Landry Parish for aggravated battery, simple assault, assault with a firearm, resisting aβ¦. The St. Martinville Police Civil Service Board voted unanimously to uphold the city council's decision to fire a police officer alleged of threatening to kill a resident.
An arrest has been made in connection to a deadly shooting that claimed the life of a year old boy in Lafayette. Two brothers arrested in connection with a February Duson home invasion in which a wheelchair-bound man was killed pleaded no contest Monday to accessory-after-the-fact instead of the oriβ¦.
A year-old boy has been identified as the victim killed in a Lafayette shooting Saturday night, police said. Lafayette police are investigating a homicide after a person was shot to death Saturday night. Lafayette man allegedly hits ex-girlfriend then runs from police resulting in him wounding himself.
Two people are facing juvenile cruelty charges as a result of a recent investigation. Iberia Parish deputies arrested five people in connection with incidents of stealing bronze military plaques from local graveyards. Two candidates who qualified for the Lafayette police chief position have been eliminated, leaving four candidates to proceed to panel interviews in the weeks ahead. A former Church Point police officer has been arrested on two counts of molestation of a juvenile, according to a statement from the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office.
The search for Lafayette's next police chief is nearing an end after six applicants qualified for the position by taking and passing a civil service test. The civil service board in St. Martinville will determine whether the city's deputy police chief can return back to work next week after he was fired in October. The Opelousas Police Department is investigating a shooting involving a child. The human remains found in Ville Platte in December have been identified as a woman who's been missing since June.
