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YOUNGSVILLE POLICE ARE WARNING RESIDENTS TO BE VIGILANT AFTER RESPONDING TO ATTEMPTED VEHICLE BURGLARIES. GEORGE FAUST HAS THE DETAILS.
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A CHURCH POINT MAN WAS ARRESTED FRIDAY FOR THE BURGLARY OF A RESIDENCE EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. JAMES CHACHERE JUNIOR WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL WHERE HE AWAITS BOND. CHURCH POINT POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR TWO OTHER PEOPLE IN CONNECTION TO THE BURGLARY, THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD KHRISTEN OLIVER OF NORTH WILSON STREET AND THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GASTON WHEELER OF SYLVIA STREET. ALL THREE ARE FACING CHARGES OF BURGLARY OF AN INHABITED DWELLING AND FELONY THEFT.
AN ARREST HAS BEEN MADE IN CONNECTION TO A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING WHICH HAPPENED EARLY FRIDAY MORNING ON SUNDALE DRIVE IN LAKE CHARLES. CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO THE SCENE OF THE SHOOTING AT AROUND ONE A-M FRIDAY. NO ONE WAS INJURED. THEY ARRESTED THIRTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD JUSTIN CARTER SENIOR OF LAKE CHARLES, WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SEVERAL FELONIES INCLUDING ASSAULT BY DRIVE-BY SHOOTING.
GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY CONGRATULATED DANIEL KRESSY, WHO BECAME THE FIRST PATIENT IN LOUISIANA TO BE CURED OF SICKLE CELL THROUGH GENE THERAPY. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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THE THIRD AND FINAL PHASE OF RENOVATIONS TO THE DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE COURTHOUSE HAVE BEEN COMPLETED, ACCORDING TO AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT THURSDAY. THE RENOVATIONS TOOK MORE THAN THREE YEARS TO COMPLETE AND COST TWELVE-POINT-TWO MILLION DOLLARS. DISTRICT ATTORNEY DON LANDRY TELLS THE ADVOCATE THE RENOVATIONS MAKE IT EASIER FOR VICTIMS, WITNESSES, JURORS AND OTHER PEOPLE TO NAVIGATE THE CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. HALF THE COSTS WERE COVERED BY STATE CAPITAL OUTLAY FUNDS WHILE L-C-G PAID FOR THE REMAINING HALF.
A THREE-VEHICLE CRASH ON HIGHWAY THIRTEEN WEDNESDAY NIGHT NEAR CROWLEY CLAIMED THE LIFE OF A LAKE CHARLES MAN. STATE POLICE SAY A NORTHBOUND DODGE NITRO AND A SOUTHBOUND G-M-C TERRAIN BOTH CROSSED THE CENTERLINE ON HIGHWAY THIRTEEN NORTH OF CROWLEY AND COLLIDED. THE DODGE THEN HIT A VOLKSWAGEN ATLAS PARKED ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD KENNETH MANUEL, WHO WAS A PASSENGER IN THE DODGE NITRO, DIED AT THE SCENE.
A JENNINGS MAN WAS INDICTED LAST WEEK FOR EXPLOITING A YOUNG CHILD. TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH REGAN JUNIOR WAS ARRESTED LAST JANUARY FOR UPLOADING AN EXPLICIT PHOTO OF A FIVE-YEAR-OLD ONTO A SHARED ALBUM, PROMPTING THE CHILD’S MOTHER TO CALL AUTHORITIES. REGAN WAS INDICTED WEDNESDAY ON CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED PRODUCTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY BY A PARENT OR GUARDIAN AND POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. HE FACES UP TO THIRTY YEARS IN PRISON IF CONVICTED.
THE BURN BAN FOR VERMILLION PARISH HAS BEEN LIFTED. IT WAS PUT IN PLACE IN AUGUST. THERE ARE NO BURN BANS NOW IN PLACE IN ACADIANA OR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA.
