7-6-18
LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF A MAN AT THE HOLY FAMILY APARTMENTS ON LOUISIANA AVENUE. THE BODY OF THE MAN WAS DISCOVERED INSIDE AN APARTMENT SHORTLY AFTER SIX LAST NIGHT. POLICE SAY THEY HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE THE MAN’S DEATH IS A HOMOCIDE. A FAMILY MEMBER TELLS KATC TV THAT THE MOTHER OF THE MAN DISCOVERED THE BODY AND THE MAN DID NOT LIVE THERE ALONE.
AN ALLEN PARISH WOMAN SAYS SHE PLANS ON SEEKING LEGAL COUNSEL AFTER A SHERIFF’S DEPUTY SHOT AND KILLED HER DOG LAST SATURDAY. DONNA COURVILLE TELLS KPLC TV THAT THE DEPUTY SHOT HER DOG FOUR TIMES AND THEN ABANDONED THE BODY, WHICH SHE DISCOVERED. COURVILLE SAYS SHE HOPES OFFICERS CAN GET TRAINING ON HOW TO HANDLE AGGRESSIVE DOGS. SHERIFF DOUG HEBERT IS STANDING BY HIS DEPUTY, WHO, HE SAYS, WAS DEFENDING HIMSELF AGAINST A CHARGING DOG, AND WAS CALLED AWAY IMMEDIATELY TO ANOTHER ASSIGNMENT, SO THAT HE COULDN’T PROPERLY DISPOSE OF THE BODY.
THE VERMILLION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD WILL MEET TODAY TO DISCUSS A CIVIL LAWSUIT BROUGHT AGAINST BOARD MEMBERS BY STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF LANDRY. JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.
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A TRUCK DRIVER WAS INJURED YESTERDAY WHEN SOME PIPES HE WAS TRANSPORTING CRASHED INTO THE CAB. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED ON HIGHWAY 90 AT THE INTERSECTION OF NORTH MORGAN AVENUE IN BROUSSARD. POLICE SAY STEVE ISBEL HIT THE BRAKES AND SOME DRILL PIPES SHIFTED LOOSE AND CAME FORWARD INTO HIS CAB. HE WAS PINNED BENEATH THE PIPES AND SUFFERED MODERATE INJURIES. HE WAS CITED FOR CARELESS OPERATION.
THE LAKE CHARLES CITY COUNCIL LAST NIGHT MADE SOME CHANGES TO THE GUIDELINES FOR FUTURE BIG EVENTS IN THE CITY. ANY PARADE LONGER THAN TWO-AND-A-HALF MILES AND THAT COSTS THE CITY MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS MUST BE APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL, APPLICATION FEES WILL INCREASE BY ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, AND NO MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED FOUR WHEELERS CAN BE AT AN EVENT. SERGEANT FRANKLIN FONDEL OF THE LAKE CHARLES POLICE SAYS THEY ARE TRYING TO BE PROACTIVE ON SAFETY MECHANISMS AND THEY JUST WANT PEOPLE TO COME OUT TO THE EVENTS WITHOUT HAVING ANY ACCIDENTS. ONE PERSON WHO WAS OPPOSED, ALFRED CAESAR, TELLS KPLC TV THAT HE’S CONCERNED THAT THE RESTRICTIONS ON FOUR WHEELERS WILL MEAN FEWER PEOPLE WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE CHICKEN RUN EVENT.
ABBEVILLE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A NEW IBERIA MAN, WHO THEY BELIEVE STABBED ANOTHER MAN TO DEATH YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. A MAN WAS FOUND WITH MULTIPLE STAB WOUNDS IN THE 200 BLOCK OF SUCRE AVENUE AND HE LATER DIED AT A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL. POLICE SAY 36-YEAR-OLD NICHOLAS WILSON OF NEW IBERIA HAD BEEN IN AN ARGUMENT WITH THE VICTIM AT THE VICTIM’S HOME BEFORE THE STABBING. ANYONE WITH KNOWLEDGE OF WILSON’S WHEREABOUTS IS URGED TO CALL ABBEVILLE POLICE, OR CALL 9-1-1.
THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED COUNCIL ON TUESDAY WILL VOTE ON A PLAN TO PROVIDE BUS SERVICE OUTSIDE OF THE CITY LIMITS. DEIDRA DRUILHET WITH THE ACADIANA PLANNING COMMISSION SAYS THEY WOULD START WITH FOUR BUS TRIPS A DAY MAKING STOPS ON HIGHWAY 90 IN SCOTT, DUSON, RAYNE AND CROWLEY, TAKING RIDERS TO S-L-C-C, U-L AND LAFAYETTE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER. SHE SAYS THE OVERALL GOAL IS TO EXPAND THE REGIONAL SERVICE TO OTHER PARTS OF ACADIANA. IF THE COUNCIL APPROVES THE PLAN, THE BUSES WOULD START RUNNING TO ACADIA PARISH AND WESTERN LAFAYETTE PARISH BEGINNING IN MID-AUGUST.
A LAKE ARTHUR MAN SWALLOWED MARIJUANA WHEN HE WAS PULLED OVER BY JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES. 19-YEAR-OLD TREVOR LEE ROMERO WAS STOPPED BY DEPUTIES FOR AN IMPROPER LANE CHANGE ON L-A 90 IN ROANOKE AT AROUND 2:25 WEDNESDAY MORNING. HE HAD TO BE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR MEDICAL CARE AFTER SWALLOWING THE MARIJUANA, BUT ONCE HE WAS CLEARED, HE WAS ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION. HIS PASSENGER, 19-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH WAYNE GRIFFIN OF JENNINGS, ALSO FACES THE SAME CHARGE.
