Daily Archives: October 24, 2012

The man who is reportedly behind Busted in Acadiana has been charged with stalking and cyberstalking. Christopher Hebert was arrested last year on accusations he harassed and threatened a Lafayette woman via phone and the internet. Hebert’s arraignment hearing will take place November 27.

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NEW ORLEANS (WAFB) -

Federal agents seized 795 counterfeit items as the merchandise being shipped to New Orleans.

The items include fake NFL jerseys, NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL hats and counterfeit designer bags.

Agents with Homeland Security Investigations were able to intercept the shipment as it was being brought into the U.S. from overseas.

No arrests were made.

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BAKER, LA (WAFB) -

It took just a few hours for the mystery of the military photo found in a parking lot in Baker, LA to be solved; well, mostly solved.

Patty Goudeau found the photo in the parking lot of the DMV. There were no identifying marks on the obviously old photo, but the name Grady was written on the back. Goudeau has family members in the military, and says she felt it was her duty to make sure his photo was returned to him or his family.

The man’s family contacted WAFB after he saw the story during the 6 o’clock news. They say the man’s name is Grady J. Robinson, and he was from Central, LA. Mr. Robinson was in the Navy and fought in World War II. He died in August of 1993 at the age of 67.

Mr. Robinson’s family is grateful Goudeau saved the photo, but they have no idea how it ended up in the parking lot of the Baker DMV.

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GONZALES, LA (WAFB) -

After 61 years of not knowing what happened to their loved one, the family of Joseph William “J.W.” Fontenot is now able to lay their loved one to rest.

In February 1951, Fontenot was assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division when he was captured by enemy forces near Saemal, South Korea.  He reportedly died June, 28 1951, while in captivity at Camp 1 near Changsong, North Korea.

Fontenot was 20 years old. He was from Whitehall, Louisiana and was assigned to the Army’s Company L, 3rd Battalion, 38th Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division in Fort Louis, Washington. He was a Corporal.

Before joining the service, Fontenot was a strawberry farmer, along with his father, in Whitehall, LA.

His family spent the last 61 years not knowing where he was and if his body would ever be located.

In 1954, United Nations and Communist Forces exchanged the remains of war dead in what came to be called “Operation Glory.”  Among the remains that were turned over at that time were remains of servicemen who had died in Camp 1.

All of the remains recovered in Operation Glory were turned over to the Army Central Identification Unit for analysis. Those which were unable to be identified with the technology at that time were interred as unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.

“I couldn’t ask for a better day,” says Fontenot’s Sister Barbara Fontenot Noel. “The weather’s beautiful and my brother is home. He was just so happy and when he left in 1951 we got this telegram that said he had died. So we have been waiting for this for a long time.”

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Korean War soldier laid to rest after being missing for 61 years 

A Harvey teenager was arrested and booked with attempted second-degree murder for allegedly opening fire at an acquaintance after asking for a ride. Kelford “Bookie” Francis Jr., 17, of 1621 Ester St., was booked with use of a firearm in connection with drug activity, according to Glen T. Boyd, spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.

The shooting occurred about 9:15 p.m. on Oct. 16. The unidentified victim told investigators that Francis and another 17-year-old appeared at his home and asked for a ride to “Old Harvey,” a dead end of Brown Avenue in Harvey, a Sheriff’s Office incident report said.

The victim agreed to take the boys. He stopped in the 1000 block of Brown, and the unidentified teenager got out of the vehicle. However, Francis allegedly pulled out a black pistol, pointed at the back of the victim’s head and fired. But the victim spotted the gun and was able to duck, escaping harm, Boyd said.

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The New Orleans Police Departmentarrested a 15-year-old boy who robbed several people of their Apple iPhones at gunpoint in theMarigny and the French Quarter on Tuesday night. The juvenile is suspected of three separate incidents, the first of which was at 7:27 p.m. in the 1100 block of Royal Street, police said.

Police say the youth brandished a black revolver, approached a 60-year-old woman, demanded her phone, then snatched it and fled. Seven minutes later, he allegedly went up to a 39-year-old man sitting on the steps of a home in the 2100 block of North Rampart Street and asked for the time.

When the man pulled out his phone to check, the boy pulled his gun, took the phone and ran off, police said. Then, at 9:30 p.m., the suspect walked up to a 31-year-old man and 27-year-old woman who were taking photographs in the 600 block of Frenchmen Street.

Police said the boy drew the revolver and ordered the victims to surrender an iPhone, which they did before he left. NOPD detectives tracked the stolen phones to the 5300 block of Urquhart Street.

They spotted the teenager there and took him into custody. Police said they recovered the handgun believed to have been used in the robberies.

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BREAKING: Pollock escapee has surrendered and back in federal custody, officials say #KALB5 kalb.com/category/18517…

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KALB News Channel 5 (@KALBtv5) October 25, 2012

POLLOCK, La. – A prisoner escaped from work detail at U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock Wednesday afternoon.

According to the Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office, deputies were notified at 12 p.m. Wednesday that Craig Boudreaux, 33, escaped from the penitentiary’s grounds.

Boudreaux is described as a white man, 6-feet tall, weighting 200 pounds, who has tattoos on his body. Authorities say on his right arm, he has tattoos from his shoulder to his elbows. On his left arm, Boudreaux has a large tribal art tattoo on his left bicep, with his back also completely covered with tattoos.

If you have any information on Boudreaux’s whereabouts, call Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office at 318.627.3261.

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A person hunting arrow heads found a human skull west of Merryville in Beauregard Parish Tuesday, and now officials are working with a forensic unit to unravel the mystery.

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