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CREDIT CARD SKIMMERS WERE FOUND ON CASH REGISTERS AT SUPER ONE FOOD STORES IN CROWLEY AND OPELOUSAS. THE DEVICES WERE POTENTIALLY ON REGISTERS AT THE CROWLEY STORE FROM APRIL ELEVENTH TO MAY THIRD AND FROM APRIL THIRTIETH TO MAY THIRD AT THE OPELOUSAS STORE. BROOKSHIRE, THE COMPANY THAT OWNS SUPER ONE FOODS, LAUNCHED AN INVESTIGATION AFTER REMOVING THE SKIMMER DEVICES. BROOKSHIRE FOUND THAT THE DEVICES WERE CAPABLE OF STEALING INFORMATION FROM THE CARDS WHEN THEY WERE SWIPED, NOT TAPPED OR CARD READ, BUT THEY DON’T KNOW IF ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION WAS ACTUALLY COMPROMISED.
TWO PEOPLE SUSPECTED OF SETTING A VEHICLE ON FIRE AT THE EAGLE RUN APARTMENTS IN LAFAYETTE HAVE TURNED THEMSELVES IN. FORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD JUDD GUILBEAU AND THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD MARIAH JANIK HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH SIMPLE ARSON AND TWO COUNTS OF CRIMINAL DAMAGE. THE VEHICLE FIRE WAS SET JUST BEFORE ONE A-M ON JUNE NINETEENTH AT THE APARTMENT COMPLEX LOCATED ON SOUTH COLLEGE DRIVE. TWO OTHER VEHICLES PARKED NEARBY SUFFERED FIRE DAMAGE AS WELL.
A SHELTER IN PLACE ORDER WAS ISSUED FOR WESTLAKE FOR A FEW HOURS YESTEREDAY BECAUSE OF A FIRE AT A CHLORINE PLANT. EMERGENCY OFFICIALS SAY THE FIRE AT THE BIOLAB PLANT WAS IN A WAREHOUSE WITH CHLORINE PRODUCTS IN IT. A TEN MILE STRETCH OF I-TEN WAS ALSO CLOSED DUE TO THE FIRE. A SPOKESMAN FOR BIOLAB SAYS THERE WERE NO INJURIES AND HE THANKED FIRST RESPONDERS AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR THEIR COLLABERATION TO BRING THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from the adult entertainment industry seeking to upend a Texas law that requires their websites to verify the age of their users. The justices said Tuesday they’ll review an appellate ruling that allowed the age verification to go into effect. Arguments in the legal fight between an adult entertainment industry trade association and the Republican governor who signed the law will take place in the fall. Similar age verification laws have passed in other states, including Louisiana.
THE BODY FOUND EARLIER THIS WEEK ON SOUTH UNION STREET IN OPELOUSAS HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS JOHN BATISTE. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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SOME CITY AND STATE OFFICIALS ARE WORKING ON A PLAN TO GET GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY TO RECONSIDER FUNDING FOR CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA. LANDRY VETOED ONE MILLION DOLLARS THAT WAS SET TO GO TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES TO SERVE THE HOMELESS. HE CITED THE CHURCH’S STANCE ON IMMIGRANTS WHEN ISSUING THE VETO. STATE SENATOR GERALD BOUDREAUX AND LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCILMAN KENNETH BOUDREAUX PLAN TO MEET WITH MAYOR PRESIDENT MONIQUE BOULET TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS IN LAFAYETTE.
GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY IS BACKING SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JIMMY GENOVESE TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY. LANDRY SAYS HE’S MOTIVATED TO FIND A GOOD PRESIDENT FOR THE SCHOOL AND HE BELIEVES GENOVESE WOULD ACCOMPLISH THAT. HOWEVER, THE ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER SAYS LANDRY WOULD SEE ANOTHER BENEFIT IN OPENING A SPOT ON THE SUPREME COURT FOR A MORE CONSERVATIVE JUSTICE. GENOVESE HAS REGULARLY VOTED AGAINST TOUGH-ON-CRIME MATTERS, WHICH IS A KEY ISSUE FOR THE GOVERNOR.
LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARRESTED A RAYNE MAN MONDAY AFTERNOON WHO WAS WANTED BY CROWLEY POLICE. THE DEPUTIES WERE NOTIFIED BY CROWLEY POLICE THAT THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD VORICE OZONE WAS AT A HOME ON GOODIE ROAD IN MAURICE. THEY PICKED HIM UP AND TOOK HIM TO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER. HE HAS SINCE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL, WHERE HE WAS BOOKED ON CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND HOME INVASION.
