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AN ACADIANA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WAS ARRESTED AFTER HE ATTACKED A SCHOOL SAFETY OFFICER AND SCOTT POLICE RESOURCE OFFICERS. THE 17-YEAR-OLD STUDENT HAD BEEN TOLD HE HAD TO GO HOME BECAUSE HIS UNNATURAL HAIR COLORING VIOLATED THE SCHOOL DRESS CODE. HE WAS ALLOWED TO GO EAT LUNCH WHILE WAITING FOR HIS MOTHER TO PICK HIM UP, BUT A SCHOOL SAFETY OFFICER FOUND HIM HIDING IN AN UNAUTHORIZED AREA. THE STUDENT TURNED ON THE SCHOOL SAFETY OFFICER AS HE WAS BEING ESCORTED TO THE OFFICE, AND HE CONTINUED TO PUNCH, KICK AND YELL WHEN RESOURCE OFFICERS ATTEMPTED TO STOP HIM FROM FIGHTING.
AN INMATE AT THE OAKDALE CITY JAIL ESCAPED FOR A BRIEF WHILE YESTERDAY BEFORE BEING CAPTURED. DERRICK PAUL RODRIGUEZ HAD BEEN ARRESTED WEDNESDAY ON FELONY WARRANTS FROM RAPIDES PARISH AND HAD BEEN BOOKED INTO THE CITY JAIL. YESTERDAY MORNING AT ABOUT 10-30, RODRIGUEZ FORCEFULLY OVERTOOK A GUARD AND ESCAPED, BUT HE WAS TAKEN BACK INTO CUSTODY AFTER A BRIEF STRUGGLE SHORTLY AFTER ELEVEN. OAKDALE POLICE HAD HELP FROM THE WARD FIVE MARSHAL’S OFFICE IN CAPTURING RODRIGUEZ.
A ST. MARTINVILLE MAN WAS KILLED AND TWO YOUNG CHILDREN INJURED IN AN A-T-V ACCIDENT WEDNESDAY NIGHT. 30-YEAR-OLD JEREMY B. ARMAND AND THE TWO CHILDREN WERE ON THE A-T-V TRAVELING EAST ON GOLD DUST LOOP IN AVOYELLES PARISH WHEN ARMAND CROSSED THE CENTER LINE AND STRUCK AN ONCOMING VEHICLE. ARMAND, WHO WAS EJECTED FROM THE VEHICLE, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE, WHILE ONE OF THE CHILDREN, AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD, SUFFERED SEVERE INJURIES AND A THREE-YEAR-OLD CHILD HAD MODERATE INJURIES. NONE OF THOSE ON THE A-T-V WERE WEARING HELMETS. THE CHILDREN WERE TAKEN TO RAPIDES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER.
With his tax plans repeatedly blocked by House Republicans, Gov. John Bel Edwards is broadening his outreach efforts. He’s trying to build grassroots pressure for permanently stabilizing Louisiana’s budget and closing the latest looming, $1 billion-plus shortfall. The Democratic governor met with business leaders this week to brainstorm budget-balancing ideas. His chief financial adviser, Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne, is on the traveling speech circuit, making the case for revenue rather than cuts to close the gap.
Authorities are still looking for a Louisiana businessman who may have orchestrated the kidnapping of his estranged wife. Lawrence Michael Handley appears to be at the center of a tangled tale that led to two Jackson, Mississippi, men fleeing from sheriff’s deputies the wrong way down the shoulder of Interstate 10 against snarled traffic, then running off into a swamp on Sunday, only to be found drowned in the Intracoastal Waterway on Monday. The kidnapped woman, taken from her Lafayette home Sunday afternoon, was found alive and handcuffed in the van the men abandoned. Handley is proving more elusive, and Lafayette police tell local media he’s rich enough to flee or hide.
A WELSH MAN IS BEHIND BARS FOR TWO INCIDENTS WHERE HE THREATENED PEOPLE WITH A GUN. JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.
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MEMBERS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES SERVING ACADIA PARISH ARE ATTENDING A CONFERENCE TODAY IN CROWLEY. EACH LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL WILL GET AN UPDATED BLUE BOOK, WHICH HAS UPDATES ON POLICIES AND PROCEDURES. ONEACADIA IS HOSTING THIS SECOND ANNUAL EVENT. HERE’S ONEACADIA PRESIDENT LAURIE SUIRE.
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SO FAR, LOUISIANA HAS RECEIVED NEARLY ONE-POINT-7 BILLION DOLLARS IN FEDERAL AID TO HELP THE STATE RECOVER FROM LAST YEAR’S HISTORIC FLOODS. STATE OFFICIALS ARE HOPING TO GET MORE HELP AND THAT CHANCE WILL COME NEXT MONTH WHEN CONGRESS ATTEMPTS TO APPROVE A FEDERAL SPENDING PLAN. GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS ESTIMATES THE STATE NEEDS TWO BILLION DOLLARS MORE IN FLOOD RECOVERY DOLLARS. CONGRESSMAN GARRET GRAVES OF BATON ROUGE SAYS HE THINKS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WILL BE RECEPTIVE TO SUPPORTING ADDITIONAL AID IF THE STATE CAN DEMONSTRATE A NEED.
