5-2-23
A FORMER TEACHER AT SAINT THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL IN LAFAYETTE, WHO FACES A CRIMINAL COMPLAINT FOR ATTEMPTED PRODUCTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, HAD HIS FIRST DAY IN COURT YESTERDAY. IN A CLOSED VIDEO CONFERENCE, JACOB DE LA PAZ WAS TOLD WHAT THE CHARGES ARE, WAS READ HIS RIGHTS AND THE NEXT COURT DATE WAS SCHEDULED. DE LA PAZ WAS ESCORTED OFF THE CAMPUS OF SAINT THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL ON WEDNESDAY, AND THEN ARRESTED IN YOUNGSVILLE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY. HE’S BEING HELD IN THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH JAIL WITH NO BOND.
VILLE PLATTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED LATE SUNDAY NIGHT. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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Louisiana lawmakers passed a bill in the House Monday that would extend the state’s motion picture tax credit program until 2035. The legislation, which advances to the Senate next, would allocate $150 million a year to film tax breaks. Opponents say that it is time for the incentive program to expire, slamming it for returning only pennies on the dollar to the state treasury. Critics say the money to fund the film tax breaks would be better spent in financially struggling sectors of the state budget, including education, infrastructure and law enforcement positions.
A LAKE ARTHUR MAN WHO WAS REPORTED MISSING HAS BEEN FOUND. FORTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD JUSTIN PARSLEY HAD NOT BEEN SEEN BY HIS FAMILY SINCE LAST AUGUST. PARSLEY WAS IN CALIFORNIA. HE WAS FOUND BY AUTHORITIES THERE AND WAS REPORTED SAFE.
LAFAYETTE POLICE DETECTIVES DO NOT BELIEVE A SHOOTING EARLY SUNDAY MORNING NEAR UNIVERSITY AVENUE AND WEST CONGRESS STREET INVOLVED GANG ACTIVITY, ACCORDING TO SERGEANT ROBIN GREEN. ONE PERSON WAS KILLED AND FIVE OTHERS WERE INJURED IN THE SHOOTING. GREEN SAYS DETECTIVES HAVE FOUND NO LINK BETWEEN IT AND ANOTHER FATAL SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED SATURDAY MORNING NEAR SIMCOE STREET. THE FAMILIES OF THE SHOOTING VICTIMS ON SUNDAY MORNING HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED BUT THE NAMES HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED DUE TO THEIR AGE.
A MOBILE HOME FIRE IN FRANKLIN LATE SUNDAY NIGHT IS UNDER INVESTIGATION AND SUSPICIOUS IN NATURE, ACCORDING TO FIRE CHIEF CHUCK BOURGEOIS. THE FIRST RESPONDING UNITS REPORTED HEAVY FIRE THROUGHOUT THE MOBILE HOME, WHICH WAS LOCATED IN THE FIFTEEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF RAILROAD AVENUE. THE MOBILE HOME WAS UNOCCUPIED. THE STRUCTURE IS A TOTAL LOSS.
THE LAFAYETTE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH HAS RELEASED FINAL GRADES FOR NINE HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE COMMUNITY WATER SYSTEMS ACROSS THE STATE. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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A BICYCLIST WAS KILLED IN A HIT-AND-RUN CRASH ON L-A NINETY-THREE IN THE SUNSET AREA. FIFTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD RANDY THIBODEAUX WAS FOUND DEAD IN A DITCH BY A FAMILY MEMBER, WHO HAD BEEN SEARCHING FOR HIM SINCE FRIDAY NIGHT. STATE POLICE WERE NOTIFIED ABOUT THE HIT-AND-RUN SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND ARE LOOKING FOR A METALLIC GREY TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN TO TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN HONDA ACCORD THAT WOULD BE MISSING A RIGHT-SIDE MIRROR AND HAVE DAMAGE ON THE RIGHT SIDE. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS URGED TO CALL STATE POLICE TROOP I AT TWO-SIX-TWO-FIFTY-EIGHT-EIGHTY.
