5-22-23
STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SINGLE VEHICLE CRASH IN SAINT MARTIN PARISH, WHERE A WOMAN’S BODY WAS RECOVERD FROM A BAYOU. DANIELLE DUNCAN REPORTS.
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A TRUCK DRIVER DIED IN A FIERY CRASH ON THE NORTH I-FORTY-NINE FRONTAGE ROAD BETWEEN GLORIA SWITCH AND PONT DES MOUTON. IT HAPPENED WHEN THE DRIVER OF THE EIGHTEEN-WHEELER HIT AN UN-OCCUPIED ABANDONED VEHICLE THAT WAS PARKED ON THE SHOULDER. THE IDENTITY OF THE DRIVER HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED.
TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN A THREE-VEHICLE CRASH IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH AT AROUND NINE SATURDAY NIGHT. SIXTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD JACOB TOUCHET OF IOWA WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON HIGHWAY ONE-OH-ONE NEAR RAOUL ROAD WHEN HE GOT REAR-ENDED BY THE DRIVER OF A CHEVY CAMARO. HE AND HIS PASSENGER, SIXTY-YEAR-OLD SUSAN TRAHAN OF LAFAYETTE, WERE EJECTED AND THEN HIT BY THE DRIVER OF A PICKUP TRUCK. BOTH WERE KILLED. THE CRASH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION AND TOXICOLOGY SAMPLES WERE TAKEN FROM TOUCHET AND THE OTHER TWO DRIVERS.
LAST WEEK A BILL IN THE STATE SENATE THAT WOULD CREATE AN OFFICE OF THE STATE CHILD OMBUDSMAN RECEIVED UNANIMOUS SUPPORT AND NOW MOVES TO THE STATE HOUSE. THE OMBUDSMAN WOULD PROVIDE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES AND THE OFFICE OF JUVENILE JUSTICE. LATE LAST YEAR THE LEADERS OF BOTH AGENCIES RESIGNED AMID CONTROVERSIES. LOUISIANA IS ONE OF FIVE STATES THAT DOES NOT HAVE AN OMBUDSMAN AND EACH OF THOSE STATES RANK AMONG THE WORST IN THE NATION FOR CHILD-WELLBEING, ACCORDING TO RICK WHEAT OF LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES.
AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING A FATAL CRASH NEAR THE I-FORTY-NINE GRAND COTEAU EXIT. THE CRASH INVOLVED A MOTORCYCLE AND TWO OTHER VEHICLES. NO OTHER INFORMATION ON THE CRASH HAS BEEN MADE AVAILABLE. THE I-FORTY-NINE NORTHBOUND LANES WERE CLOSED FOR AWHILE BEFORE BEING REOPENED LAST NIGHT.
LAFAYETTE POLICE GOT A CALL AT AROUND SEVEN SATURDAY MORNING FROM A HOMEOWNER IN THE THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF EAST SIMCOE STREET, SAYING A DEMOLISHED CAR WAS IN THEIR YARD. POLICE SAY THE DRIVER WAS KILLED AFTER LEAVING THE ROADWAY AND HITTING SEVERAL TREES BEFORE ROLLING INTO THE YARD. POLICE SAY THE CRASH HAPPENED SHORTLY BEFORE TWELVE-THIRTY SATURDAY MORNING AND THE DRIVER WAS EJECTED FROM THE VEHICLE. THEY IDENTIFIED THE DRIVER AS SEVENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD ANDREW LEBLANC OF HOUSTON.
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A FENTON POLICE OFFICER SAYS SCAMMERS ARE USING A-I TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE CONVINCING VIDEOS, AUDIO CLIPS AND PICTURES. SERGEANT VERNON O’QUINN SAYS HE RECEIVED A VIDEO FROM HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW SAYING HE NEEDED TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS. O’QUINN SAYS HE HAD SUSPICIONS AND CALLED HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, WHO SAID IT WASN’T HIM WHO HAD CALLED. O’QUINN WARNS PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THE ELDERLY, TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT BECAUSE THESE DEEP FAKE SCAMS ARE SO REALISTIC, ANYONE CAN BECOME A VICTIM.
THE ACADIA PARISH CORONER SAYS HUMAN REMAINS LEFT OUTSIDE SAINT JOSEPH ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN RAYNE BELONGED TO AN ADULT THAT WAS MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS OLD, BUT HE COULDN’T IDENTIFY THE SEX BECAUSE OF THE DETERIORATION OF THE PELVIS. THE REMAINS ALONG WITH A NOTE WITH SYMBOLS AND OTHER ITEMS WERE ARRANGED OUTSIDE THE CHURCH THURSDAY MORNING. POLICE HAVE NOT RELEASED ANY MORE INFORMATION. PARISH CORONER DOCTOR MARK DAWSON SAYS THE BONES WILL BE KEPT AT GOSSEN FUNERAL HOME FOR SEVERAL MONTHS IN CASE SOMEONE TRIES TO CLAIM A RELATION TO THEM.
