8-1-22
LAFAYETTE POLICE RESPONDED TO THE SCENE OF A MOTORCYCLE CRASH ON SUNDAY. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS THE DETAILS.
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A TEENAGE BOY WAS INJURED IN A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY IN OPELOUSAS. POLICE SAY A GROUP OF JUVENILES CAME OUT OF A HOME ON RICE LANE FIRING SHOTS AT ONE ANOTHER. A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY SUFFERED GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE LEFT LEG AND ARM. NONE OF THE WOUNDS WERE CONSIDERED LIFE-THREATENING. OPELOUSAS POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE SHOOTING.
Louisiana’s abortion ban is positioned to be enforced again, after an appeals court ruled the state must be granted a suspensive appeal while a lawsuit challenging the ban continues to play out in court. It wasn’t immediately clear when the ban would go back into effect. According to lawyers of the plaintiffs in the case, the ban cannot be enforced until a state judge signs the motion. The decision is expected to shut down clinics for the third time since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month to end Roe V Wade.
ONE MAN WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH ON L-A ONE-TWELVE IN ALLEN PARISH THAT HAPPENED AT AROUND ONE-THIRTY SUNDAY MORNING. THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD CODY ALLEN REEVES OF SUGARTOWN WAS TRAVELING EAST WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE, STRUCK A TREE AND OVERTURNED. REEVES, WHO WASN’T WEARING A SEATBELT, WAS EJECTED AND PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. LOUISIANA STATE POLICE SUSPECT SPEED WAS A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT.
THERE’S BEEN A MAJOR SURGE IN CATALYTIC CONVERTER THEFTS NATIONWIDE AND LAFAYETTE IS TAKING PART IN THAT TREND. DETECTIVE JONATHAN SANCHEZ WITH THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THEY NOTICED AN INCREASE IN THE CATALYTIC CONVERTER THEFTS IN OCTOBER AND HE ESTIMATES THAT SINCE THEN, THERE HAVE BEEN THREE HUNDRED REPORTED THEFTS IN LAFAYETTE. SANCHEZ TELLS THE ADVOCATE THAT THIEVES CAN GET AROUND TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS PER CONVERTER BUT SOME SUSPECTS ARRESTED TOLD POLICE THEY WERE GETTING AROUND SIX HUNDRED BY SELLING TO BUYERS IN HOUSTON. SANCHEZ SAYS HE’S NOTICED SOME VEHICLES BEING TARGETED INCLUDING TOYOTA TUNDRAS AND THE HONDA ELEMENT.
JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES MADE AN ARREST IN RESPONSE TO A COMPLAINT OF INDECENT BEHAVIOR WITH A JUVENILE. THE MOTHER OF A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL TOLD DEPUTIES SHE HAD HAD RELATIONS WITH A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD AND A NINTEEN-YEAR-OLD SOMETIME BETWEEN JULY TENTH AND FIFTEENTH. THE NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD, BENNY ROY FREEMAN OF KAPLAN, WAS ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF CONTRIBUTING TO THE DELINQUENCY OF JUVENILES, PORNOGRAPHY INVOLVING JUVENILES AND CARNAL KNOWLEDGE OF A JUVENILE. HE’S BEING HELD IN THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH JAIL AND BAIL HAS NOT BEEN SET.
Beginning today, police in Louisiana won’t be able to use the smell of marijuana as a reason for warrantless searches of homes. A prohibition making such searches illegal without warrants is one of numerous laws that take effect today as a result of the 2022 regular legislative session. Other new laws include several overhauling regulation of medical marijuana, and one allows military veterans and active-duty troops in Louisiana to carry concealed handguns without permits. Another doubles fines for speeders on the Atchafalaya Basin bridge.
THE WATER TOWER IN MORSE IS BEING REPAIRED AND THE EXTERIOR CLEANED AND PAINTED. THE TOWER WILL NEED TO BE DRAINED IN ORDER TO MAKE THE IMPROVEMENTS, ACCORDING TO A NOTICE FROM THE VILLAGE OF MORSE, AND THE TOWER WILL REMAIN OFFLINE FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROJECT. THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT WILL BE FULLY OPERATIONAL AND WATER PRESSURE WILL BE MAINTAINED BY THE EXISTING WATER WELLS. HOWEVER, THE VILLAGE IS ASKING RESIDENTS TO BE CONSERVATIVE WITH THEIR WATER USAGE WHILE THE WATER TOWER IS OFFLINE.
