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WHICH WAS FOUND IN A BLOOD SOAKED BLANKET NEAR A LEVEE IN PORT BARRE. THE DEPUTIES WERE IN THE AREA TO ASSIST THE VICTIM OF AN A-T-V CRASH YESTERDAY WHEN THEY NOTICED THE BLANKET NEAR THE WATER’S EDGE. WHEN THEY UNWRAPPED IT, THEY FOUND THE DECOMPOSED BODY OF THE WOMAN. SHERIFF BOBBY GUIDROZ SAYS THEY ARE NOT RELEASING THE NAME OF THE VICTIM OR THE CAUSE OF DEATH YET, BUT HE DID SAY THE WOMAN HAD BEEN REPORTED AS A MISSING PERSON IN ST. MARTIN PARISH.
A TEXAS MAN WAS ARRESTED IN CALCASIEU PARISH ON A FOURTH OFFENSE
D-W-I. A STATE TROOPER NOTICED A CAR BEING DRIVEN ERRATICALLY YESTERDAY ON L-A 108 SOUTH OF I-TEN AND PULLED HIM OVER. SERGEANT JAMES ANDERSON OF STATE POLICE SAYS THE TROOPER ARRESTED 46-YEAR-OLD LUIS F. RUBIO OF LAREDO, TEXAS BECAUSE HE SHOWED OBVIOUS SIGNS OF IMPAIRMENT. THE STATE POLICE HAD TO GET A JUDGE TO APPROVE A NO REFUSAL SEARCH WARRANT BECAUSE RUBIO WAS UNCOOPERATIVE.
A SHOOTING IN CROWLEY OVER THE WEEKEND LEFT THREE MEN INJURED AND CROWLEY POLICE SAY THEY HAVE DETAINED A PERSON OF INTEREST. JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.
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Louisiana will end the food stamp program that helps nearly one in five state residents by January, unless lawmakers add more money to next year’s budget for the social services agency. The Department of Children and Family Services is slated to take a cut around $34 million in the budget passed by lawmakers in the last special session. The agency says that will force it to shutter the food stamp program in 2019 because it won’t be able to pay for administration of the federally-funded benefits. Gov. John Bel Edwards is calling lawmakers into a 10-day special session on taxes later this month to try to fill gaps in next year’s budget.
Louisiana’s public school teachers will be allowed paid leaves of absence for up to 30 days after adopting a child. Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed into law the measure by Rep. Rick Edmonds, a Baton Rouge Republican, requiring school districts to grant the leave time. Schools already had been required to allow maternity leave for teachers and certain other school employees. Edmonds’ bill extends the provisions to include adoption.
A GRAND JURY ON FRIDAY INDICTED THE IBERIA PARISH CLERK OF COURT ON FOURTEEN CORRUPTION-RELATED COUNTS. THE CHARGES AGAINST MICHAEL THIBODEAUX INCLUDE RACKETEERING, THEFT, MALFEASANCE, FALSIFYING PUBLIC RECORDS AND PERJURY. THE CHARGES DATE BACK TO 1998 WITH THE MOST RECENT BEING THURSDAY, WHEN HE WAS ACCUSED OF PROVIDING FALSE TESTIMONY IN A JUDICIAL PROCEEDING. A NUMBER OF THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THIBODEAUX COME FROM AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORT FROM THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR’S OFFICE IN 2016.
IN LAKE CHARLES FRIDAY, A MAN CONVICTED FOR THE DEATH OF LINDA MOORE IN 2010 WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON. ROMAN LASTRAPES HAS DENIED KILLING MOORE. THE JUDGE, MIKE CANADY, REFUSED A DEFENSE MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL BEFORE PASSING THE SENTENCE. DEFENSE ATTORNEY RICHARD WHITE SAYS HE ASSUMED THE CASE BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL ATTORNEY DIED. HE SAYS HE WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD THE CASE DECIDED BY A JUDGE INSTEAD OF A JURY, WHICH WAS SET UP BY THE ORIGINAL ATTORNEY.
A MORSE MAN WAS ARRESTED SATURDAY FOR A CAR CRASH LAST MONTH THAT CLAIMED THE LIFE OF TWO PASSENGER IN HIS VEHICLE. 21-YEAR-OLD JOHNATHAN PATIN WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON L-A 92 WHEN HE DROVE OFF THE ROAD AND STRUCK A CULVERT, RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF 32-YEAR-OLD KRISS STOUTE, ALSO OF MORSE, AND 21-YEAR-OLD CADE SONNIER OF GUEYDAN. STATE POLICE, BELIEVING HE WAS SPEEDING AND IMPAIRED, OBTAINED A TOXICOLOGY SAMPLE AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH. HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL ON A NUMBER OF CHARGES INCLUDING TWO COUNTS OF VEHICULAR NEGLIGENT HOMOCIDE.
