KAJN Jesus FM 102.9


5-3-19

CROWLEY POLICE HAVE LOCATED AND ARRESTED A MAN WHO SHOT ANOTHER MAN LAST SATURDAY ON DORN STREET, BUT THE MAN WHO WAS SHOT HAS NOW ALSO BEEN ARRESTED.   THE SHOOTER IS 25-YEAR-OLD SCOTT PAUL JOHNSON AND IS BEING CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED SECOND DEGREE BATTERY AND FOR BEING A FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM.  THE MAN WHO WAS SHOT, 52-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH NORRIS ROMERO OF RAYNE, ALLEGEDLY BROKE INTO A HOME ON DORN STREET AND, WHEN A WOMAN AT THE HOUSE TRIED TO LEAVE BY CAR, ROMERO BROKE A WINDOW AND GOT INTO THE CAR BEFORE JOHNSON SHOT HIM.  ROMERO IS BEING CHARGED WITH HOME INVASION.

 

TWO JEANERETTE MEN WERE ARRESTED FOR BEING IN POSSESSION OF A STOLEN VEHICLE FROM LAKE CHARLES.  IT WAS LATER LEARNED THAT THE VEHICLE HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN SEVERAL BURGLARIES IN RAYNE.  PAC MAN MARTIN WITH THE JEANERETTE MARSHAL’S OFFICE ARRESTED 20-YEAR-OLD TYRESE JONES AND 20-YEAR-OLD GEONTRE BOB.  JONES FACES 7 COUNTS OF SIMPLE BURGLARY AND EIGHT COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED SIMPLE BURGLARY IN CONNECTION TO THE BURGLARIES IN RAYNE.

 

Vice President Mike Pence is coming to St. Landry Parish to show his support for members of three black churches burned by an arsonist.  Pence is scheduled to meet with community leaders and parishioners of the three churches.  He’s also slated to visit Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, one of the burned churches.  The Rev. Gerald Toussaint says he and reverends from the other burned churches will also meet with the vice president.

 

The Trump administration is easing safety rules adopted after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon blowout, the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history.  The Interior Department released a final rule revision Thursday in Port Fourchon, a hub of offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The rules pertain to procedures and inspections for offshore oil rigs.  Interior Secretary David Bernhardt says the administration is proposing elimination of “unnecessary regulatory burdens while maintaining safety and environmental protection offshore.”

 

A LAFAYETTE SCHOOL BUS WAS INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.  IT WAS A MINOR CRASH THAT HAPPENED AT AROUND 3:15 ON SOUTH COLLEGE DRIVE.  NO CHILDREN WERE INJURED AND THE BUS CONTINUED ON ITS NORMAL ROUTE AFTER A DELAY OF ABOUT 25 MINUTES.  THE SCHOOL SYSTEM HAS INDICATED THAT THEIR POLICIES AFTER AN ACCIDENT ARE BEING FOLLOWED.

 

 

BOND HAS BEEN SET AT FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR DEIDRE SMITH, THE LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY TEACHER CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE RAPE AND INDECENT BEHAVIOR OF A JUVENILE.  KPLC TV FOUND THAT BONDS FOR OTHERS CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE RAPE OVER THE LAST YEAR HAVE VARIED BETWEEN 100 THOUSAND AND 750 THOUSAND DOLLARs.  DISTRICT ATTORNEY JOHN DEROSIER SAYS THERE ARE SEVERAL FACTORS IN THE DECISION INCLUDING THE SEVERITY OF THE CRIME AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF ANOTHER SIMILAR CRIME BEING COMMITTED WHILE THE SUSPECT AWAITS TRIAL.  HE SAYS HE WON’T SECOND GUESS ANY JUDGE’S DECISIONS ON BOND AMOUNTS.

 

RAYNE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A CASE OF VANDALISM AT A CEMETARY.  JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.

 

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A bid to make secret information about anyone who provides drugs or medical equipment for Louisiana executions has been diverted for more committee review before it can reach the full House for debate.  The proposal by Republican Rep. Nicholas Muscarello of Hammond is aimed at restarting lethal injections in a state that held its last execution in 2010.  The House criminal justice committee advanced the legislation Wednesday without objection. The House redirected the bill Thursday to a second committee that considers public records exemptions.