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6-20-18

LAST NIGHT LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF MARK GARBER PRESENTED HIS PROPOSAL FOR A NEW SALES TAX TO THE CONSOLIDATED COUNCIL.  GARBER SAYS HE PLANS TO ASK VOTERS ON DECEMBER EIGHTH TO APPROVE A PARISHWIDE THREE-QUARTER CENT SALES TAX, WHICH WOULD BE NEW IN MUNICIPALITIES WHILE LOWERING A ONE CENT SALES TAX IN THE UNINCORPORATED PARTS OF THE PARISH.  HE SAYS HALF OF THE AMOUNT COLLECTED IN THE LAFAYETTE CITY LIMITS WOULD GO TO THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT.  GARBER SAYS HE INITIALLY PLANNED TO ASK FOR A HALF CENT SALES TAX BUT INCREASED IT AFTER CITY OF LAFAYETTE POLICE OFFICERS APPROACHED HIM ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER.

 

Authorities say a Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s deputy accused of domestic abuse has been terminated.  Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Kim Myers says Lake Charles police arrested Louis Boling at his home on Monday on a charge of domestic abuse battery. Myers tells The Lake Charles American Press that Boling worked as a correctional officer for 12 years before being terminated by Sheriff Tony Mancuso.  Mancuso says he will not tolerate domestic physical violence by any deputy and holds his to a higher standard.

 

THE OPELOUSAS BOARD OF ALDERMEN HAS LOWERED THE SALARY OF THE POLICE CHIEF.  JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.

 

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A legal watchdog group claims Louisiana district attorneys are illegally padding their budgets by using off-duty police officers to write profit-driven traffic tickets that can be dismissed for a fee.  A complaint filed Tuesday by the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center asks the state’s ethics board to investigate and order district attorneys to return millions of dollars they have generated through “diversion” traffic tickets.  The law center says the state’s ethics code prohibits district attorneys from profiting off the threat of prosecution.  The complaint named four district attorneys including Calcasieu Parish district attorney John Derosier.

 

A CHEF FROM THE BLUE DOG CAFÉ WAS CROWNED THE LOUISIANA SEAFOOD KING LAST NIGHT.  RYAN TRAHAN WAS ONE OF A DOZEN CHEFS FROM ACROSS THE STATE TO COMPETE IN THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL LOUISIANA SEAFOOD COOKOFF.  IT TOOK PLACE AT THE CAJUNDOME CONVENTION CENTER IN LAFAYETTE AS THE KICK OFF EVENT FOR THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL EAT LAFAYETTE DINING CAMPAIGN.  TRAHAN WILL REPRESENT LOUISIANA IN THE GREAT AMERICAN SEAFOOD COOKOFF, WHICH TAKES PLACE AUGUST FOURTH IN NEW ORLEANS.

 

 

 

THERE IS AN EFFORT TO CREATE A LAKE CHARLES AFFILIATE OF THE FAMILY PROMISE PROGRAM, WHICH HELPS HOMELESS FAMILIES GET OUT OF THEIR SITUATION.  PASTOR VINCE ENDRIS OF FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH SAYS BEFORE IT CAN BEGIN, THEY NEED THIRTEEN HOST CHURCHES WHO WILL TAKE TURNS HOUSING AND HELPING A HOMELESS FAMILY FOR A WEEK AT A TIME.  HE SAYS SO FAR THEY HAVE NINE HOST CHURCHES AND FIVE CHURCHES WHO WILL OFFER SUPPORT.  THERE ARE ABOUT TWO THOUSAND SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN IN CALCASIEU PARISH WHO BELONG TO A FAMILY THAT IS HOMELESS.

 

AN INMATE WHO ESCAPED FROM THE ST. MARY PARISH JAIL ON FRIDAY HAS BEEN FOUND AND CAPTURED IN CROWLEY.  SHERIFF SCOTT ANSLUM SAYS 25-YEAR-OLD JEREMY PEREZ OF NEW IBERIA WILL BE TRANSPORTED TO THE ST. MARY PARISH LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER.  PEREZ’ ESCAPE WAS THE SECOND JAILBREAK IN TWO WEEK’S TIME, WHICH LED TO THE REASSIGNMENT OF THE WARDEN AND THE FIRING OF TWO DEPUTIES.  IN THE FIRST JAILBREAK, FOUR INMATES ESCAPED BUT WERE LATER CAPTURED.

 

The Louisiana House has gotten off to a slow start in the latest special session on taxes, with no votes on tax bills and a rehashed debate over budget issues from prior sessions.  The House Ways and Means Committee reviewed sales tax proposals Tuesday, an exercise Republican Rep. Kenny Havard called “a big waste of time” without votes. The House Appropriations Committee reviewed the budget, questioning if previously approved spending plans are the best use of available money.  Lawmakers passed a budget starting July 1 that needs $500 million to be fully financed.