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THE OWNER OF CAJUN CANNABIS, WHO RECENTLY BONDED OUT OF JAIL, SAYS HE PLANS TO REOPEN HIS BUSINESS. TRAVIS DEYOUNG WAS ARRESTED ONE WEEK AGO ON SEVENTEEN CHARGES, INCLUDING FELONY POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA AND TWO COUNTS OF POSSESSION OF A FIREARM IN THE PRESENCE OF CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES. DEYOUNG TELLS THE ADVOCATE THAT THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO ILLEGAL PRODUCTS OR MARIJUANA SOLD AT THE STORE AND NO PERSON HAS BEEN HARMED IN THE OPERATION OF HIS BUSINESS. HIS ATTORNEY, MICHAEL DOMINGUE, SAYS HIS CLIENT WILL NOT BE OFFERING C-B-D OILS OR OTHER PRODUCTS FOR THE TIME BEING, BUT WILL WORK WITH THE CITY PARISH GOVERNMENT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT TO GET THOSE PRODUCTS BACK INTO THE STORE.
A LAKE CHARLES MAN IS ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS WIFE LAST NIGHT. POLICE RESPONDED TO A SHOOTING NEAR GIEFFERS STREET AND NORTH FIRST AVENUE LAST NIGHT AT 10:13. WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY FOUND THAT 51-YEAR-OLD EDWINA CAMPBELL OF LAKE CHARLES HAD BEEN SHOT AND KILLED. HER HUSBAND, 44-YEAR-OLD HAROLD CAMPBELL WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AND CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE PLANS TO VISIT ST. LANDRY PARISH TOMORROW TO SHOW SUPPORT TO THE THREE PREDOMINANTLY BLACK CHURCHES THAT WERE DESTROYED BY FIRE IN LATE MARCH AND EARLY APRIL. PENCE WILL VISIT MT. PLEASANT BAPTIST CHURCH IN OPELOUSAS AND VISIT WITH THE REVEREND GERALD TOUSSAINT AND OTHER COMMUNITY LEADERS. THE SON OF A ST. LANDRY PARISH DEPUTY, HOLDEN MATTHEWS, WAS ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE FIRES AND IS BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND ON ARSON AND HATE CRIME CHARGES. AFTER HIS ARREST, AUTHORITIES SAID THEY FOUND VIDEOS OF THE FIRES ON MATTHEWS CELL PHONE.
Lawmakers are considering whether to make secret information about anyone who helps facilitate an execution in Louisiana, a measure edging forward in the House.
The proposal is aimed at restarting lethal injections in a state where executions have been stalled for nearly a decade. The legislation by Republican Rep. Nicholas Muscarello of Hammond would shield information about the person or company that manufactures, supplies, transports or prescribes drugs for an execution. The House criminal justice committee advanced the bill Wednesday without objection, sending it to the House floor.
Louisiana would expand its “stand your ground” law to protect people who use deadly force in churches, under a bill heading to the full House for debate. The House criminal justice committee backed the measure in a 9-8 vote Wednesday, on a party line decision with Democrats entirely in opposition. Rep. Beryl Amedee, a Republican from Houma, is proposing to add churches, synagogues, mosques and other places of worship to the list of locations where Louisiana residents can use deadly force “to prevent unlawful entry” or “compel an unlawful intruder to leave.”
The list already includes a person’s home, place of business and vehicle.
THE MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING DAISY LYNN LANDRY HAS BEEN INDICTED BY A LAFAYETTE PARISH GRAND JURY ON ANOTHER CHARGE. MALIK DAVIS OF LAFAYETTE WAS INDICTED FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE. HE’S ACCUSED OF TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE IN ORDER TO DISTORT THE RESULTS OF A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. DAVIS WAS CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER ON MAY 31ST OF 2017, THOUGH LANDRY’S BODY HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND.
A teacher at a school in Lake Charles has been arrested for alleged sexual misconduct with a student. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office says 34-year-old Deidre R. Smith, of Sulphur, faces charges of first-degree rape and felony indecent behavior with a juvenile. KPLC-TV reports Smith was released after posting $50,000 bond set by state District Judge Robert Wyatt. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Kim Myers says Smith teaches at Lake Charles Charter Academy and the alleged victim is 10-years-old.
THE CROWLEY POLICE DEPARTMENT IS FACING AN OFFICER SHORTAGE. POLICE CHIEF JIMMY BROUSSARD SAYS THEY SHOULD HAVE FIVE OFFICERS PATROLLING PER SHIFT, BUT THEY ARE OPERATING WITH TWO OR THREE. DESPITE THE SHORTAGE, BROUSSARD TELLS KATC TV THAT THEIR RESPONSE TIME HAS NOT BEEN AFFECTED, WITH THE HELP OF FIFTEEN RESERVE OFFICERS WHO VOLUNTEER WHEN NEEDED. BROUSSARD SAYS HE EXPECTS THE FORCE TO BE BACK AT CAPACITY SOON.
