6-30-21
A MAN, WHO STOLE A CAR WITH AN EIGHT MONTH OLD GIRL INSIDE, LED POLICE ON A CHASE ON I-FORTY-NINE IN LAFAYETTE AND SAINT LANDRY PARISHES. IT WAS STOLEN FROM A PARKING LOT IN THE TWO THOUSAND BLOCK OF EVANGELINE THRUWAY AND THE SUSPECT DROVE ALMOST ALL THE WAY THROUGH SAINT LANDRY PARISH BEFORE THE ENGINE OVERHEATED. THE SUSPECT WAS ARRESTED AND THE CHILD WAS BROUGHT BACK TO THE PARKING LOT IN LAFAYETTE WHERE SHE WAS REUNITED WITH HER FAMILY. THE SUSPECT, ERIC LASALLE, WAS BOOKED INTO THE EVANGELINE PARISH JAIL.
SAINT MARTINVILLE POLICE ARE EXPANDING THEIR SEARCH FOR A LOCAL MAN LAST SEEN AT HIS HOME. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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THREE MEN WERE ARRESTED IN JENNINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE THEFT OF A DANIEL DEFENSE A-R-TEN RIFLE. THE VICTIM CALLED POLICE ABOUT THE THEFT AND TOLD THEM HE SUSPECTED TWO MEN WHO WERE DOING PLUMBING WORK AT HIS HOUSE. OFFICERS LOCATED THE MEN, TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD L-J DIETZ AND THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD CORY DUPONT, AND LEARNED THEY HAD SOLD THE FIREARM TO ANOTHER MAN. THAT MAN, TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DOMINICK SITTIG, LATER CAME TO THE JENNINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH THE WEAPON.
THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAYS AN ESTIMATED TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF ALL COVID-NINETEEN CASES ARE NOW THE DELTA VARIANT. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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A BROUSSARD MAN LED SEVERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ON A SEVENTY-SIX MILE CHASE IN A STOLEN VEHICLE THAT LASTED AN HOUR AND TWENTY MINUTES. THE PURSUIT, WHICH HAPPENED MONDAY, WENT FROM DUSON TO RAYNE, CROWLEY, JENNINGS AND GUEYDAN. THE SUSPECT WAS STOPPED WHEN HE RAN OVER A SPIKE STRIP LAID BY THE VERMILLION PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE ON L-A NINETY-ONE SOUTH OF GUEYDAN, AND THE VEHICLE ENDED UP IN A CRAWFISH FIELD. THE DRIVER, EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD TERRANCE CHARLES, WAS ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPERTY AND AGGRAVATED FLIGHT FROM AN OFFICER.
A NEW FACILITY AT THE PORT OF IBERIA FOR DEEPWATER DRILLING CONTRACTER SEADRILL HAS OPENED. THE COMPANY IS MOVING FROM ITS FOURTEEN THOUSAND SQUARE FOOT FACILITY IN HOUMA TO A TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND SQUARE FOOT FACILITY THAT THE PORT OF IBERIA MADE FOR SEADRILL. THE EXTRA SPACE WILL ALLOW SEADRILL TO BRING IN EQUIPMENT FROM FOREIGN SHIPS FOR REPAIR OR MAINTENANCE AND STORAGE. GLOBAL WAREHOUSE MANAGER LYNN USIE TELLS KATC THEY ARE ALREADY HEARING FROM SUPPLIERS THAT WANT TO JOIN THE SPACE AS WELL.
THE ANNUAL FIELD DAY AT THE L-S-U AGCENTER H. ROUSE CAFFEY RICE RESEARCH STATION IN CROWLEY WILL BE HELD IN PERSON AGAIN AFTER IT WAS HELD VIRTUALLY LAST YEAR BECAUSE OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC. FIELD TOURS WILL BE HELD BETWEEN SEVEN-FIFTEEN AND NINE A-M FOLLOWED BY A POSTER SESSION AND TRADE SHOW. AT TEN-THIRTY, THERE WILL BE AN UPDATE FROM RICE INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. SPEAKERS INCLUDE AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER DOCTOR MIKE STRAIN AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE LOUISIANA RICE RESEARCH BOARD RICHARD FONTENOT.
