7-24-19
LAFAYETTE FIRE INVESTIGATORS SUSPECT A HOUSE FIRE WAS INTENTIONALLY SET. MEGAN KELLY REPORTS.
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CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARRESTED THE PARENTS AND GRANDMOTHER OF A TWO-MONTH-OLD BABY SUFFERING SEVERE NEGLECT. THE BABY HAD SORES, WAS MALNOURISHED AND A PARAMEDIC HAD TO REMOVE THE BABY’S DIAPER BECAUSE OF SEVERE DIAPER RASH. THE PARENTS, 37-YEAR-OLD CRYSTAL ROBERTS AND 34-YEAR-OLD HERBERT THIBODEAUX JUNIOR, AND THE GRANDMOTHER, 58-YEAR-OLD ANTHONETTE THIBODEAUX, ADMITTED THEY SMOKED SYNTHETIC MARIJUANA AROUND THE BABY, AND DEPUTIES FOUND DRUGS IN THE HOME. THE PARENTS HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE CRUELTY TO A JUVENILE, AND ALL THREE FACE MULTIPLE DRUG CHARGES.
THE ST. MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS ARRESTED THREE PEOPLE ON DRUGS AND WEAPONS CHARGES AFTER THE SEARCH OF A HOME IN THE CATAHOULA AREA. DEPUTIES WERE ACTING ON COMPLAINTS ABOUT POSSIBLE DRUG ACTIVITY AND, WHEN THEY ENTERED THE HOME, THEY FOUND SUSPECTED NARCOTICS AND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA IN PLAIN VIEW AS WELL AS A FIREARM. 37-YEAR-OLD JOHNATHAN CHAUTIN OF BREAUX BRIDGE FACES SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING POSSESSION WITH THE INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE MARIJUANA. 51-YEAR-OLD SHANE COURVILLE OF ST. MARTINVILLE AND 34-YEAR-OLD DANIELLE HEBERT OF BREAUX BRIDGE WERE ARRESTED ON MULTIPLE DRUG AND WEAPONS POSSESSION CHARGES.
A civil rights organization has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the maps used to elect Louisiana’s seven state Supreme Court justices as discriminatory against African American voters. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Baton Rouge, seeks a declaration that the districts violate the federal Voting Rights Act. It also seeks an order that the district boundaries be re-drawn. The Washington, D.C.-based Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP and two black voters.
A NEW ORLEANS MAN WAS ARRESTED IN SCOTT MONDAY FOR CASHING COUNTERFEIT CHECKS USING A FAKE I-D. 59-YEAR-OLD MANUEL BLUNT JUNIOR WAS IDENTIFIED BY AN EMPLOYEE AT A GROCERY STORE IN SCOTT. WHEN BROUGHT IN FOR QUESTIONING TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, BLUNT ADMITTED TO USING THE FAKE I-D AND CHECK. POLICE SAY HE USED THE FAKE I-D AND CHECKS AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS IN SCOTT BEFORE HE WAS CAUGHT.
AN IOWA MAN, WHO IS A MURDER SUSPECT, LEFT LAKE CHARLES BY PLANE SUNDAY TO ST. LOUIS, AND AUTHORITIES CONSIDER HIM A FLEEING SUSPECT. 40-YEAR-OLD NATHANIEL MITCHELL THE THIRD IS ACCUSED OF KILLING 29-YEAR-OLD ZACCHAEUS H. BURTON OF BATON ROUGE, THEN BURNING HIS BODY AND LEAVING IT ON THE SIDE OF D. WILLIAMS ROAD IN DEQUINCY, WHERE IT WAS DISCOVERED LAST WEDNESDAY. THE PREVIOUS DAY, BURTON HAD ARRIVED IN CALCASIEU PARISH FROM BATON ROUGE ON A BUS AND WAS STAYING WITH MITCHELL. DETECTIVES BELIEVE BURTON AND MITCHELL TRAVELED SEPERATELY TO DEQUINCY THE NEXT DAY, WHERE BURTON WAS MURDERED.
THE ACADIA PARISH POLICE JURY VOTED 4-TO-3 TO LEAVE THE ACADIANA PLANNING COMMISSION. THE COMMISSION HAS REPRESENTED SEVEN ACADIANA PARISHES IN PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WHICH INCLUDES ECONOMIC AND TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. POLICE JURY PRESIDENT DAVID SAVOY TELLS KATC THAT PLANNING COMMISSIONS SEEM TO FOCUS MORE ON POPULATION CENTERS RATHER THAN SMALLER COMMUNITIES. ACADIA PARISH WAS PAYING ELEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN ANNUAL DUES TO BE PART OF THE COMMISSION.
One of the Republican candidates in the Louisiana governor’s race has released his first TV ad, touting his support of President Donald Trump. Eddie Rispone’s 30-second spot began airing statewide Tuesday. The Baton Rouge businessman’s campaign says it’s spending $1 million to run the ad in every major Louisiana media market. The ad doesn’t mention Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards or Rispone’s other GOP competitor, U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham.
