6-14-23
AN ACADIA PARISH MAN WAS BOOKED BY DUSON POLICE ON TWO FELONIES AND NINETEEN MISDEMEANORS FOR FORCING A SCHOOL BUS TO STOP ON HIGHWAY NINETY IN DUSON ON JUNE SIXTH. THE BUS CONTAINED THE RAYNE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM AND THE BUS DRIVER WAS THE TEAM’S COACH. SIXTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD KENNETH NAVARRE CLAIMS THE BUS WAS BEING DRIVEN ERRATICALLY AND HE FORCED THE BUS DRIVER TO STOP IN ORDER TO GET HIS NAME AND REPORT HIM. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT VIEWED SURVEILLANCE VIDEOS IN THE AREA AND WERE NOT ABLE TO CORROBORATE HIS CLAIMS.
LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE MADE THEIR FINAL ARREST IN THE HEYMANN PARK SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED MAY SEVENTH. THREE PEOPLE WERE WOUNDED IN THE INCIDENT INCLUDING ONE CRITICALLY. THE LATEST ARREST HAPPENED MONDAY WHEN TWENTY-YEAR-OLD TRAVIS NIXON WAS BOOKED ON THREE CHARGES INCLUDING ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. A TOTAL OF FOUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CHARGED IN CONNECTION TO THE SHOOTING.
A SUSPECT IN A STOLEN VEHICLE INVESTIGATION LED LAKE CHARLES POLICE AND STATE POLICE ON A HIGH-SPEED CHASE ON I-TEN EAST. STATE POLICE TROOPER FIRST CLASS DEREK SENEGAL SAYS THE CHASE ENDED WHEN THE SUSPECT STOPPED IN JENNINGS. LAKE CHARLES POLICE TOOK HIM INTO CUSTODY. HIS IDENTITY HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED.
FORT POLK HAS BEEN FORMALLY RENAMED FORT JOHNSON, NAMED AFTER SERGEANT WILLIAM HENRY JOHNSON, A BLACK SOLDIER WHO WAS A HERO IN WORLD WAR ONE. THE ARMY BASE HAD BEEN NAMED AFTER CONFEDERATE COMMANDER LIEUTENANT GENERAL LEONIDAS POLK. THIS IS THE LATEST IN AN ONGOING CAMPAIGN TO REMOVE CONFEDERATE LEADER’S NAMES FROM MILITARY BASES. A RENAMING CEREMONY WAS HELD YESTERDAY MORNING.
A COOK AT THE VERMILLION PARISH JAIL HAS BEEN ARRESTED AND FIRED AFTER, AUTHORITIES SAY, SHE SMUGGLED DRUGS INTO THE JAIL. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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A SPECIALTY MEATS MARKET IN YOUNGSVILLE IS CLOSING ITS DOORS. A FACEBOOK POST FOR CAJUN MARKETS MEATS ANNOUNCED THE ENDING OF OPERATIONS AT SEVEN TOMORROW EVENING. THE STORE IS LOCATED AT TWENTY-EIGHT-TEN CHEMIN METARIE PARKWAY. THE POST SAYS THEY ARE MAKING SOME CHANGES AND A RETURN TO YOUNGSVILLE IS POSSIBLE.
THE ALLEN PARISH SCHOOL BOARD MET YESTERDAY TO DISCUSS THE POSSIBILITY OF HIRING AN INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT. THE BOARD HAS HAD FIVE VOTES SO FAR TO NAME A NEW SUPERINTENDENT BUT THEY ALL HAVE FINISHED IN A TIE. ATTORNEY ROBERT HAMMONDS OF THE LOUISIANA SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION MET WITH THE BOARD TO ADVISE THEM, CLARIFY RULES AND MAKE SUGGESTIONS. THE BOARD WILL MEET AGAIN ON JUNE TWENTY-SIXTH TO DISCUSS NAMES FOR A POSSIBLE INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT.
Nearly all of Louisiana’s death row inmates are asking term-limited Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards to spare their lives and grant them clemency. Edwards recently voiced his support for a bill to abolish the death penalty in Louisiana. The legislation failed. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections said in May that 60 people sit on Louisiana’s death row.
