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A WOMAN WAS ARRESTED FOR MAKING A BOMB THREAT AT PAUL BREAUX MIDDLE SCHOOL IN LAFAYETTE. SCHOOL OFFICIALS SAID A WOMAN TRESPASSED ON TO THE CAMPUS AT AROUND SEVEN A-M YESTERDAY AND WAS TAKING PICTURES WITH A TABLET. WHEN STAFF TRIED TO GET HER TO LEAVE THE PROPERTY, SHE ALLEGEDLY MADE THE BOMB THREAT. THE WOMAN HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS NAEEMA A. AHMED AND SHE WAS ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF CRIMINAL TRESPASSING AND TERRORIZING.
President Donald Trump plans to visit Cameron Parish next week to highlight job growth related to energy. The White House said Monday that Trump is scheduled to travel May 14 to Hackberry. The president plans to tour a shipping facility that uses trains to bring in liquefied natural gas for export overseas. The White House says Trump will discuss how energy infrastructure projects such as Sempra’s Cameron LNG Export Facility are creating American jobs.
EUNICE POLICE AND FIRE FIGHTERS WILL BE GETTING A PAY INCREASE WITH THE APPROVAL OF A SALES TAX OVER THE WEEKEND. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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A NEW HALF CENT SALES TAX APPROVED BY VOTERS IN ABBEVILLE SHOULD TAKE EFFECT BEGINNING IN OCTOBER. MAYOR PRO TEM FRANCIS TOUCHET SAYS THE FUNDS RAISED BY THE TAX WILL ALLOW THE CITY TO GIVE POLICE AND FIRE FIGHTERS A FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR A MONTH RAISE AND ALL MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES WILL RECEIVE A TWO DOLLAR PER HOUR RAISE. HE SAYS THIS WILL BRING THE CITY’S PAY GRADE UP TO THE LEVEL IT NEEDS TO BE COMPARED TO OTHER MUNICIPALITIES IN ACADIANA. POLICE CHIEF BILL SPEARMAN SAYS HE HOPES THE PAY RAISE WILL HELP HIM RETAIN OFFICERS.
A proposal to enact tougher abortion prohibitions in Louisiana, banning the procedure as early as five or six weeks of pregnancy, has won the support of state senators. The legislation by Sen. John Milkovich, a Keithville Democrat, would ban abortion if a fetal heartbeat is detected. Senators sent the bill to the House with a 31-5 vote Monday. But the prohibition only would take effect if a federal appeals court upholds a similar law in Mississippi.
Louisiana’s senators overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to end the state’s use of capital punishment. Republican Sen. Dan Claitor proposed to abolish use of the death penalty for any offenses committed starting in 2021 — if voters agreed in the 2020 election. Only 13 senators backed the idea Monday, while 25 opposed it. The legislation needed support from 26 senators to pass.
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARRESTED A MAN SATURDAY NIGHT FOR ALLEGEDLY POINTING A RIFLE FROM AN OPEN HOTEL ROOM WINDOW INTO THE PARKING LOT. AT AROUND 9:30 SATURDAY NIGHT, POLICE REPONDED TO REPORTS ABOUT THE MAN, WHO WAS SEEN WEARING A THICK WINTER MILITARY STYLE UNIFORM. OFFICERS IDENTIFIED THE ROOM, EVACUATED SEVERAL OTHER ROOMS AND THEN ENTERED THAT HOTEL ROOM, WHERE THEY FOUND 23-YEAR-OLD ALEX ORTUNO PACING IN FRONT OF THE WINDOW WITH A RIFLE IN HIS HAND. THE OFFICERS WERE ABLE TO CONFRONT AND ARREST HIM ON A CHARGE OF AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A RIFLE.
A SUSPECT IN A HOME INVASION IN BEAUREGARD PARISH WAS ARRESTED IN LAFAYETTE YESTERDAY MORNING. THE BEAUREGARD PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IDENTIFIED 44-YEAR-OLD EZRA COUTEE AS THE SUSPECT AND NOTIFIED THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE WHEN THEY LEARNED HE WAS IN LAFAYETTE. THE HOME INVASION HAPPENED LATE LAST MONTH. COUTEE IS BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND ON CHARGES OF FIRST DEGREE RAPE AND HOME INVASION.
