KAJN Jesus FM 102.9


7-24-15

THREE PEOPLE ARE DEAD AFTER A SHOOTING AT THE GRAND 16 THEATRE IN LAFAYETTE.  JULIE DARCE REPORTS.

 

VOICER D :49

 

LAKE CHARLES POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A STRING OF VEHICLE BREAK-INS ALONG MEADOW DRIVE LAST WEEK.  AUTHORITIES BELIEVE IT WAS TEENAGERS WHO COMMITTED THE CRIME BECAUSE NOTHING WAS TAKEN.  POLICE SPOKESMAN MARK KRAUS SAYS IT WAS LIKELY KIDS WALKING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHO BROKE INTO THE CARS TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANYTHING EASY TO STEAL.  MOST OF THE CARS BROKEN INTO WERE UNLOCKED.

 

THE LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE HAS ISSUED AN OPINION THAT THE JEANERETTE CITY MARSHAL COULD OVERSEE THE TOWN’S POLICE DEPARTMENT.  IN A LETTER RELEASED WEDNESDAY, THEY SAID THEY BELIEVE THE CITY MARSHAL CAN PROVIDE MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE OVERSIGHT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AS LONG HE IS COMPENSATED.  THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN LAST MONTH PROPOSED CITY MARSHAL FERNEST MARTIN WATCH OVER THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AFTER POLICE CHIEF MARVIN GROGAN RESIGNED.  GROGAN HAD BEEN ARRESTED IN MAY FOR NOT REPORTING ILLEGAL ACTIVITY AT LIPSTICK GENTLEMEN’S CLUB IN LAFAYETTE WHILE HE WORKED SECURITY THERE.

 

Louisiana’s lieutenant governor says the state tourism office is cutting in half the money it committed to pay the 2015 Miss USA pageant because the pageant was not carried on NBC or Univision as had been planned.  Jay Dardenne said the pageant, held in Baton Rouge, was a success, but the state had committed $50,000 to the pageant organization based on expected television coverage. Dardenne said the state, though grateful the Reelz satellite and cable channel aired the pageant, decided a $25,000 payment is a more appropriate taxpayer expenditure.  NBC and Univision dropped plans to air the contest after pageant co-owner Donald Trump’s remarks about immigrants as he launched his presidential campaign.

 

A man who fatally shot a teenager in 2013 has been sentenced to 13 months in prison — a sentence that drew criticism from the dead teen’s parents.  Twenty-one-year-old Seth Fontenot (FAHN’-teh-noh) of  Lafayette had told police that he fired a gun at a truck occupied by three teens because he suspected they had tried to break into his truck. He was convicted of manslaughter in the death of 15-year-old Austin Rivault (RIH’-voh).  Judge Edward Rubin originally sentenced Fontenot to three years, but suspended all but 13 months of that. Prosecutors appealed, saying a sentence for a violent crime cannot be suspended.  On Thursday, Rubin formally sentenced Fontenot to 13 months.

 

A 26-YEAR-OLD LAKE CHARLES WOMAN PLEADED GUILTY TO NEGLIGENT HOMOCIDE FOR THE DEATH OF AN INFANT.  BRITTNEY WOODCOCK WAS THE PRIMARY CARETAKER FOR SIX MONTH OLD KADEN JAMES REED ON APRIL FIRST OF LAST YEAR, WHEN HE ROLLED OFF AN ADULT MATTRESS AND SUFFOCATED BETWEEN IT AND A WALL.  HOLLY CARTER WITH THE CALCASIEU PARISH DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE SAYS WOODCOCK AND HER HUSBAND, TYSON, WERE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES AT THE TIME.  TYSON WOODCOCK PLED GUILTY LAST MONTH TO NEGLIGENT HOMOCIDE AND WAS SENTENCED TO ONE-AND-A-HALF YEARS IN PRISON.  BRITTNEY WILL BE SENTENCED IN OCTOBER.

 

LOUISIANA STATE POLICE ARRESTED THREE JOCKEYS FOR ALLEGEDLY FIXING A RACE AT EVANGELINE DOWNS RACE TRACK IN OPELOUSAS IN JUNE.  STATE POLICE SPOKESMAN BROOKS DAVID SAYS INVESTIGATORS DETERMINED THE JOCKEYS WILLFULLY HELD BACK A HORSE FAVORED TO WIN A RACE ON JUNE 19TH AND USED A THIRD PARTY TO PLACE BETS IN AN ATTEMPT TO MAXIMIZE WINNINGS.  ARRESTED WERE 46-YEAR-OLD JOE PATIN JUNIOR, HIS BROTHER, 51-YEAR-OLD BILLY PATIN, AND 24-YEAR-OLD LESEAN CONYERS.  THE PATIN BROTHERS WERE ALSO ACCUSED OF USING AN ILLEGAL ELECTRICAL SHOCKING DEVICE ON HORSES IN RACES THAT TOOK PLACE ON JULY FOURTH.

 

Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne (DAHR’-den), a Republican running for governor, wants taxpayers to stop footing the bill for costs associated with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s presidential campaign travel.  Dardenne released a letter Thursday calling on Jindal to use campaign cash to reimburse Louisiana State Police for travel costs tied to the governor’s security detail when he’s campaigning out of state.  The lieutenant governor says Jindal has been away from Louisiana 75 days so far this year.  On Thursday, Jindal spokesman Mike Reed said “the safety of the governor and his family” shouldn’t be used as a political issue, offering no indication Jindal intended any reimbursement.