KAJN Jesus FM 102.9


7-28-17

A 16 YEAR OLD MALE WAS ARRESTED LAST NIGHT FOR FIRING SHOTS AT A PARKED VEHICLE AND HOME IN SUNSET. CITY POLICE AND ST. LANDRY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARRIVED AT THE 300 BLOCK OF RICHARD STREET TO FIND THE JUVENILE INSIDE HIS HOUSE AND NONRESPONSIVE TO POLICE. SHERIFF BOBBY GUIDROZ DECIDED TO BRING IN SWAT AND THEY WERE ABLE TO BRING THE JUVENILE OUT WITHOUT ANY SHOTS OR INJURY TO ANYONE. ACCORDING TO GUIDROZ, THE PARENTS WEREN’T HOME AT THE TIME OF THE SHOOTING AND THEY WERE UNAWARE THAT THEIR SON HAD A GUN. IT’S ALSO BELIEVED THE GUN CAME OFF THE STREETS.

 

ROBBIE FONTENOT, 52 OF EVANGELINE AND PASSENGER TOMMIER HARRIS JR. 34 OF HOUSTON, TEXAS DIED YESTERDAY MORNING IN A SINGLE CAR ACCIDENT NEAR LAKE CHARLES. ACCORDING TO LOUISIANA STATE POLICE, THE CRASH HAPPENEND JUST BEFORE ONE YESTERDAY MORNING ON HWY 3020 NEAR CATALINA STREET. FONTENOT WAS DRIVING A 2015 NISSAN ALTIMA EAST WHEN FOR UNKNOWN REASONS HE RAN OFF THE ROAD, HIT A CULVERT, CAUSING THE CAR TO GO AIRBORNE AND THEN HITTING A SECOND CULVERT LANDING THE CAR IN THE ROADWAY. NEITHER FONTENOT OR HARRIS WERE WEARING THEIR SEAT BELTS AND THEY BOTH WERE PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. ROUTINE TOXICOLOGY TESTS ARE PENDING, AS THE INVESTIGATIION CONTINUES.

 

AUTHORITIES DID CONFIRM A MINOR GAS LEAK YESTERDAY, SAYING IT POSED NO THREAT TO THE PUBLIC. DICK GREMILLION WITH THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS CONFIRMED THE LEAK AND INFORMATION OF RELEASING PRESSURE AT THE INTERSECTION OF HWY 397 AND FARM ROAD AND AT THE SHUTOFF VALVE AT THE INTERSECTION OF RIVER ROAD AND DENNISON ROAD IN LEBLEU SETTLEMENT.

 

MERMENTAU POLICE CHIEF AMOS J. CRADER SR. WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY BY LOUISIANA STATE POLICE ON CHARGES OF THEFT AND MALFEASANCE. LAST MONTH, THE ACADIA PARISH DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE ASKED THE STATE POLICE TO INVESTIGATE A COMPLAINT THEIR OFFICE HAD RECEIVED ALLEGING THEFT OF FUNDS BY CRADER. IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT CRADER MADE THREE UNAUTHORIZED WITHDRAWALS FROM THE MERMENTAU POLICE OFFICERS ASSSOCIATION BANK ACCOUNT.

 

LAKE CHARLES MAYOR NICK HUNTER CONTINUED HIS TOUR OF DISTRICT MEETINGS LAST NIGHT BY MEETING WITH DISTRICT B AT THE BOSTON ACADEMY OF LEARNING. IT WAS THE SECOND OF SEVEN MEETINGS WITH DISTRICTS.

 

NEW IBERIA HAS SEVERAL RAILROAD CROSSING ISSUES INCLUDING NO GATES, RED FLASHINGS LIGHTS THAT DON’T WORK, OR NO CROSS BUCKS AND BELLS. THE STATE ALLOTED $178,000 TO FIX THESE PROBLEMS, BUT THE FUNDS NEVER GOT TO THE CITY. CITY COUNCILMAN DAVID BROUSSARD BELIEVES THE STATE TRIED TO USE THE MONEY ELSEWHERE. IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS BROUSSARD VISITED THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT, AS WELL AS LAWMAKERS IN BATON ROUGE, TO GET THE MONEY PROMISED TO THE CITY TO FIX THE RAILROAD CROSSING PROBLEMS. BROUSSARD SAYS THE CITY HAS NOW BEEN GIVEN THE MONEY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE REPAIRS.

 

(AP) Louisiana appears to have dug its way out of recession. The state has reached a three-year low in its unemployment rate and is finally showing job gains after being hammered by the downslide in the oil and gas industry. Greg Albrecht, the Legislature’s chief economist, says Louisiana is starting to be in a recovery. But the upswing remains slow. Louisiana continues to have the third-highest jobless rate among states, a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.5 percent for June. And Albrecht warns the job growth is barely reaching positive territory, still “bouncing around” zero. Still, the Governor cheered the latest unemployment report, saying the jobless rate has dropped from 6.2 percent since he took office last year and the current 5.5 percent figure is the lowest since February 2014.