9-29-23
AFTER RECEIVING A TIP ABOUT ILLEGAL NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING AT A HOME ON CHERBOURG (SHER brg) STREET IN OPELOUSAS, THE POLICE EXECUTED A SEARCH WARRANT YESTERDAY. THEY FOUND MORE THAN FIVE POUNDS OF SUSPECTED MARIJUANA IN THE HOME AS WELL AS ILLEGALLY POSSESSED FIREARM AND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH SHARLOW OF OPELOUSAS WAS ARRESTED. HE FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING POSSESSION WITH THE INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE SCHEDULE ONE NORCOTICS AND ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF A FIREARE IN THE PRESENCE OF SCHEDULE ONE NARCOTICS.
A NEW ROUNDABOUT IS PLANNED FOR THE INTERSECTION OF ROBLEY DRIVE AND EAST BROUSSARD STREET IN LAFAYETTE. LAFAYETTE’S DIRECTOR OF TRAFFIC, ROADS AND BRIDGES, WARREN ABADIE, SAYS THAT INTERSECTION IS CONGESTED AND IT’S DIFFICULT TO MAKE A LEFT TURN THERE. HE TELLS KATC TV THAT A ROUNDABOUT AT THAT INTERSECTION IS A NO-BRAINER TO HELP RELIEVE THOSE PROBLEMS. CONSTRUCTION ON THE TWO-POINT-SEVEN MILLION DOLLAR ROUNDABOUT IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN EARLY NEXT YEAR AND TAKE BETWEEN NINE AND TWELVE MONTHS TO COMPLETE.
A FEDERAL JUDGE’S PLAN TO HOLD HEARINGS NEXT WEEK TO DRAW UP CONGRESSIONAL BOUNDARY LINES THAT WOULD GIVE LOUISIANA A SECOND MAJORITY-BLACK DISTRICT HAS BEEN BLOCKED BY AN APPEALS COURT. SUPPORTERS OF ESTABLISHING A SECOND SUCH DISTRICT HAD HOPED A RECENT SUPREME COURT RULING UPHOLDING A REDRAWN MAP IN ALABAMA WOULD SOON PRODUCE SIMILAR RESULTS IN LOUISIANA. BUT A PANEL OF JUDGES AT THE 5TH U.S. CIRCUIT OF APPEALS SAID IN A 2-1 RULING THAT BATON ROUGH-BASED U.S. DISTRIC JUDGE SHELLY DICK WAS MOVING TOO QUICKLY,
A STATE TROOPER WAS ARRAIGNED IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH MONDAY ON CHARGES OF DOMESTIC ABUSE BATTERY. THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD AUBIN YOUNG IS ACCUSED OF STRIKING HIS EX-WIFE AT A GAS STATION IN JENNINGS LAST JANUARY. POLICE CHIEF DANNY SEMMES SAYS, AT FIRST, THEY DIDN’T ARREST YOUNG BECAUSE THEY WEREN’T SURE IF THERE WAS A PROBABLE CAUSE. THE ARRESST CAME AFTER THE JEFF DAVIS DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE REVIEWED THE FINDINGS OF AN INVESTIGATION.
A MAN WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED AT THE LIVE OAK MANOR APARTMENT COMPLEX IN ABBEVILLE MONDAY NIGHT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD RODERICK GUIDRY OF ABBEVILLE. POLICE SAY GUIDRY WAS A PERSON OF INTEREST IN A SHOOTING LAST FEBRURARY AT ZAZA’S HOOKAH LOUNGE. ABBEVILLE POLICE SERGEANT TIMOTHY BOURQUE SAYS THEY DIDN’T EVEN KNOW GUIDRY WAS BACK IN THE CITY UNTIL THE MONDAY NIGHT SHOOTNG HAPPENED. POLICE SAY THE SHOOTING MONDAY MAY HAVE BEEN A RETALIATION FOR ANOTHER EVENT.
EARLY VOTING FOR THE LOUISIANA GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY BEGINS TOMORROW. YOU CAN VOTE EARLY TOMORROW AND ANY DAY FROM MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NEXT WEEK. EARLY VOTING HAPPENS AT EVERY PARISH’S REGISTRAR OF VOTER’S OFFICE AND AT SOME OTHER LOCATIONS IN SOME PARISHES. THE ACTUAL ELECTION DAY FOR THE GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY IS OCTOBER FOURTEENTH.
THE LAST SURVIVOR OF PEARL HARBOR FROM LOUISIANA HAS DIED. ZANE HOGUE HAS MORE.
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A WOMEN HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN BREAUX BRIDGE ON A CHARGE OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. POLICE WERE NOTIFIED WEDNESDAY EVENING ABOUT A SHOOTING AT A HOME ON BARTON PLACE. WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THER FOUND THE BODY OF THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD DENZEL “TUE SHOW” ALEXANDER IN HIS HOME. THE WOMAN WHO WAS ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO ALEXANDER’S DEATH IS THIRTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD MARLENE MARIE DALCOURT.
