9-8-26
RAYNE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A MAN FOR CARJACKING. FORTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD MICAEL DUPUIS JUNIOR, KNOWN AS T-MIKE, GOT INTO A VEHICLE IN THE PIGGLY WIGGLY PARKING LOT AND DROVE OFF AS TWO WOMEN, AGED SIXTY-EIGHT AND SIXTY-NINE, WERE LOADING GROCERIES INTO IT. POLICE LOCATED THE VEHICLE, BUT DUPUIS DID NOT PULL OVER UNTIL THE VEHICLE WAS DISABLED IN BREAUX BRIDGE, THEN HE FLED ON FOOT. HE WAS QUICKLY APPREHENDED AND IS IN THE ACADIA PARISH JAIL ON A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND.
TODAY THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT IS ASKING FOR INPUT ON THEIR PLANS FOR GROWTH IN THE COMMUNITY. GEORGE FAUST HAS THE DETAILS.
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LAKE CHARLES POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A HOMOCIDE WHICH HAPPENED AT AROUND MIDNIGHT YESTERDAY. TWO PEOPLE WERE SHOT NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF RYAN AND WEST CLAUDE STREETS. ONE OF THE TWO DIED SHORTLY AFTER POLICE ARRIVED ON THE SCENE. NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS URGED TO CALL LAKE CHARLES POLICE.
THE LOUISIANA SHRIMP ASSOCIATION IS PETITIONING PRESIDENT TRUMP TO CONSIDER RESTRICTING IMPORTED SHRIMP AND STRENGTHENING AMERICAN TRADE LAWS. GEORGE FAUST HAS MORE.
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OPELOUSAS POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A PERSON REPORTED MISSING. EIGHTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD JULES HENRY WAS LAST SEEN LEAVING HIS RESIDENCE SUNDAY NIGHT AND HASN’T BEEN SEEN SINCE. HENRY IS A BLACK MAN, FIVE FEET SIX INCHES TALL, WEIGHING ONE HUNDRED TWENTY POUNDS AND WAS LAST SEEN WEARING BLUE JEANS, A GRAY LONG-SLEEVE SHIRT, BLACK SHOES AND A FISHING HAT. ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON HIS WHEREABOUTS IS ASKED TO CALL THE OPELOUSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT.
A BROUSSARD MAN IS IN JAIL AFTER HE CRASHED HIS VEHICLE WHILE ATTEMPTING TO EVADE A TRAFFIC STOP AT AROUND TWO-THIRTY SATURDAY MORNING. AUTHORITIES SAY TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD LARRY HAMILTON JUNIOR RAN A RED LIGHT, CRASHING HIS FORD F-ONE-FIFTY INTO A CHEVY IMPALA. A PASSENGER IN THE IMPALA DIED AT THE SCENE WHILE THE DRIVER AND ANOTHER PASSENGER SUFFERED SERIOUS INJURIES. HAMILTON IS CHARGED WITH NEGLIGENT HOMOCIDE AND THREE COUNTS OF NEGLIGENT INJURING.
A HUNDRED PEOPLE DIED FROM OPIOD OVERDOSES IN CALASIEU PARISH IN TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE BUT TODAY THAT NUMBER IS LESS THAN HALF. ITS PART OF AN OVERALL DROP STATEWIDE IN OPIOID DEATHS. TANYA MCGEE OF IMPERIAL CALCASIEU HUMAN SERVICES AUTHORITY PARTLY CREDITS A BROADER SHIFT IN HOW THE COMMUNITY TALKS ABOUT ADDICTION. SHE SAYS MORE PEOPLE HAVE AN OPEN MIND ABOUT ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH.
IT’S BEEN MORE THAN THREE WEEKS SINCE SEVENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD PATRICIA MARKS WAS FOUND STABBED TO DEATH IN HER NEW IBERIA HOME AND HER FAMILY IS STILL SEEKING ANSWERS. HER LIVE-IN BOYFRIEND, SIXTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD WILFRED BABINO, WAS CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. MARKS’ DAUGHTER, RAVEN CELESTINE, SAYS THE FAMILY NEVER WITNESSED BABINO YELL AT OR ARGUE WITH MARKS. FAMILY MEMBERS SAID, LOOKING BACK, THEY REMEMBER MARKS ACTING DIFFERENTLY OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS BUT DID NOT CONNECT IT TO POSSIBLE DANGER.
