9-19-24
THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THAT AN INMATE WHO ESCAPED FROM THE PARISH JAIL IS BACK IN CUSTODY. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
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A MOBILE HOME ON AMITE DRIVE IN LAFAYETTE WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING. NEIGHBORS TOLD FIRST RESPONDERS THAT SQUATTERS HAD BEEN STAYING IN THE PLACE, BUT THEY HAD LEFT BEFORE FIRE FIGHTERS ARRIVED. THE MOBILE HOME HAD BEEN ABANDONED SINCE ANOTHER FIRE DAMAGED THE MOBILE HOME THREE YEARS AGO. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
RESIDENTS OF WELSH WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH POWER OUTAGES THIS WEEKEND. OFFICIALS SAY THEY ARE NECESSARY TO REPLACE UTILITY POLES IN THE TOWN. THERE WILL BE THREE SEPARATE POWER OUTAGES ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF WELSH. FOR A LIST OF THE TIMES AND THE STREETS COVERED, GO TO KLFY-DOT-COM.
STATE REVENUE SECRETARY RICHARD NELSON PRESENTED GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY’S TAX PLAN THAT THEY HOPE LEGISLATORS WILL APPROVE IN A SPECIAL SESSION. THE PLAN WOULD COLLAPSE LOUISIANA’S GRADUATED INCOME TAX STRUCTURE INTO A FLAT TAX FOR CORPORATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS, ACCORDING TO THE ADVOCATE. NELSON SAYS IT WILL MAKE LOUISIANA A MORE ATTRACTIVE PLACE TO LIVE AND INVEST IN. IT WOULD REQUIRE LEGISLATORS TO ELIMINATE TAX BREAKS AND EXTEND SALES TAXES TO SERVICES THAT ARE CURRENTLY UNTAXED.
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH HOUSING AUTHORITY SAYS HE WAS WRONGFULLY TERMINATED BY PARISH PRESIDENT JESSIE BELLARD. WILLIE HAYNES THE THIRD ASKED THE PARISH COUNCIL TO REINSTATE HIM AT LAST NIGHT’S MEETING BUT THE COUNCIL UPHELD BELLARD’S DECISION. BELLARD SAID HAYNES WAS NEGLIGENT IN NOT PROPERLY DOING INSPECTIONS. HE SAYS THEY WILL NOW BEGIN THE SEARCH FOR A NEW BOARD CHAIRMAN.
A FEDERAL GRAND JURY HAS INDICTED FORMER LAFAYETTE ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY GARY HAYNES. HE OVERSAW THE PRETRIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAM, WHICH OFFERED ALTERNATIVES TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION FOR CERTAIN CHARGES. HAYNES AND OTHERS ARE ACCUSED OF TAKING BRIBES AND KICKBACKS IN ORDER TO ACCEPT PEOPLE IN THE PROGRAM. HAYNES FACES UP TO SIXTY-FIVE YEARS IN PRISON IF CONVICTED ON THE CHARGES, WHICH INCLUDES CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT BRIBERY.
SUSPECTS IN A TWENTY-EIGHTEEN DOUBLE MURDER IN LACASSINE HAVE REACHED A PLEA DEAL. TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD JORDAN ALEXANDER LEGROS AND TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD JAVART GUIDRY WERE INDICTED ON CHARGES OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER BUT PLED GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER. SEVENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD WALTER JOSEPH GOTREAUX AND SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD DARLENE CECILIA GOTREAUX WERE FOUND DEAD IN THEIR HOME. LEGROS WAS SENTENCED TO THIRTY YEARS IN PRISON FOR MANSLAUGHTER AND THIRTY YEARS FOR AGGRAVATED BURGLARY WHILE GUIDRY WAS GIVEN TWENTY YEARS FOR MANSLAUGHTER AND THIRTY-FIVE YEARS FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
A COTEAU HOLMES WOMAN SAYS HER LIFE IS A STRUGGLE EVER SINCE HER HUSBAND, WILLARD DASPIT JUNIOR, DISAPPEARED ON SEPTEMBER TENTH OF LAST YEAR. HE LEFT HIS HOME ON HIS BIKE AND LATER, WHEN HIS WIFE, LARA WENT LOOKING FOR HIM, SHE FOUND HIS BIKE, HELMET AND GLASSES ON THE GROUND. SHE THEORIZES THAT HE’S BEEN KIDNAPPED BECAUSE SOMEONE TOLD HER THEY SAW HIM BEING PICKED UP BY SOMEONE IN A WHITE VEHICLE. SHE SAYS SHE HAS SOME DOGS TO TAKE CARE OF, WHICH HELPS HER GET BY SO SHE DOESN’T JUST SPEND HER MORNINGS IN BED CRYING.
