An arrest has been made in the Quawan Charles case. The St. Mary Parish 15-year-old who was found in a wooded area of Iberia Parish last November. Iberia Sheriff Tommy Romero says they arrested one of the last people to see Charles alive, 37-year-old Janet Irvin.
Irvin’s exact role in Charles’s death is not known.
The House and Senate Natural Resources Committees are holding a joint meeting at the State Capitol today discussing the impacts and possible responses to President Biden’s executive orders halting new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and waters. Chair of the Senate Committee, Vermillion Parish Senator Bob Hensgens says the meeting allows local officials to explain personally how it impacts the state.
Governor John Bel Edwards extends the current modified Phase Two for another three weeks, but indicates he is open to relaxing restriction once that order ends. Edwards says the state has made some good progress in pushing back the virus over the last month, but the baseline numbers that guide his policymaking remain too high to relax restrictions just yet.
A Blackthorn PAC ad is calling for Congressman Clay Higgins to resign. In the ad, it refers to Higgins as a domestic terrorist and says he has blood on his hands after the January 6th riot. Blackthorn organizer Ken Miller says Higgins’s must answer for his extreme rhetoric.
Higgins responded by saying he’s not concerned with the false attacks.