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9-26-22

A LAFAYETTE MAN IS DEAD FOLLOWING A HIT-AND-RUN CRASH IN SAINT MARTIN PARISH.  SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.

 

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A HOUSE FIRE IN SCOTT HAPPENED WHEN FIRE SPREAD TO THE HOME FROM A BURNING TRASH PILE.  BY THE TIME FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED SATURDAY AFTERNOON, THE MANUFACTURED HOME ON LA RUE BIARRITZ WAS FULLY ENGULFED IN FLAMES.  THEY WERE ABLE TO BRING THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL QUICKLY BUT THE HOUSE IS A TOTAL LOSS.  WHILE INVESTIGATING THE CAUSE, FIREFIGHTERS WERE TOLD BY NEIGHBORS THAT THE HOMEOWNER WAS BURNING A PILE OF TRASH AND LEFT THE PREMISES, AND DURING THAT TIME, THE FIRE SPREAD TO THE HOUSE.

 

A federal judge has decided not to block the state’s plan to move two dozen troubled juvenile offenders from a suburban New Orleans detention center to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. The Advocate reports Chief U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick, in a 64-page ruling issued late Friday, denied a motion to immediately halt the plan, despite calling it “untenable” and “disturbing.” There is no set date on which the agency plans to relocate them. Gov. John Bel Edwards has said the Angola move would be a short-term solution.

 

A MAN WAS KILLED AFTER BEING SHOT WHILE DRIVING IN OPELOUSAS.  SEVERAL ROUNDS WERE FIRED AT THE VEHICLE WHILE IT WAS BEING DRIVEN ON INA CLARE DRIVE AT AROUND ONE A-M SUNDAY MORNING.  THE DRIVER WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL BUT DIED ON THE WAY, ACCORDING TO THE OPELOUSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT.  THEY ASK ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING TO CALL OPELOUSAS POLICE OR CRIMESTOPPERS AT NINE-FOUR-EIGHT-TIPS.

 

A VEHICLE CRASH IN LAKE CHARLES FRIDAY AFTERNOON HAS TURNED INTO A HOMOCIDE INVESTIGATION.  FORTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD HUSHIAR FARSI SUMO OF HOUSTON WAS DRIVING NEAR THE L’AUBERGE HOTEL WHEN HE WENT OFF THE ROADWAY AND CRASHED INTO A TREE.  WHILE POLICE TRIED TO HELP THE MAN, THEY DISCOVERED HE HAD BEEN SHOT, AND HE DIED WHILE BEING TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL.  ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING IS ASKED TO CALL LAKE CHARLE POLICE AND ASK FOR THE LEAD DETECTIVES, SERGEANT KEVIN HOOVER OR SERGEANT HOPE SANDERS.

 

A MINISTRY IN LAFAYETTE HELD A MARCH FOR HOPE TO END VIOLENCE IN THE COMMUNITY.  HUNDREDS PARTICIPATED IN THE MARCH SATURDAY THAT WENT DOWN LOUISIANA AVENUE.  THE DIRECTOR OF HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES IN LAFAYETTE, BENJAMIN RHODES, TOLD KLFY TV THAT IT WAS A MONUMENTAL MOMENT FOR THE COMMUNITY THAT HAS NOT SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT BEFORE.  THE PRESIDENT OF THE ORGANIZATION, MONTEZ POWELL, SAYS THEIR MISSION IS TO TAKE THE HATE OUT OF MAN’S HEART AND THAT IS HOW CRIME IS TAKEN OFF THE STREETS.

 

A STATE REPRESENTATIVE ANNOUNCED FRIDAY THAT HE’S ENTERING A TREATMENT PROGRAM FOR ALCOHOLISM.  REPUBLICAN STUART BISHOP HAS SERVED AS A STATE REPRESENTATIVE FOR LAFAYETTE SINCE TWENTY-TWELVE.  HE RELEASED A STATEMENT ANNOUNCING HE WAS ENTERING THE THIRTY-DAY PROGRAM TO FOCUS ON HIS ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE.  HE SAYS HIS TOP PRIORITY WHEN HE RETURNS IS TO BE THE BEST HUSBAND, FATHER AND COMMUNITY SERVANT POSSIBLE.

 

A CARETAKER FROM GUEYDAN WAS ARRESTED BY THE ACADIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE FOR STEALING FROM THE PERSON SHE WAS HIRED TO TAKE CARE OF.  DETECTIVES DETERMINED THROUGH AN INVESTIGATION THAT ONE HUNDRED NINETY-ONE CHECKS HAD BEEN ISSUED BY THE CARETAKER, FIFTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD REGINA ROCHE, TOTALLING AROUND FIFTY-SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS.  SHE ALLEGEDLY FORGED SOME OF THE CHECKS WHILE OTHERS WERE SIGNED BY THE VICTIM, WHO DID NOT KNOW WHAT SHE WAS DOING.  ROCHE WAS BOOKED INTO THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL ON ONE HUNDRED NINETY-ONE COUNTS OF FORGERY AND SIXTEEN COUNTS OF EXPLOITATION OF THE INFIRMED.