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9-19-18

A RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE DRAG QUEEN STORY TIME EVENT AT THE LAFAYETTE PUBLIC LIBRARY HAS FAILED.  THE RESOLUTION BY CITY PARISH COUNCILMEN WILLIAM THERIOT AND JARED BELLARD RECEIVED ONLY THREE VOTES WHILE THE OTHER SIX COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSTAINED.  THE STORY TIME IS SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE ON OCTOBER SIXTH.  KATC TV IS REPORTING THAT TWO RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS HAVE FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT OVER THE EVENT, BUT THERE WERE NO DETAILS.

 

MOST OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE ARE MOVING TO NEW FACILITIES AFTER MORE THAN FIVE DECADES IN THE PARISH COURTHOUSE.  SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, SHERIFF IVY WOODS BEGAN NEGOTIATING TO PURCHASE THE WEST BEHAVIORAL HOSPITAL, WHICH IS LOCATED ON HIGHWAY 90 JUST EAST OF THE NEW PARISH JAIL.  THE PROPERTY INCLUDES A SMALLER BUILDING TOWARD THE FRONT AND A LARGER MAIN BUILDING FURTHER IN.  WOODS SAYS HAVING MORE SPACE WILL ALLOW THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE TO INTERACT MORE QUICKLY AND EASILY WITH THE PUBLIC.

 

A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE TOWN OF CHURCH POINT IS HEADING TO COURT ON OCTOBER 15TH.  JOEY COMEAUX, THE C-E-O OF AN ACTIVE SHOOTER RESPONSE TRAINING COMPANY, FILED SUIT AFTER THEY WERE EVICTED FROM A FACILITY IN AUGUST OF 2015, EIGHT MONTHS AFTER THE TOWN LEASED IT TO HIM.  HE SAYS HE SPENT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS GETTING THE BUILDING OPERATIONAL.  HE CLAIMS THE TOWN COST HIM ABOUT NINE MILLION DOLLARS IN LOST REVENUE.

 

A report on racial profiling says black people in Louisiana are nearly three times as likely as whites to be arrested on a marijuana possession charge.  NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reports the Southern Poverty Law Center has found that black people in the state are 2.9 times more likely to be arrested for pot possession, even though a 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported black and white people use marijuana “at similar rates.”  The center is a nonprofit that advocates for equal justice and opportunity. The organization’s report was published Tuesday and its analysis of marijuana possession arrests is based on 2016 FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data.

 

A MAN WAS ARRESTED ON A DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED CHARGE AFTER HITTING A LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL BUS.  WITNESSES SAY BEAU BRANCH ATTEMPTED TO MAKE A U-TURN ON WEST WILLOW STREET NEAR PATTERSON STREET, AND HIT THE BUS.  FOUR STUDENTS FROM N-P MOSS PREPARATORY ACADEMY WERE ON THE BUS, BUT THEY AND THE BUS DRIVER WERE UNINJURED.  A WOMAN PASSENGER IN BRANCH’S CAR WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH INJURIES.

 

 

 

STATE POLICE HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THERE WERE A TOTAL OF FIFTEEN CRASHES ON I-TEN AND I-210 IN LAKE CHARLES YESTERDAY EVENING.  SERGEANT JAMES ANDERSON SAYS 33 VEHICLES WERE INVOLVED.  HE SAYS SOME MINOR INJURIES WERE REPORTED.  AS OF NINE LAST NIGHT, BOTH BRIDGES WERE CLEARED.

 

TODAY THE IBERIA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD WILL VOTE ON WHETHER TO PAY AN OUTSIDE COMPANY TO CONDUCT A SECURITY ASSESSMENT ON ALL PARISH SCHOOL FACILITIES.  JEFF HORCHAK HAS MORE.

 

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AN EMPLOYEE AT GILES AUTOMOTIVE’S SERVICE DEPARTMENT IN OPELOUSAS WAS ARRESTED ON FELONY THEFT CHARGES.  OPELOUSAS POLICE WERE CALLED TO CONDUCT A FULL INVESTIGATION INTO AN INTERNAL THEFT.  THEY ARRESTED 24-YEAR-OLD PENNY MARTIN OF ARNAUDVILLE.  MARTIN WAS BOOKED INTO THE ST. LANDRY PARISH JAIL ON A CHARGE OF FELONY THEFT TOTALLING TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.