2-27-19
A Broussard woman arrested after posting a video of a school fight online will not be prosecuted. The Lafayette Parish district attorney’s office told news outlets it will not pursue a case against 32-year-old Maegan Adkins-Barras. She was arrested last week under a little known 2008 law that forbids people involved in crimes from posting video of those crimes to gain publicity. Adkins-Barras posted the video of the fight at Acadiana High School after receiving it from her son.
A LAKE CHARLES MAN IS FACING OBSTRUCTION CHARGES FOR HELPING A MAN HE DIDN’T KNOW THAT WAS FLEEING FROM STATE TROOPERS. TROOPER DEREK SENEGAL SAYS 26-YEAR-OLD THOMAS YOUNGBLOOD OF MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA RAN FROM A TRAFFIC STOP ON BELDEN STREET AND WENT TO THE HOME OF 33-YEAR-OLD JAMAHA ROBINSON, WHO LET HIM IN. YOUNGBLOOD WAS LATER SEEN COMING OUT THE BACK DOOR OF THE HOME WHERE HE WAS ARRESTED. YOUNGBLOOD AND TWO PASSENGERS IN THE CAR HAD ABOUT TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF COCAINE ON THEM.
THE SON OF THE OPELOUSAS POLICE CHIEF WAS ATTACKED MONDAY AFTER A COURT APPEARANCE ON MURDER CHARGES. JERMARCUS MCCLENDON FACES TWO CHARGES OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER FOR THE SHOOTING DEATHS OF 19-YEAR-OLD NAKIA RAMER AND 21-YEAR-OLD SHAWN PARISH IN SEPTEMBER OF 2016. LT. ROBERT MAY OF THE OPELOUSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS TWO MEMBERS OF THE VICTIM’S FAMILY ATTACKED MCCLENDON AS HE WAS BEING ESCORTED TO A WAITING VEHICLE. HE SAYS 30-YEAR-OLD ANTONIO BABINEAUX AND A 16-YEAR-OLD JUVENILE WILL FACE BATTERY CHARGES.
Tens of thousands of Louisiana Medicaid enrollees told they earn too much to stay in the program have a month to prove otherwise if they want to hang onto the health insurance. Louisiana’s health department sent letters this month to 37,000 Medicaid recipients notifying them they will lose the taxpayer-financed insurance coverage. The agency says those people have until March 29 to present information demonstrating they meet Medicaid income requirements or they’ll be ejected from the program at March’s end. U.S. Sen. John Kennedy says he intends to ask federal Medicaid officials to try to recoup any money spent on Louisiana enrollees who shouldn’t have received the coverage.
THE FORMER C-E-O OF THE SMILE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY IS ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT. JEFF HORCHAK REPORTS.
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A JEFF DAVIS PARISH MAN WANTED FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE BATTERY AND A WOMAN ACCUSED OF HIDING HIM WERE ARRESTED MONDAY. 31-YEAR-OLD KEVIN DALE WILKINSON IS ACCUSED OF HITTING HIS GIRLFRIEND IN THE HEAD AND NECK AREA AND REPEATEDLY KICKING HER WHEN SHE WAS ON THE GROUND. DEPUTIES BEGAN SEARCHING FOR HIM IN THE AREA AND TWICE ASKED 30-YEAR-OLD HEATHER CORMIER IF SHE’D SEEN THE SUSPECT FLEEING ON FOOT, WHICH SHE DENIED. LATER THEY SAW A SPEEDING CAR COMING FROM THE SUSPECT’S RESIDENCE. AFTER STOPPING THE VEHICLE, THEY FOUND CORMIER DRIVING AND WILKINSON INSIDE HER VEHICLE.
HIGH SCHOOLS IN VERMILLION PARISH WILL BE GETTING A NEW SECURITY IMPROVEMENT. THE COST IS ABOUT FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AND THE ABBEVILLE ROTARY CLUB WILL BE HOLDING A FUNDRAISER ON MARCH NINTH TO HELP PAY FOR IT. THE CLUB PRESIDENT ROB ROY SAYS THE FRONT DOOR TO THE SCHOOLS WILL BE LOCKED AND THE SCHOOL SECRETARY WILL HAVE A MONITOR TO SEE WHO’S AT THE DOOR AND TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEM. THE NEW SECURITY MEASURE IS ALREADY INSTALLED AT KAPLAN HIGH AS THE PILOT SCHOOL AND IT’S COMING TO NORTH VERMILLION, ERATH, ABBEVILLE AND GUEYDAN HIGH SCHOOLS.
FARMERS AND FIRST RESPONDERS IN ACADIA PARISH RECEIVED TRAINING ON HOW TO DEAL WITH A PERSON FALLING INTO A GRAIN BIN. TWO YEARS AGO, A CROWLEY MAN WAS KILLED WHEN HE FELL INTO A RICE BIN. MEMBERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI FARM BUREA ARE TRAVELING AROUND THE SOUTHEAST WITH A GRAIN BIN SIMULATER TO HELP TRAIN PEOPLE ON HOW TO RESPOND TO SUCH AN ACCIDENT. RAYNE FIRE CHIEF ALLEN CREDEUR TELLS KATC THAT ABOUT 70 PERCENT FARMERS IN ACADIA PARISH GROW RICE AND THEY CAME TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE TRAINING BECAUSE OF THE MECHANICAL ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH THE BINS.
