A warrant has been issued for a Slidell man after investigators say he forced his way into a home and assaulted a woman. Lieutenant Suzanne Carboni says St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s deputies responded to the home U-S Highway 190 East, learning that 52-year-old Tyrone Mercadel had kicked in the door and attacked the woman.
Cut 6 (08) “…actively fighting them.”
Carboni says in self-defense, the woman fired two shots, hitting Mercadel in the leg.
A major drug trafficking organization is being dismantled in Claiborne Parish. What started with the arrests of 15 individuals on January 31st has now grown to 23 people being indicted. Multiple agencies including Federal, State, multiple Parish, and out of state law enforcement were involved in identifying and apprehending the accused. Authorities confiscated firearms, cash, and drugs including crack cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine.
President Trump is expected to make an announcement on global tariffs. He says one purpose of the tariffs is to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. U-N-O economics professor Dub Lane doesn’t believe jobs will come to the U.S. if China loses them because of tariffs. He says those jobs would probably go to Vietnam or Bangladesh.