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YESTERDAY, KAJN REPORTED A HIT AND RUN NEAR RAYNE SUNDAY NIGHT, AND WE NOW HAVE MORE DETAILS. SHERIFF K.P. GIBSON ANNOUNCED THAT IVY J. ROGER, 42 OF RAYNE WAS ARRESTED FOR HITTING A BICYCLIST, RICKY JOYNER, 61 OF RAYNE, AND FLEEING THE SCENE. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 9PM SUNDAY NIGHT ON QUARTER POLE ROAD NEAR HWY 98, EAST OF RAYNE. JOYNER WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. APPARENTLY, ROGER LEFT HIS VEHICLE AND FLED ON FOOT JUST DOWN THE ROAD FROM THE ACCIDENT WHICH LED POLICE TO ROGER. BECAUSE ROGER WAS NON-COOPERATIVE AND HAD BEEN CHARGED WITH FIVE PREVIOUS DWI’s, POLICE WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN A SEARCH WARRANT TO GET BLOOD WORK ON ROGER. ROGER WAS CHARGED WITH HIT AND RUN, OPERATING A VEHICLE UNDER SUSPENSION, AND VEHICULAR HOMICIDE. DWI CHARGES ARE PENDING ON RESULTS OF THE BLOOD WORK FROM THE CRIME LAB.
CALCASIEU SHERIFF TONY MANCUSO ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT A DNA MATCH HAS ALLOWED THEM TO ARREST BLAKE A. RUSSELL FOR THE MURDER OF SIERRA BOUZIGARD IN 2009. THE CASE WENT COLD, BUT IN SEPTEMBER OF 2015 POLICE RELEASED A SKETCH OF A SUSPECT. THE SKETCH AND CHARACHTERICTIC PROFILE WERE BUILT BY PRABON NANOLABS USING DNA FROM THE CRIME. THE SKETCH OF A WHITE MALE COMPLETELY CHANGED THE DIRECTION OF THE CASE, BECAUSE BOUZIGARD’S KILLER HAD BEEN BELIEVED TO BE A HISPANIC MAN, BECAUSE SHE HAD BEEN WITH SEVERAL MALE HISPANICS THE NIGHT SHE DIED. A TIP CAME IN ABOUT A MONTH AGO LINKED TO THE SKETCH, WHICH LED DETECTIVES TO START SURVEILLING RUSSELL AND EVENTUALLY SECURING A DNA SAMPLE FROM AN ITEM RUSSELL HAD DISCARDED. BOUZIGARD’S BODY WAS FOUND BY A BICYCLIST JUST OFF JOHN KOONCE ROAD IN MOSS BLUFF NOVEMBER 23, 2009. RUSSELL IS CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER AND JUDGE CLAYTON DAVIS SET BOND AT TWO MILLION DOLLARS.
BREAUX BRIDGE POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR JABARI LEBLANC, WHO’S WANTED ON A CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED SECOND DEGREE MURDER RELATED TO THE SHOOTING ON JULY 15TH AT THE 400 BLOCK OF STERLING STREET. LEBLANC IS CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS AND BREAUX BRIDGE POLICE SHOULD BE CONTACTED WITH ANY INFORMATION ON LEBLANC AT 332-2186.
NEW DRAINAGE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH WON’T COST MORE, JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARRESTED STEVEN BREAUX OVER THE WEEKEND, WHO HAD BEEN WANTED ON SEVERAL WARRANTS ON CHARGES OF RESISTING AN OFFICER BY FLIGHT, CARRYING OF A FIREARM BY A CONVICTED FELON, AND POSSESSION OF A FIREARM WITH OBLITERATED NUMBERS. SATURDAY, POLICE FOUND BREAUX AT HIS HOUSE ABOUT EIGHT MILES NORTH OF JENNINGS, BUT HE RAN INTO A WOODED AREA, WHERE HE WAS LATER FOUND.
(AP) A new Louisiana law that provides a medical-furlough program for inmates could save the state millions in annual medical costs — if a proposed overhaul of the national health care system doesn’t end Medicaid expansion in the state. The legislation allows for “limited mobility” inmates to be furloughed temporarily to hospitals or nursing homes, making them eligible for the federal-state program. Under the law, the federal government would pay at least 90 percent of the medical costs for eligible offenders. Corrections Medical Director Dr. Raman Singh says the program could be weakened if Medicaid goes through a “drastic change.” Corrections officials don’t yet have an estimate for how much Louisiana would save under the program annually. In fiscal 2016, health issues involving inmates cost Louisiana more than $75 million.
