7-29-19
THE SCOTT FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED TO A HOUSE FIRE JUST BEFORE 9 PM SUNDAY NIGHT. CAROLINE MARCELLO REPORTS.
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A FORMER WESTLAKE ASSISTANT GIRLS BASKETBALL COACH WAS ARRESTED ON FRIDAY FOLLOWING AN INDICTMENT. 38-YEAR-OLD EDWARD GARRIET THE THIRD FACES ONE COUNT OF CARNAL KNOWLEDGE OF A JUVENILE AND SEVEN COUNTS OF INDECENT BEHAVIOR WITH A JUVENILE. GARRETT WAS A FORMER MCNEESE STATE BASKETBALL PLAYER AND ASSISTANT COACH WITH THE TEAM. HE WAS SLATED TO TAKE OVER AS HEAD GIRLS BASKETBALL COACH AT LAKE CHARLES COLLEGE PREP BUT SCHOOL OFFICIALS CHANGED THEIR MIND ONCE THEY LEARNED ABOUT AN INVESTIGATION INTO GARRIET.
AN ABBEVILLE MAN WAS KILLED IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION EARLY SUNDAY MORNING ON L-A 14. STATE POLICE SAY 54-YEAR-OLD TORLIN WILLIAMS WAS TRAVELING WEST AT AROUND TWO A-M, WHEN, FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON, HE CROSSED THE CENTER LINE AND HIT AN ONCOMING CAR HEAD-ON. THE COLLISION CAUSED WILLIAM’S CAR TO SPLIT IN HALF AND HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE DRIVER AND A PASSENGER IN THE OTHER VEHICLE, WHO WERE WEARING SEAT BELTS, SUFFERED NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES.
THE RATE OF TODDLERS WHO DROWN IN LOUISIANA IS MORE THAN DOUBLE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE. BETWEEN 2014 AND 2017, THERE WERE AN AVERAGE OF TWO-POINT-5 YOUNG CHILDREN PER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND WHO DROWNED, BUT IN LOUISIANA THAT NUMBER GOES UP TO 5-POINT-8. AT LEAST 53 PERCENT OF THOSE DEATHS WERE DROWNINGS IN SWIMMING POOLS. THE OVERALL DROWNING RATE FOR TODDLERS HAS GONE DOWN OVER THE YEARS, BUT THE RATE IS THE SAME IN LOUISIANA AS FORTY YEARS AGO, ACCORDING TO THE FEDERAL CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION.
A Louisiana district judge has found a public defender in contempt of court after he filmed a bailiff duct-taping a defendant’s mouth during a sentencing hearing this month. The Acadiana Advocate reports state District Judge Marilyn Castle barred attorney Michael Gregory from bringing a cellphone into the 15th Judicial District court building or from using anyone else’s cellphone in the court house for six months. She also ordered him to pay a $100 fine. Gregory says he plans to appeal Friday’s ruling.
Authorities are accusing a Texas woman of taking part in an undercooked scheme in which she claimed she was served raw hamburger meat at two different locations of a fast food chain. Cassandra Brooks, a former lieutenant with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, has been charged with insurance fraud and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Harris County, District Attorney Kim Ogg says Brooks was awarded more than $10,000 as part of an insurance settlement after she claimed that she had been served raw beef at a Sonic restaurant in Lake Charles in July of 2018. Prosecutors say Brooks made a similar claim at a Sonic in suburban Houston a month later.
A Louisiana man is in custody, accused of shooting his brother to death. Church Point police responded to a call at 4:11 a.m. Friday of an ambulance needed at an area home. Police Chief Dale Thibodeaux says upon arrival, officers found 68-year-old Joseph Moore with a single gunshot wound to the chest. Paramedics tried to revive Moore, who was wheelchair-bound, but were unsuccessful. Thibodeaux says the victim’s brother, 65-year-old Elvin Moore, is the suspected shooter.
Louisiana’s health department will soon start enforcing a new law requiring restaurants to tell customers if they sell imported shrimp or crawfish. The agency says it will check for compliance with the notification requirement beginning Sept. 1. Restaurants have to post information about imported crawfish or shrimp on menus. If they don’t use menus, they have to post signs at their main entrances.
