9-17-24
ONE PERSON IS IN STABLE CONDITION AFTER BEING SHOT IN NEW IBERIA. POLICE RECEIVED A CALL AT AROUND FIVE-THIRTY YESTERDAY ABOUT A SHOOTING AT THE CITY HEIGHTS MAGNOLIA PLACE APARTMENTS ON EAST DALE STREET. WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY FOUND AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN IN THE PARKING LOT WITH A GUNSHOT WOUND. CAPTAIN LELAND LASETER OF THE NEW IBERIA POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THEY ARE WORKING TO FIGURE OUT WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SHOOTING.
A DONALDSONVILLE MAN WAS ARRESTED FOR BREAKING INTO A HOME IN RIVER RANCH. THE HOMEOWNER CAUGHT THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD LANGSTON GREEN IN THE HOME AND HIT HIM SEVERAL TIMES WITH A BASEBALL BAT. THE HOMEOWNERS EXITED THE HOME AND CALLED THE POLICE. BY THE TIME THEY ARRIVED, GREEN HAD LEFT THE HOME BUT HE WAS FOUND A SHORT WHILE LATER AND ARRESTED ON A CHARGE OF SIMPLE BURGLARY OF A RESIDENCE.
IT’S VOTER REGISTRATION WEEK AND LOUISIANA VOTERS HAVE LESS THAN A MONTH TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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KPLC TV IS REPORTING THERE ARE SEVERAL PROBLEMS AT ELTON TOWN HALL DUE TO TURNOVER, INCLUDING DELINQUENT BILLS, NEW SYSTEMS AND UNPUBLISHED MEETING MINUTES. INTERIM MAYOR MIKE PIERROTTI SAYS THE TOWN CLERK RESIGNED AND HE’S HAD TO HANDLE THE CLERICAL DUTIES HIMSELF. PIEROTTI SAYS HE’S REACHED OUT TO THE LOUISIANA MUNICIPAL CLERK ASSOCIATION FOR ASSISTANCE IN FINDING A NEW CLERK. AS FAR AS DELINQUENT BILLS, HE SAYS THEY’VE CAUGHT UP ON ABOUT SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF PAYMENTS AND THE TOWN IS STILL FINANCIALLY SOUND.
THERE WERE TWO SHOOTINGS IN VILLE PLATTE ON SATURDAY THAT RESULTED IN ONE DEATH AND THREE INJURIES. A TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD MAN, WHO WAS WOUNDED IN THE FIRST SHOOTING AT AROUND TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE-PM AT THE PARKVIEW APARTMENTS ON DUPRE STREET, IS IN STABLE CONDITION. IN THE SECOND SHOOTING THAT NIGHT AT THE INTERSECTION OF HUEY P. LONG AND REED STREETS, THREE PEOPLE IN A VEHICLE WERE SHOT AND ONE OF THEM, A NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, DIED FROM HER INJURIES. POLICE CHIEF A PERRY THOMAS SAYS THEY DON’T KNOW AT THIS TIME IF THE SHOOTINGS ARE CONNECTED.
THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT IS BRINGING IN OUTSIDE EXPERTS TO REVIEW THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT SWAT TEAM. MAYOR PRESIDENT MONIQUE BOULET MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON THAT THE NATIONAL TACTICAL OFFICERS ASSOCIATION WILL CONDUCT A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW. THE ANNOUNCEMENT COMES AFTER A LAFAYETTE SWAT OFFICER WAS KILLED DURING AN HOURS-LONG STANDOFF IN JEANERETTE LAST MONTH. AN INVESTIGATION REVEALED SEGUS JOLIVETTE WAS HIT BY A BULLET THAT CAME FROM A POLICE OFFICER’S WEAPON.
THIS PAST WEEKEND WAS THE OPENING WEEKEND FOR DOVE HUNTING. AGENTS WITH THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES CITED SEVENTY-FIVE PEOPLE ACROSS THE STATE FOR HUNTING VIOLATIONS. TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE DOVES WERE SEIZED AND DONATED TO LOCAL CHARITIES.
THE IBERIA PARISH MOSQUITO CONTROL DISTRICT IS CONDUCTING AERIAL SPRAYING OPERATIONS THIS WEEK. IT BEGAN YESTERDAY AND WILL RUN THROUGH THURSDAY. AERIAL OPERATIONS WILL BEGIN NEAR SUNSET AND LAST ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF. THE INTENDED SCHEDULE MAY BE ALTERED DEPENDING ON WEATHER CONDITIONS.
