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Last Updated: Jan 17, 2022 04:08PM • Subscribe via RSS • ATOM

Intoxicated Driver Arrested After Attempting to Strike Officers With Vehicle

Jan 17, 2022 04:08PM ● By Staff Writer

Dominque Mills drove through a crime scene barricade at a high rate of speed towards officers. LPD Officers had to leap out of the path of Ms. Mills’ vehicle to avoid being struck...

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Suspects Arrested on Armed Robbery and Other Charges

Jan 06, 2022 05:36PM ● By Staff Writer

Lafayette Police arrested Selena Smith and Juwan Abraham on 2 counts of armed robbery, 2 counts of armed robbery with a gun, prostitution, and aggravated second-degree battery...

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Potier to Remain Interim Commander of Lafayette Police Department

Jan 06, 2022 04:46PM ● By Flint Zerangue, Sr.

LCG: A national search to fill the Police Chief position will begin immediately...

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Shreveport Businessman Sentenced on Wire Fraud Charge

Jan 06, 2022 04:26PM ● By Flint Zerangue, Sr.

DeBerardinis pleads guilty to committing wire fraud and defrauding many people out of millions of dollars...

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Third Marine from Southern California killed in Kabul

Aug 30, 2021 03:38PM ● By Bethany Blaley

A third Marine from Southern California has been identified as among the 13 U.S. service members killed at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul...

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Two Louisiana Men Arrested in TN Human Trafficking Sting

Jul 13, 2021 04:33PM ● By News Desk

An undercover investigation, aimed at addressing human trafficking in middle Tennessee, resulted in the arrest of 18 men accused of seeking illicit sex from minors...*

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Over 65K Counterfeit 3M Masks Seized in Chicago

Mar 05, 2021 05:11PM ● By Press Release

Throughout the past year, criminal enterprises exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to sell counterfeit, unapproved, unsafe PPE, and pharmaceuticals...

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Local Sheriff’s Warn Citizens of Phone Scammers Posing to be Law Enforcement Agents

Feb 09, 2021 04:23PM ● By Flint Zerangue, Sr.

The scammer claims to have a warrant for the recipient’s arrest, demanding money in exchange for resolving the warrant...

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LPSO Narcotics Agents Make Back To Back Busts, Arresting two and Seizing Nearly 40 lbs of Narcotics

Feb 05, 2021 03:39PM ● By News Desk

LPSO says both men are facing charges after consecutive overnight traffic stops led to the discovery of illegal narcotics and weapons...

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New Iberia Man to Serve 10 Years in Prison

Feb 05, 2021 02:45PM ● By Flint Zerangue, Sr.

Alfonzo JohnLouis, 42, of New Iberia, Louisiana, was sentenced to 120 months (10 years) in prison followed by...

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Lafayette Man Arrested in South College Murder

Feb 05, 2021 12:36PM ● By Flint Zerangue, Sr.

Cody Guccione has been arrested for the death of a 37-year-old man in an apartment in the 700 block of S. College Rd...

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New Iberia City Marshal Charged in Forgery Investigation

Feb 04, 2021 03:23PM ● By Flint Zerangue, Sr.

New Iberia City Marshal Haywood “Tony” Migues was charged and booked into the Iberia Parish Jail following an investigation into alleged falsifying of subpoena signatures...

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FTC Received 18,780 Fraud Reports from Louisiana Consumers in 2020

Feb 04, 2021 02:23PM ● By News Desk

New Data Shows FTC Received 18,780 Fraud Reports from Louisiana Consumers in 2020. Louisiana consumers reported losing $21,538,613 to scams last year...

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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Investigating Boating Fatality in St. Landry Parish

Jan 19, 2021 03:32PM ● By Press Release

The body of Thomas Godeaux, 50, of Port Barre, was recovered from the Old Courtableau waterway around 3:40 p.m. on Jan. 18...

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Couple Sentenced For Obtaining $1.7 Million in Military Health Care Kickback Scheme

Jan 13, 2021 01:45PM ● By News Desk

NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that KIMBERLY HOMRIGHAUSEN, age 44, and RICHARD HOMRIGHAUSEN, age 37, were sentenced on January 7, 2021 by...

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