The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) is joining local emergency managers and officials from Mississippi and Alabama for a hurricane evacuation planning and icy roadway planning meeting.
Executing an arrest warrant for drug possession on a Henderson man on Tuesday, July 15, narcotic agents with the St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s Office say they found him in possession of even more drugs.
An added count of possession of Schedule II narcotics – methamphetamine – was levied at Jordan Ryder, 22.
The Richard Guidry Cajun and Creole Language Fund at Community Foundation of Acadiana (CFA) is accepting grant proposals that foster or extend the growth of the French language in public discourse, the arts or education.
The deadline for applications is Aug. 15.
Based a lengthy investigation that developed DNA evidence, the St. Martin Sheriff’s Office (SMSO) arrested Joseph H. Auguillard Jr., 29, of Breaux Bridge, in connection with a Jan. 19 sexual assault complaint.
Auguillard, a registered sex offender, was arrested on suspicion of committing forcible rape.
Shortly before 7 p.m. Monday, July 14, the St. Martin Sheriff’s Office (SMSO) was notified of suspicious circumstances at a truck stop on U.S. Highway 90.
When a deputy arrived, man who called in the complaint, Joseph Oquinn, 55, of Parks, told the lawman that he had placed a bomb in the truck stop.