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JUSTIN ST. JULIEN, 27 OF LAFAYETTE, WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH AN ESTIMATED 6O PLUS TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. JULIEN WAS PULLED OVER BY AN OFFICER YESTERDAY AROUND 3. WHEN THE OFFICER GOT OUT OF HIS UNIT, ST. JULIEN SPED OFF, AND TRAVELED THROUGHOUT ABBEVILLE AND AROUND THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY LIMITS. DUE TO THE HIGH TRAFFIC ON THE ROADWAY AND EXCESSIVE SPEEDS BY ST.JULIEN, POLICE PULLED BACK WHILE ST.JULIEN WAS OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS. A FEW MINUTES LATER, ST.JULIEN WAS SPOTTED BY OTHER OFFICERS BACK IN THE CITY LIMITS AND DRIVING RECKLESS. AGAIN OFFICERS PURSUED ST.JULIEN AT HIGH SPEEDS TO THE DEAD END OF LAKE STREET, WHERE ST.JULIEN’S CHARGER WENT THROUGH THE YARD OF A RESIDENCE AND STOPPED NEAR THE VERMILION RIVER. ST.JULIEN GOT OUT OF HIS CAR AND BEGAN RUNNING, BUT WAS QUICKLY CAUGHT BY THE POLICE.
Lafayette General Health has added Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital to the list of Acadiana-area hospitals it is operating. The changeover happened yesterday. Officials say in a news release a new long-term lease agreement that expands the existing partnership with the rural hospital that began in 2002. Previously, Lafayette General provided only management services, such as executive strategy, financial analysis and group purchasing to the Kaplan hospital. A ceremony commemorating the lease agreement is planned in the fall when renovations at the hospital are expected to be complete. The Kaplan hospital has 50 licensed beds and 112 employees.
JULIE DARCY HAS THE DETAILS ON TWO PEOPLE THAT WERE SHOT DURING A HOME INVASION IN NEW IBERIA.
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YESTERDAY, THE CALCASIEU DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE ACCEPTED THEFT CHARGES IN TWO SEPARATE CASES AGAINST FAB CANTU, THE OWNER OF AQUATIC POOLS AND SPAS IN SULPHUR. THE CHARGES INCLUDE THEFT OVER $1,500 AND THEFT BETWEEN $750 AND $5,000. CANTU TURNED HIMSELF IN LAST NIGHT BEFORE ARREST WARRANTS WERE SERVED. CANTU ALSO FACES SEVERAL CIVIL CHARGES INCLUDING A SUIT AGAINST HIM FROM HENDERSON IMPLEMENT SEEKING $6,465 ALLEGEDLY OWED FOR EQUIPEMENT RENTAL. SOME OF CANTU’S CUSTOMERS AS FAR WEST AS BEAUMONT AND AS FAR EAST AS IBERIA PARISH CLAIM THAT CANTU TOOK THEIR MONEY AND LEFT THEM WITH A MESS OF UNFINISHED WORK IN THEIR BACKYARS.
JOSHUA VILLNAY, 30 FROM IOWA, WAS ARRESTED FOR THEFT OF UTILLITIES. HE USED WATER FROM A DISCONNECTED SERVICE AND DIDN’T PAY FOR IT. IOWA WATER DISTRICT EMPLOYEES NOTIFIED THE JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE THAT THE LOCK ON A METER AT A RESIDENCE HAD BEEN REMOVED AND RECONNECTED TO WATER LINES WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION AND WITHOUT A PROPER SAFETY VALVE TO PURIFY THE WATER. THE WATER SERVICE WAS DISCONNECTED IN EARLY MAY, BUT WATER EMPLOYEES FOUND LAST WEEK THAT THE RESIDENCE’S WATER LINE WAS CONNECTED TO THE DISTRICT’S WATER LINE WITHOUT A METER. VILLNAY WAS BOOKED INTO THE PARISH JAIL YESTERDAY.
(AP) Residents will get a chance to voice their opinions on a proposal to ban smoking in bars in New Iberia. The Daily Iberian reports that the City Council wants to hear from residents and businesses at a public hearing on the proposed ban today. Business owner Barry Guillotte owns several bars in downtown New Iberia and he opposes a ban. He said if there is a ban it should be imposed across the parish and not just within the city limits of New Iberia. He is worried that a ban within the city would hurt businesses like his because people would go to bars outside the city limits. In April New Orleans passed a ban on smoking in bars and that has prompted other cities to consider similar bans.
(AP) A package of bills aimed at steering more money to road repairs and bridge work across Louisiana is edging nearer to final legislative passage. The proposals by Sen. Robert Adley, the Senate transportation committee chairman, are an effort to chip away at the state’s $12 billion backlog of transportation needs. The constitutional amendments would change the rules of the state’s “rainy day” fund to help provide more financing for roadwork. They would steer dollars that currently would go into the rainy day fund instead to transportation work, generating an estimated $21 million over the next five years for projects — but much more in later years. The Senate-approved bills won support Monday in the House budget committee and head to the full House for consideration. They would need voter approval.
