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7-29-21

A LAFAYETTE GRAND JURY RETURNED MURDER INDICTMENTS YESTERDAY IN THREE SEPARATE CASES.  THEY CHARGED NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD LUCAS WILLIAMS OF SCOTT WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER FOR THE SHOOTING DEATH OF HIS GIRLFRIEND, EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD JENNIFER HURST, ON MAY FIFTEENTH.  TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD NATALIE BROUSSARD FACES A SECOND DEGREE MURDER CHARGE FOR THE DEATH OF HER TWO-YEAR-OLD SON, RYATT HENSLEY, WHO WAS FOUND DEAD INSIDE A PARKED VEHICLE AT A RESIDENTIAL AREA OFF OF CAMERON STREET IN DUSON LAST SEPTEMBER.  ALSO, FORTY-YEAR-OLD CHANDLER ROBERT WAS CHARGED WITH THE SECOND DEGREE MURDER OF JAMES PATRICK BROUSSARD JUNIOR, WHO DIED AFTER BEING PUNCHED AND ROBBED OUTSIDE OF A BUSINESS ON KALISTE SALOOM LAST APRIL ELEVENTH.

 

A MAN FROM ATLANTA, GEORGIA HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING ON I-TEN IN SAINT MARTIN PARISH ON JULY SEVENTEENTH.  FIVE PEOPLE WERE IN THE VEHICLE THAT WAS SHOT AT MULTIPLE TIMES IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.  THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD MARKUS ONTERIOUS ANDREWS WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY BY THE SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE BECAUSE A WARRANT WAS ISSUED FOR HIS ARREST.  HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE SAINT MARTIN PARISH JAIL, WHERE HE WAS BOOKED ON FIVE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER.

 

A PEARLAND, TEXAS COUPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR POSSIBLE CONTRACTOR FRAUD IN CALCASIEU PARISH.  THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD WILLIAM D. DEREMER THE THIRD AND HIS COMPANY, SOUTHERN OUTFITTERS, WERE INITIALLY PAID TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A TREE REMOVAL AND OTHER HOME REPAIRS.  THE HOMEOWNER WAS LATER BILLED EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS MORE FOR REPAIRS THAT WERE NEVER COMPLETED, AND THE TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLAR CHECK HAD BEEN CASHED BY DEREMER’S GIRLFRIEND, THIRTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD JENNIFER GUERRA, WHO WORKED FOR THE COMPANY.  BOTH FACE CHARGES OF RESIDENTIAL CONTRACTOR FRAUD OF TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS OR MORE AND HAVING NO LICENSE TO BE A RESIDENTIAL CONTRACTOR.

 

THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH RELEASED THE LATEST CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS.  HERE’S CAROLINE MARCELLO WITH THE DETAILS.

 

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KAJN IMPACT NEWS       PAGE TWO

 

Louisiana saw a spike in the number of wasted coronavirus vaccine doses as interest in the shots plummeted across the state. More than 79,000 vaccine doses were trashed largely because health providers couldn’t find arms quickly enough. Wasted doses of the vaccines numbered fewer than 1,500 only four months ago, but data provided to The Associated Press by the Louisiana Department of Health showed the unused, discarded shots surged to more than 50 times that number by July 23. The Health Department says the state is now seeing a surge in immunization interest as the highly contagious delta variant drives record numbers of new infections.

 

ON AUGUST THIRD, THE LAFAYETTE PARISH COUNCIL WILL VOTE ON PURCHASING LAND NEXT TO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE ON WILLOW STREET FOR THE BUILDING OF A NEW JAIL.  PARISH COUNCILMAN A-B RUBIN SAYS THE NEED FOR A NEW JAIL IS URGENT BECAUSE ABOUT TWO MILLION DOLLARS HAS SPENT ON REPAIRS FOR THE DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE JAIL AND THAT JAIL HAS HAD FIVE ESCAPEES OVER THE LAST TWENTY YEARS.  HOWEVER, AT A TOWN HALL MEETING, DOZENS OF PEOPLE FROM NEIGHBORHOODS NEAR THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE PROTESTED PUTTING THE JAIL THERE, WITH CONCERNS FOR THEIR SAFETY.  RUBIN SAYS THEY BROUGHT UP GOOD POINTS AND MENTIONED ALTERNATIVE SITES WHICH HE WILL SHARE WITH THE COUNCIL.

 

THE OPELOUSAS CITY MARSHAL CONDUCTED A SUCCESSFUL WARRANT ROUNDUP YESTERDAY.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.

 

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RECENT CHANGES IN PRECINCTS AND POLLING LOCATIONS WILL AFFECT ABOUT TWELVE THOUSAND RESIDENTS IN ACADIA PARISH.  TEN PRECINCTS HAVE BEEN MERGED AS A COST SAVING MEASURE.  THE ACADIA PARISH REGISTRAR OF VOTER’S OFFICE WILL BE SENDING OUT NEW VOTER REGISTRATION CARDS TO THOSE AFFECTED.  OFFICIALS ASK THOSE WHO RECEIVE THE CARDS TO REVIEW THEM CAREFULLY TO SEE WHERE THEY WILL BE VOTING IN THE NEXT ELECTION.