Daily Archives: October 27, 2012

On October 26, 2012, Lafayette Police conducted an underage alcohol possession operation targeting those individuals under the age of 21 in possession of alcohol at businesses within the City of Lafayette.

A total of 13 locations were checked during the operation. Of the thirteen locations, seven persons under the age of twenty one were found in possession of alcohol.

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Louisiana’s constitution flatly says the right to bear arms shall not be abridged. But it also contains a clause that allows legislators to pass laws that bar people from carrying concealed weapons.

Voters will be asked whether they want to tinker with that language on Nov. 6. The second item on a list of proposed constitutional amendments would strike the exception and add language designed to strengthen already strong gun possession rights in the state.

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A New Orleans man was arrested Friday night for allegedly strangling a pregnant woman, according to Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office jail booking records. Michael J. Cooper, 42, was booked into Orleans Parish Prison about 5:30 p.m. Friday, records show.

Cooper was booked on charges of domestic abuse involving strangulation, domestic abuse involving a pregnant victim, and domestic abuse battery, records show.

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Former Ball Mayor Roy Hebron could be broke when he’s released from federal prison in a little over two years.

In court papers filed this week, federal authorities say they are notifying Hebron that his municipal retirement account is being garnished to pay the remaining $68,237 he owes for stealing from the federal government.

Hebron pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the federal government and was sentenced in May 2011 to 48 months in federal prison.

The 58-year-old six-term mayor is serving the sentence at a minimum-security facility in Pensacola, Fla.

Feds move to seize ex-Ball mayor’s retirement account