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TWENTY ONE YEAR OLD BENJAMIN GUILLORY, IS IN CUSTODY AFTER ROBBING THE ST. LANDRY BANK IN EUNICE YESTERDAY MORNING. ACCORDING TO EUNICE CHIEF OF POLICE RANDY FONTENOT, GUILLORY WENT INTO THE BANK AND HELD A TELLER AT GUNPOINT AND DEMANDED AN UNDISCLOSED AMOUNT OF CASH. AS GUILLORY WAS LEAVING THE BANK HE FIRED A SHOT INTO THE BANK’S CEILING. WITNESSES SHOWED POLICE THE DIRECTION THAT GUILLORY RAN AND THEY CAUGHT HIM TWO BLOCKS FROM THE BANK. GUILLORY THREW THE GUN BEHIND AGUILLARD’S CLEANERS, WHICH WAS NEXT TO THE BANK. CHIEF FONTENOT SAID ALL THE MONEY WAS RECOVERED AND IT APPEARS GUILLORY ACTED ALONE.
ROBERT LEE SARGENT, 56 OF LAKE CHARLES, HAS BEEN ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED RAPE AND FIVE COUNTS OF SEXUAL BATTERY, ALONG WITH OTHER CHARGES. SARGENT IS ACCUSED OF ASSAULTING A YOUNG GIRL 26 YEARS AGO, FROM THE TIME SHE WAS TWO UNTIL SHE WAS ELEVEN. SARGENT IS ALSO ACCUSED OF INAPPROPATE BEHAVIOR WITH ANOTHER GIRL, FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS, STARTING WHEN THE GIRL WAS ONLY SIX YEARS OLD. SARGENT’S BOND WAS SET AT $450,000.
AN 18 YEAR OLD WOMAN IS DEAD AND TWO MEN ARE INJURED AFTER A SINGLE CAR CRASH IN VERMILLION PARISH. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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LAFAYATTE HIGH SCHOOL HAS A NEW PRINCIPAL. DR. DONALD THOMTON JR. WAS ANNOUNCED AS THE NEW PRINCIPAL, REPLACING DR. PATRICK LEONARD, BY THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM’S DONALD AGUILLARD. DR. THOMTON HAS SERVED AS A SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER AT COMEAUX HIGH AND A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER AT N.P. MOSS PREP. HE SERVED AS A PROJECT DIRECTOR/CURRICULUM. COACH OF THE TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY GRANT, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT LAFAYETTE HIGH, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT PAUL BREAUX MIDDLE, AND MOST RECENTLY, THE PRINCIPAL AT LAFAYETTE MIDDLE. DR. THOMTOM ALSO HAS SERVED ON THE GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATIONS REVISION COMMITTEE FOR THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
(AP) The Interstate-10 rest area in the Vinton/Toomey area temporarily closes beginning Monday for renovation. The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development says a $16 million renovation project will involve demolition of the current welcome center, which will be replaced with a new 16,000-square-foot facility. The project includes improvements to the parking areas; addition of a bus drop-off area and pavilion; addition of concrete waterfront boardwalk and walkways; installation of a new sewage treatment plant and sanitary sewer system and closed-circuit television security and electrical systems and enhanced lighting. In addition, the new welcome center will be designed to become “dark sky” compliant, which will aid in reducing light pollution. The project is estimated to occur over the next 18 months. Access to Lake Bienvenue will be prohibited during that time.
