6-19-23
SUMMER SCHOOL AT EDGAR MARTIN MIDDLE SCHOOL IS BEING RELOCATED FOR TODAY. THAT’S BECAUSE OF A MAIN WATER LINE AT THE SCHOOL THAT EMERGENCY CREWS ARE REPAIRING. STUDENTS WHO ATTEND EDGAR MARTIN ARE BEING TOLD TO REPORT TO L-J ALLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR CLASS TODAY. SUMMER SCHOOL WILL RESUME AT EDGAR MARTIN MIDDLE TOMORROW.
A HOME IN OPELOUSAS WAS STRUCK BY SEVERAL ROUNDS OF GUNFIRE FRIDAY NIGHT. SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE IN THE HOME, WHICH IS LOCATED IN THE THIRTEEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF HENRY STREET, BUT NO ONE WAS INJURED. WITNESSES SAY THE SHOTS MAY HAVE BEEN FIRED FROM A SILVER SEDAN THAT WAS IN THE AREA AT THE TIME OF THE SHOOTING. OPELOUSAS POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING.
A SUSPECTED DRUG DEALER WAS ARRESTED IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH AFTER SHERIFF’S DETECTIVES AND DEPUTIES EXECUTED A SEARCH WARRANT. THEY FOUND NEARLY THREE POUNDS OF MARIJUANA ALONG WITH A DIGITAL SCALE AND PLASTIC BAGS USED FOR PACKAGING AND SELLING ILLEGAL NARCOTICS. THEY FOUND TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD STORMEY BATISTE OF JENNINGS SLEEPING WITH THREE FIREARMS INCLUDING ONE REPORTED STOLEN FROM WELSH. BATISTE WAS ARRESTED ON SEVERAL DRUG AND WEAPON CHARGES.
LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A MAN IN CONNECTION TO AN INCIDENT SUNDAY AFTERNOON. DANIELLE DUNCAN HAS THE DETAILS.
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THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE CONDUCTED AN OUTSTANDING WARRANT OPERATION THROUGHOUT THE PARISH. SHERIFF BECKET BREAUX SAYS NINETEEN PEOPLE WHO HAVE OUTSTANDING WARRANTS WERE ARRESTED. BREAUX SAYS HIS DEPUTIES HAD HELP FROM POLICE IN BREAUX BRIDGE, SAINT MARTINVILLE AND HENDERSON. ALL THOSE ARRESTED WERE BOOKED INTO THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER.
A FIRE BROKE OUT SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE CALCASIEU REFINING COMPANY ON WEST TANK FARM ROAD IN LAKE CHARLES. CREWS WERE DISMANTLING AN OLD TANK THAT HAD CAUGHT FIRE TWO WEEKS AGO. DICK GREMILLION OF THE OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS SAYS THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF LIQUID STILL IN THE TANK THAT IGNITED CAUSING A FLASH FIRE THAT PRODUCED A LOT OF SMOKE. HE SAYS THEY DECLARED A PRECAUTIONARY SHELTER IN PLACE FOR THE AREA THAT WAS LIFTED A HALF HOUR LATER BECAUSE THE FIRE WAS CONTAINED.
A SHOOTING IN JEANERETTE LEFT ONE PERSON DEAD AND ANOTHER INJURED. IT HAPPENED ON PEACH STREET SHORTLY AFTER FOUR P-M. THE FIRST VICTIM, WHOSE NAME HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED, WAS DECLARED DEAD WHILE THE INJURED PERON WAS AIRLIFTED TO A NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL. JEANERETTE POLICE HAVE FOOTAGE THEY ARE REVIEWING AS PART OF THEIR INVESTIGATION.
CROWLEY POLICE ARE SEEKING THE PUBLIC’S HELP IN FINDING THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR GUNSHOTS IN THE AREA OF WILLIAM EGAN AND TWELFTH STREETS. OFFICERS RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF GUNFIRE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND FOUND MORE THAN A DOZEN EMPTY CASINGS. IT’S POSSIBLE THE SHOTS WERE FIRED AT A BICYCLIST THOUGH NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED AND POLICE BELIEVE THE SHOTS MAY HAVE COME FROM AN OLDER-MODEL GOLD-COLORED HONDA. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CALL ACADIA CRIME STOPPERS AT SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE-TIPS.
