5-16-23
A DRIVER WHO GOT INTO A CRASH ON E BROUSSARD ROAD IN LAFAYETTE AT AROUND THREE-THIRTY MONDAY MORNING HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR OPERATING WHILE INTOXICATED AND FIRST DEGREE VEHICULAR NEGLIGENT INJURING. THE DRIVER STRUCK TWO MAILBOXES, A UTILITY POLE AND A CULVERT. LAFAYETTE POLICE SAW SIGNS OF IMPAIRMENT AND A WARRANT WAS OBTAINED FOR A BLOOD SAMPLE FROM THE DRIVER. A FIFTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD MAN, WHO WAS A PASSENGER IN THE VEHICLE, REMAINS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER BEING TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL.
SAINT LANDRY PARISH SHERIFF BOBBY GUIDROZ SAYS DETECTIVES IN HIS OFFICE DISCOVERED FRIDAY THAT A LAWYER WAS DOING MORE THAN PRACTICING LAW. FIFTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD LAURA MARLER WAS ARRESTED FRIDAY AFTER EIGHTY-EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS WORTH OF DRUGS WERE FOUND IN HER VEHICLE AND AT HER HOME. THEY ALSO FOUND NEARLY TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH AND FIFTEEN GUNS. MARLER FACES NUMEROUS DRUG AND WEAPONS CHARGES AND SHE WAS RELEASED AFTER POSTING A NINETY THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND.
THREE FARM WORKERS IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH WERE ARRESTED SATURDAY AFTER A FARMER REPORTED THEY POSSESSED NARCOTICS AND WERE SELLING HIS CRAWFISH AFTER WORK WITHOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE. THE FARMER ESTIMATED THE VALUE OF THE CRAWFISH TO BE NEARLY TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. THE THREE MEN WERE CHARGED WITH DRUG POSSESSION AND THEFT.
A PUSH TO INCREASE PAY FOR STATE LEGISLATORS FAILED AFTER MANY SAID IT IS NOT THE RIGHT TIME. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS MORE.
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LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A THIRD PERSON IN CONNECTION WITH A SHOOTING AT HEYMANN PARK. TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD KAYDEN NOEL OF LAFAYETTE WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. ON SUNDAY, MAY SEVENTH, THREE PEOPLE WERE WOUNDED WHEN A SHOOTING BROKE OUT AT AN IMPROMPTU PARTY. WITNESSES REPORTED MORE THAN A HUNDRED SHOTS WERE FIRED.
A MOTHER TELLS KLFY TV THAT A SENIOR PRANK WENT TO FAR. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS THE DETAILS.
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TWO ADULTS WERE ARRESTED SUNDAY AFTER GETTING IN A FIGHT IN A DITCH WITH SEVERAL JUVENILES. SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES PATROLLING HIGHWAY ONE-OH-ONE IN LACASSINE WERE NOTIFIED OF THE FIGHT BY A PASSERBY AND AN INVESTIGATION FOUND THE FIGHT BEGAN IN OBERLIN AND CONTINUED UNTIL ONE VEHICLE FORCED THE OTHER OFF THE HIGHWAY. THE TWO ADULTS ALLEGEDLY EXITED THEIR VEHICLE WITH A WHIP AND BAT AND BEGAN FIGHTING THE JUVENILES. TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD RAVEN LEIGH COLE OF LAFAYETTE AND TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD HUNTER WAYNE BLANCHARD WERE ARRESTED AND BOOKED INTO THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH JAIL.
EUNICE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR SUSPECTS IN A SHOOTING SUNDAY NIGHT IN THE AREA OF EAST MAPLE AVENUE AND HIGHWAY THIRTEEN SOUTH. FIFTY-YEAR-OLD KEVIN FRANK RECEIVED A GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE THIGH AND WAS TREATED AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL AND RELEASED. HE TOLD POLICE HE WAS SITTING IN HIS TRUCK TALKING TO A NEIGHBOR WHEN HE SAW THREE MALE SUBJECTS ACROSS THE STREET OPEN FIRE ON HIM. NO ONE ELSE WAS INJURED. POLICE FOUND TWENTY-ONE RIFLE CASINGS IN THE AREA.
