALARIES STARTING AT OVER ONE HUNDRED FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
A TRAFFIC STOP IN LAFAYETTE FRIDAY RESULTED IN THE DISCOVERY OF NEARLY TWENTY POUNDS OF MARIJUANA WITH A STREET VALUE OF ALMOST ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. THEY ALSO FOUND MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH AND THREE FIREARMS. IT LED TO A SEARCH WARRANT BEING EXECUTED AT A RESIDENCE ON LAKEPOINTE DRIVE, WHERE THEY FOUND MORE MARIJUANA, ANOTHER HANDGUN, AND A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF CASH. THREE MEN WERE ARRESTED AND BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON DRUG AND WEAPONS CHARGES.
MEASLES AND WHOOPING COUGH CASES ARE ON THE RISE IN THE NATION. NO NEW MEASLES CASES HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED IN LOUISIANA, ACCORDING TO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SECRETARY BRUCE GREENSTEIN, BUT HE SAYS WHOOPING COUGH CASES CONTINUE TO INCREASE. THE NUMBER OF WHOOPING COUGH CASES ARE UP TO ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY AS OF YESTERDAY, WHICH SURPASSES LAST YEAR’S TOTAL OF ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR. GREENSTEIN SAYS BOTH DISEASES ARE VACCINE PREVENTABLE.
THIS WEEK IS NATIONAL POLICE WEEK AND A SPECIAL EVENT IS PLANNED FOR TONIGHT IN CROWLEY. A POLICE MEMORIAL PROGRAM WILL TAKE PLACE AT PARKERSON AVENUE BAPTIST. THE PROGRAM WILL BEGIN TONIGHT AT SIX. EVERYONE IS INVITED TO COME HONOR THOSE OFFICERS WHO MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE.
