9-25-25
A SEARCH AND SEIZURE WAS CONDUCTED AT THE A-AND-A CONVENIENCE STORE ON SOUTH CHATAIGNER IN VILLE PLATTE. THIS COMES AFTER COMPLAINTS WERE FILED ABOUT THE SELLING OF ALCOHOL, T-H-C VAPES AND KRATOM TO PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE. A PERSON WHO IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS THE MANAGER, ALI GHARAMA, WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH POSSESSION WITH THE INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE KRATOM, POSSESSION OF A FIREARM IN THE PRESENCE OF CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES AND TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING PROCEEDS FROM DRUG OFFENSE. AN ARREST WARRANT ON THE SAME CHARGES HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE OWNER OF THE STORE, MOHAMMED HUSSAIN, WHO IS REPORTEDLY IN YEMEN.
A SECTION OF JOHNSTON STREET WAS CLOSED FOR ABOUT AN HOUR BECAUSE OF A MULTI-CAR CRASH. THE WRECK HAPPENED JUST BEFORE SIX-THIRTY. LANES WERE CLOSED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS BETWEEN THE INTERSECTIONS WITH CAMELIA BOULEVARD AND RENA DRIVE AND THEY WERE REOPENED AT AROUND SEVEN-THIRTY. THE CAUSE OF THE CRASH IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. THE POLICE DID NOT PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION ON INJURIES.
A JENNINGS MAN IS UNDER ARREST IN CONNECTION TO A FIRE THAT ENDANGERED TWO PEOPLE. GEORGE FAUST REPORTS.
VOICER J :27
EARLY VOTING BEGINS SATURDAY FOR THE OCTOBER ELEVENTH ELECTION. THE EARLY VOTING WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY, OCTOBER THIRD, EXCLUDING SUNDAY, FROM EIGHT-THIRTY-TO SIX EACH DAY. SEVERAL PROPERTY TAX RENEWALS ARE UP FOR VOTES IN VARIOUS PARTS OF ACADIANA. THERE ARE ALSO CHIEF OF POLICE RACES IN SUNSET AND GRAND COTEAU.
A FATAL SHOOTING LAST YEAR AT HOMECOMING FESTIVITIES IN SAINT MARTINVILLE HAS LED TO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES THIS YEAR. POLICE CHIEF RICKY MARTIN SAYS A TIGER FUN DAY WILL BE HELD AT MAGNOLIA PARK ON OCTOBER THIRTY-FIRST, WHICH IS HOMECOMING DAY, STARTING AT ONE. HE SAYS IT WILL REPLACE TAILGATING AND WILL BE GEARED TO BEING A MORE FAMILY-ORIENTED EVENT. MARTIN SAYS ATTENDEES WILL BE CHECKED AT THE PARK GATE AND OFFICERS WILL BE STATIONED AT DIFFERENT SECTIONS TO MAINTAIN SECURITY AND CONTROL ACCESS.
A LAFAYETTE MAN WAS SENTENCED YESTERDAY TO TWENTY YEARS IN PRISON FOR HIS PART IN A SHOOTING THAT TOOK THE LIFE OF A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN JULY OF TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE. THE GIRL, JA’NYA HEBERT, WAS IN THE BACK SEAT OF A VEHICLE WITH OTHER GIRLS WHEN SHE WAS SHOT AND KILLED. TWENTY-YEAR-OLD ROYTRAVIAN SIMPSON WAS INDICTED FOR SECOND-DEGREE MURDER BUT REACHED A DEAL FOR A LESSER CHARGE BECAUSE A BALLISTICS TEST DETERMINED THE FATAL BULLET DID NOT COME FROM HIS GUN. SIMPSON’S BROTHER, NATREVIAN, PLED GUILTY IN JULY TO MANSLAUGHTER AND WILL BE SENTENCED IN DECEMBER.
A GUN WAS FOUND LAST FRIDAY WITH A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT IN MEMPHIS THAT HAD ONCE BELONGED TO FORMER JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF IVY WOODS. THE GUN HAD BEEN STOLEN IN 2016 WHEN WOODS AND THEN CHIEF DEPUTY CHRISTOPHER IVEY STOPPED IN MEMPHIS ON THEIR WAY HOME. THE GUN, A FORTY-CALIBER GLOCK, WAS STOLEN ALONG WITH SOME CLOTHES AND JEWELRY, WHEN SOMEONE BROKE INTO WOODS’ CHEVY SUBURBAN. WOODS SAYS HE’S HAPPY NO ONE WAS HURT THAT THEY KNOW OF BY HIS WEAPON.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR BILLY NUNGESSER AND LOUISIANA MAIN STREET ARE AWARDING FUNDING TO TWELVE LOUISIANA MAIN STREET COMUNITIES TO HELP BOOST THEIR DOWNTOWN GROWTH. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
VOICER I :32
