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TWO PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND SIX OTHERS ARE INJURED AFTER A CRASH INVOLVING TWO BOATS ON THE TICKFAW RIVER. SYLVIA MASTERS REPORTS.
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JUAN CAMACHO, 45, OF TEXAS HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH FIRST OFFENSE DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED AFTER HE FATALLY HIT 31 YEAR OLD DANIEL COURVILLE OF LAKECHARLES, WHO WAS TRYING TO CROSS 1-10 WEST AROUND 9PM SATURDAY, AFTER HIS VEHICLE HAD GONE INTO THE MEDIAN. CAMACHO WAS DRIVING HIS TRUCK WESTBOUND ON 1-10. COURVILLE DIED AT THE SCENE OF THE CRASH ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE. TROOPERS DETERMINED THAT CAMACHO WAS IMPAIRED AND ARRESTED HIM. A TOXICOLOGY SAMPLE WAS COLLECTED FROM BOTH CAMACHO AND COURVILLE.
A CRASH ON HIGHWAY 90 NEAR LORI LANE THURSDAY NIGHT TOOK THE LIFE OF 77 YEAR-OLD ANTHONY PECK OF FRANKLIN AND 58 YEAR-OLD BETTY HESTER OF BENTON, KENTUCKY. STATE POLICE REPORTED THAT 43 YEAR-OLD MARCELA YEPES-RESTREPO OF TEXAS WAS TRYING TO MAKE A U TURN FROM THE CENTER TURN LANE WHILE DRIVING A 18-WHEELER EAST ON HWY 90. PECK WAS DRIVING WEST IN THE LEFT LANE IN A KIA SORENTO WHEN, FOR UNKNOWN REASONS, PECK’S VEHICLE STRUCK THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE 18-WHEELER AS IT WAS MAKING THE U TURN. BOTH PECK AND HIS FRON SEAT PASSENGER, HESTER, WERE PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE AND TWO JUVENILE PASSENGERS IN THE BACK SEAT WERE HOSPITALIZED WITH MODERATE TO SEVERE INJURIES. YEPES-RESTREPO WAS UNINJURED IN THE ACCIDENT AND HE PROVIDED A VOLUNTARY BREATH SAMPLE, WHICH SHOWED NO ALCOHOL PRESENT. A TOXICOLOGY SAMPLE WAS COLLECTED FROM PECK.
SPECUALATION CONTINUES TO SWIRL AROUND THE SUDDEN RESIGNATION OF DERIDDER MAYOR MISTY CLANTON. LAST WEEK MAYOR CLANTON NAMED DERIDDER FIRE CHIEF KEN HARLOW AS MAYOR PRO TEM, BECAUSE CLANTON WAS GOING TO BE AWAY FROM THE OFFICE MORE THE TWO WEEKS. SATURDAY KPLC-TV BROKE THE NEWS THAT MAYOR CLANTON RESIGNED. THE DERIDDER CITY COUNCIL HAS CALLED FOR A MEETING TOMORROW TO CONSIDER AN INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS OF MISCONDUCT BY MAYOR CLANTON.
AFTER A GIRL UNDER THE AGE OF THE 13, GAVE BIRTH SATURDAY AT A LAKE CHARLES HOSPITAL, THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE WAS NOTIFIED. SHERIFF’S DETECTIVES MET WITH THE GIRL AND SHE TOLD THEM THAT JOSE L. MONTOYA HAD SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH HER NUMEROUS TIMES OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS. WHEN DETECTIVES TALKED WITH MONTOYA, HE ADMITTED TO THE ALLEGATIONS AND SAID THE NEWBORN BABY IS LIKELY HIS CHILD. MONTOYA WAS ARRESTED ON TWO COUNTS OF FIRST DEGREE RAPE AND BOOKED INTO THE CALCASIEU CORRECTIONAL CENTER.
LOCAL RESTAURANTS ARE HOSTING FUNDRAISERS THIS WEEK TO BENEFIT THE FAMILY OF SLAIN OFFICER SR. CPL. SEGUS JOLIVETTE. WEDNESDAY BOTH LOCATIONS OF DEANO’S PIZZA AND BOTH LOCATIONS OF PREJEAN’S WILL DONATE 15% OF ALL SALES DIRECTLY TO THE JOLIVETTE FAMILY.
