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THE STATE SUPREME COURT GRANTED A STAY TODAY OF THE RECENT INDICTMENT OF LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL LIZ MURRILL. YESTERDAY AN ORLEANS PARISH GRAND JURY INDICTED MURRILL ON SIXTEEN COUNTS OF MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE AND PUBLIC INTIMIDATION. MURRILL THANKED THE COURT FOR ACTING SO SWIFTLY TO ISSUE THE STAY. GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY ALSO THANKED THE COURT FOR “HALTING THIS CIRCUS.”
EUNICE POLICE SAY THEY’VE IDENTIFIED THE MAN ACCUSED OF ROBBING A SONIC DRIVE-IN AT GUNPOINT AND SAY HE WAS THE SAME MAN WHO WALKED OUT OF THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH JAIL IN APRIL. LAYNE MILLER REPORTS.
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KADN TV IS REPORTING THAT THE DIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE HAS HIRED A PROMINENT BANKRUPTCY ATTORNEY FOR AT LEAST ONE OF ITS CLERGY SEX ABUSE LAWSUITS. SOME IN THE LEGAL COMMUNITY SUGGEST THIS INDICATES THE DIOCESE IS PREPARING TO FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY. ATTORNEY FRANCIS LOCOCO PREVIOUSLY REPRESENTED THE DIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN IN THEIR BANKRUPTCY CASE. HE ALSO WORKS WITH THE DIOCESE OF ALEXANDRIA, WHICH DECLARED BANKRUPTCY LAST YEAR.
A BODY WAS FOUND IN A DITCH YESTERDAY AFTERNOON IN LAKE CHARLES. CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES WERE CALLED OUT SHORTLY AFTER THREE TO THE AREA OF WEST GAUTHIER AND BIG LAKE ROADS. A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION FOUND NO OBVIOUS SIGNS OF FOUL PLAY. THE CALCASIEU PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE WILL DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF DEATH.
BOATING TRAFFIC IS EXPECTED TO SPIKE OVER THE FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND. LAYNE MILLER HAS MORE.
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TWO TEENAGERS WERE ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING ON JUNE TWENTY-NINTH AT MARIE STREET AND CORPORATION AREA IN CHURCH POINT. A RESIDENCE WAS HIT BY PROJECTILES BUT NO ONE WAS INJURED. POLICE SAY A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD WAS THE SHOOTER AND HE FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING ASSAULT BY DRIVE-BY SHOOTING AND ILLEGAL DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM. ALSO ARRESTED WAS EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ALASIAH (uh LEYE suh) BREAUX OF OPELOUSAS FOR ASSAULT BY DRIVE-BY SHOOTING AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE DELINQUENCY OF A JUVENILE.
LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARRESTED A MAN DRIVING A STOLEN VEHICLE. THEY SPOTTED THE VEHICLE IN THE TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED BLOCK OF VEROT SCHOOL ROAD WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE DEPUTIES CONDUCTED A TRAFFIC STOP AND ARRESTED EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD JERAMIE LASALLE OF LAFAYETTE. HE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH UNAUTHORIZED USE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE DELINQUENCY OF A JUVENILE.
CROWLEY POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A MAN IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING SUNDAY AFTERNOON THAT INJURED TWO PEOPLE. THE TWO WHO WERE SHOT WERE NOT THE INTENDED TARGETS. TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD DACOREY BROWN OF CROWLEY HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED BATTERY WITH A FIREARM AND ONE COUNT OF AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A FIREARM. HIS BOND IS SET AT ONE HUNDRED THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
