6-4-24
LOUISIANA STATE POLICE HAVE BEEN CALLED IN TO INVESTIGATE A DEPUTY-INVOLVED SHOOTING IN CROWLEY. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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THE LAFAYETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT HONORED FIREFIGHTER DARION BLAKE WHETSTONE WITH A FULL FIREFIGHTER’S FUNERAL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THE MARTIN AND CASTILLE FUNERAL HOME. THE TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD WHETSTONE PASSED AWAY MAY TWENTY-NINTH AFTER BATTLING CANCER THAT WAS DIAGNOSED LAST AUGUST. FIRE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN ALTON TRAHAN SAYS WHETSTONE CONTINUED TO WORK FOR AS LONG AS HE COULD UNTIL HE HAD TO SEEK TREATMENT, WHICH SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT HIM AS AN INDIVIDUAL. WHETSTONE WAS WITH THE DEPARTMENT FOR NINE YEARS AND ALSO SERVED IN THE ARMY DOING TOURS OF DUTY IN KUWAIT, IRAQ, SYRIA AND JORDAN.
Louisiana lawmakers adjourned the 2024 legislative session Monday, a three-month long gathering of the body that was marked by the passage of a slew of conservative policies. The regular session was the first under Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, marking a new era of conservative leadership in Louisiana. Policies passed this session included a package of anti-LGBTQ+ bills, migrant enforcement measures, a requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in public classrooms and a new law that reclassifies two abortion-inducing drugs as controlled dangerous substances.
Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval to a bill that would allow judges the option to order someone to undergo surgical castration when the person is convicted of a sex crime against a child younger than 13. Several states, including Louisiana, currently can order such criminals to receive chemical castration, which uses medications that block testosterone production in order to decrease sex drive. However, surgical castration is a more invasive procedure. The bill approved Monday now heads to the desk of Gov. Jeff Landry.
THE CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY AND CITY OF LAKE CHARLES SUMMER FEEDING PROGRAM BEGAN YESTERDAY. THEY ARE SERVING FOOD EVERY WEEKDAY, EXCEPT FOR HOLIDAYS, TO THOSE EIGHTEEN AND YOUNGER ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS. YESTERDAY THEY SERVED BREAKFAST TO SEVEN HUNDRED KIDS AND SEVENTEEN HUNDRED WERE FED AT LUNCH. NO REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THE MEALS WHICH ARE SERVED AT AREA SCHOOLS.
TWO PEOPLE IN OPELOUSAS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR THROWING PUPPIES INTO A DUMPSTER. SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS CAPTURED IMAGES OF THE INCIDENT AT A DUMPSTER OUTSIDE OF THE SEBASTIAN WEST END SEAFOOD MARKET ON WEST LANDRY STREET. IT HAPPENED SUNDAY NIGHT AT AROUND SIX-THIRTY. A NEIGHBOR RESCUED THE PUPPIES AND IS TAKING CARE OF THEM. THE TWO ARRESTED, TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD JASMINE MOUTON AND TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD KENDALL TYLER, BOTH FROM OPELOUSAS, FACE CHARGES OF AGGRAVATED ANIMAL CRUELTY.
A FORMER LAFAYETTE AND OPELOUSAS HOUSING AUTHORITY DIRECTOR, WHO SPENT TIME IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR BID RIGGING AND WIRE FRAUD, HAS RESIGNED AS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT. WALTER GUILLORY WAS HIRED AS AN ATHLETIC PROGRAM SUPERVISOR IN THE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT IN TWENTY-NINETEEN. THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT AT THAT TIME, GERALD BOUDREAUX, SAID GUILLORY WOULD NOT HANDLE MONEY AS PART OF HIS JOB. CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER RACHEL GODEAUX TELLS THE ADVOCATE GUILLORY SUBMITTED HIS LETTER OF RESIGNATION ON MAY TWENTY-EIGHTH AND WAS NOT FORCED TO RESIGN.
TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN AN EARLY MORNING MOBILE HOME FIRE IN NEW IBERIA. THE NEW IBERIA FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED TO THE FIRE SHORTLY BEFORE FIVE-THIRTY AND FOUND THE BODIES OF A MAN AND A WOMAN. THEY ARE BELIEVED TO BE THE MARRIED COUPLE WHO OWNED THE MOBILE HOME, BUT THEIR NAMES HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED. AN INVESTIGATION IS BEING CONDUCTED INTO THE MOBILE HOME FIRE, WHICH HAPPENED IN THE SIXTY-FOUR HUNDRED BLOCK OF FREETOWN ROAD.
