State Police have arrested the parents of an infant female found inside a garbage bag in Mississippi back in 1992. Inga Carriere was arrested in Avondale on February 28th and Andrew Carriere was arrested in Galliano on March 9th. State Trooper Kate Stegall says Picayune Police had various pieces of evidence, some of it tied to associations in Gretna, Louisiana
DNA evidence helped them close the case.
Metairie Representative Laurie Schlegel has filed legislation to give prosecutors twice the time to screen cases wherein a juvenile offender may be charged as an adult. After the 30-day deadline was missed for two New Orleans teens arrested for carjacking and attempted murder. She says her bill will help with similar cases…:
Cut 3 (07) “…as adult offenders.”
The session begins a month from today.
The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness will end its Hurricane Ida Sheltering Program on May 31st. GOHSEP Director Casey Tingle says the trailers were always viewed as a temporary living arrangement.
He says staff can assist those families who are still displaced.
If a crawfish boil is on your agenda this weekend, you’ll be happy to know the average price has dropped 50 cents a pound, to $2.84 a pound for live mudbugs. That’s according to Crawfish App Co-founder Laney King who says that’s on top of the drop in prices last weekend.
For boiled crawfish the average is $5.22 a pound.