6-10-22
A MORGAN CITY MAN HAS BEEN CHARGED AFTER FLEEING FROM CARENCRO POLICE EARLY MONDAY MORNING IN A STOLEN VEHICLE AND THEN CRASHING THE CAR, KILLING A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD PASSENGER. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD JAMARI TILLMAN WAS ARRESTED WEDNESDAY AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS TREATED FOR INJURIES SUSTAINED IN THE CRASH. HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING NEGLIGENT HOMOCIDE AND UNAUTHORIZED USE OF A MOVEABLE. HIS BOND WAS SET AT ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
THE OLDEST SALT MINE IN AMERICA HAS OFFICIALLY CLOSED. THE CARGILL AVERY ISLAND SALT MINE WAS THE FIRST SALT MINE IN THE COUNTRY AND OPERATED FOR NEARLY TWO CENTURIES. IBERIA PARISH PRESIDENT LARRY RICHARD TELLS KLFY TV THAT THE CLOSURE WILL HAVE A BIG IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY OF IBERIA PARISH AND THEY WILL BE MISSED. CARGILL HAS ANNOUNCED THAT THEY WILL BE EXPANDING CAPACITY AND EFFICIENCY AT THEIR BREAUX BRIDGE LOCATION.
The U.S. Justice Department is opening a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has looked the other way in the face of beatings of mostly Black men, including the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. The announcement of a “pattern-or-practice” probe comes more than three years after white troopers were captured on long-withheld body-camera video beating, stunning and dragging Greene on a rural roadside. No one has been charged in the case. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke says the probe is aimed at driving reforms the Justice Department could force through a federal consent decree.
Three subsidiaries of a Houston-based petrochemical company have settled allegations that they violated federal and state pollution control laws. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that Westlake Chemical Corporation agreed to make upgrades and perform compliance measures estimated to cost $110 million to resolve the complaint involving two facilities in Lake Charles and one in Calvert City, Kentucky. The companies will also pay a $1 million civil penalty. According to the complaint, the companies failed to properly operate and monitor their industrial flares, which resulted in excess emissions at the three facilities.
IT’S BEEN THREE MONTHS SINCE ELLA GOODIE OF SCOTT WENT MISSING AND STATE POLICE ARE NOW INVESTIGATING HER DISAPPEARANCE AS A HOMOCIDE. GOODIE WAS LAST SEEN MARCH NINTH LEAVING HER HOME TO PICK UP A PASSENGER TO DRIVE TO HOUSTON. HER CAR WAS SEEN DRIVING TOWARDS TEXAS ON INTERSTATE TEN AND THEN, TWELVE HOURS LATER, TRAFFIC CAMERAS SHOWED THE VEHICLE BEING DRIVEN BACK INTO LOUISIANA. A PERSON OF INTEREST IN THE DISAPPEARANCE, BRANDON FRANSISCO, WAS ARRESTED NEAR SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI BACK IN MARCH. ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE COME INTO CONTACT WITH GOODIE OR FRANSISCO IS ASKED TO CONTACT POLICE WITH THEIR INFORMATION.
OVER A DOZEN POLICE UNITS AND A SWAT TEAM SWARMED AN ABBEVILLE HOME THURSDAY AFTERNOON. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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A federal judge has refused to delay her order for Louisiana to redraw its congressional districts while the state’s top elections official appeals. Judge Shelly Dick had ruled Tuesday that the map violates the Voting Rights Act and must be redrawn by June 20 to add a second majority Black district. Court papers for Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin call the deadline “unworkable.” Dick on Thursday described the state’s argument as “insincere and not persuasive.”
THREE ESCAPED INMATES FROM EVANGELINE PARISH HAVE BEEN RECAPTURED. THE THREE, JOSEPH KIRKLIN, JUSTIN MELANCON AND ATTICUS MILLER, HAS ESCAPED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE EVANGELINE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE THANKED THE EUNICE AND MAMOU POLICE DEPARTMENTS FOR HELPING TO RECAPTURE THE INMATES. NO OTHER DETAILS WERE RELEASED.
