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A LAFAYETTE ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTTORNEY, GARY HAYNES, IS ON TRIAL THIS WEEK FOR A BRIBERY SCHEME. YESTERDAY AN ALLEGED CO-CONSPIRATOR OF HAYNES, DUSTY GUIDRY, TESTIFIED AGAINST HIM. GUIDRY SAYS HE WAS ON THE PHONE WITH SOMEONE TALKING ABOUT THE KICKBACK SCHEME INVOLVING THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES. GUIDRY SAYS HAYNES OVERHEARD HIS CONVERSATION AND TOLD GUIDRY HE WANTED IN.
NOBLE PLASTICS OF GRAND COTEAU WILL LAUNCH AN EIGHT-AND-A-HALF MILLION DOLLAR EXPANSION. ITS PURPOSE IS TO BOOST ITS PRODUCTION CAPACITY TO SUPPLY PRODUCTS TO THE FIRST SOLAR PLANT IN IBERIA PARISH WHICH IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN OPERATIONS LATER THIS YEAR. NOBLE PLASTICS WILL MAKE PRECISION-MOLDED PLASTIC COMPONENTS USED IN THE CONNECTION AND ENERGY TRANSFER SYSTEMS OF HIGH TECH SOLAR PANELS MADE BY FIRST SOLAR. THE EXPANSION OF NOBLE PLASTICS WILL RESULT IN TWENTY-NINE NEW JOBS.
CONGRESSMAN CLAY HIGGINS HAS SAID ANYONE POSTING INAPPROPRIATE THINGS ON SOCIAL MEDIA ABOUT CHARLIE KIRK SHOLD BE BANNED FOR LIFE. KIRK, A CONSERVATIVE INFLUENCER, WAS ASSASSINATED WHILE SPEAKING WEDNESDAY AT UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY. HIGGINS WAS UPSET WITH THOSE WHO CELEBRATED KIRK’S DEATH ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND SAID THEY SHOULD BE BANNED FROM ALL PLATFORMS FOREVER. HE SAYS HE WILL USE HIS CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORITY AND EVERY INFLUENCE WITH BIG TECH PLATFORMS TO ENACT THE BAN.
BARBE HIGH SCHOOL IN LAKE CHARLES WAS PUT ON LOCKDOWN YESTERDAY. SOMEONE MADE A CALL TO THE FRONT OFFICE SAYING THAT THERE WAS A STUDENT ON CAMPUS WITH A GUN. IT TURNED OUT THAT THE CALLER INTENDED TO CALL ANOTHER SCHOOL IN ANOTHER STATE WITH A LEGITIMATE TIP BUT ACCIDENTALLY CALLED BARBE HIGH SCHOOL. THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.
A LAFAYETTE MAN WANTED ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES HAS BEEN CAPTURED. A FEDERAL ARREST WARRANT WAS ISSUED FOR THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD MOSES HERNANDEZ. HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY ON WEDNESDAY IN YOUNGSVILLE. HERNANDEZ FACES A CHARGE OF POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAAPHY.
A SUSPECT IN THE THEFT OF AN S-U-V FROM THE WALMART PARKING LOT IN VILLE PLATTE HAS BEEN ARRESTED. A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD MALE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY IN BUNKIE ON A CHARGE OF THEFT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE. A BLACK CHEVY TAHOE WAS STOLEN ON AUGUST FIFTEENTH AND FOUND THREE DAYS LATER IN A DITCH OFF OF COTTON FESTIVAL ROAD. THERE WAS DAMAGE TO THE VEHICLE AND SEVERAL ITEMS WERE STOLEN FROM THE INTERIOR.
A TEXAS MAN WAS FOUND GUILTY OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER IN A LAKE CHARLES COURTROOM. FIFTY-YEAR-OLD ESKINDER MEKURIA OF HUMBLE, TEXAS SHOT AND KILLED FORTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD HUSHIAR SUMO ON L’AUBERGE BOULEVARD THREE YEARS AGO. THE TWO HAD BEEN SEEN PLAYING BACCARET AT THE GOLDEN NUGGET CASINO EARLIER THAT DAY. PROSECUTORS SHOWED EVIDENCE THAT MEKURIA SHOT SUMO IN A CAR THAT SUMO WAS DRIVING, CAUSING HIM TO CRASH THE VEHICLE.
THREE PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED IN SAINT MARY PARISH FOR CRUELTY TO THE INFIRMED. LAYNE MILLER REPORTS.
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