From the Caesar’s Superdome Wednesday, Governor-elect Jeff Landry announced the next superintendent of State Police when he takes office in January will be Major Robert Hodges, a 28-year veteran of LSP and a New Orleans native will be the state’s leading law enforcement agency. The governor-elect says he will bring in as much of a law enforcement presence into the city as necessary to keep the entire city safe…
Reports filed in the 3rd District Court say 23 year old Jacoby Johnson confessed to the stabbings on the Campus of Louisiana Tech earlier this month that killed one and injured three others. La Tech Police arrested Johnson 4 minutes after receiving a 911 call then transported him to a local hospital. Johnson confessed to La Tech Assistant Police Chief Bill Davis while he was being treated for a cut, saying he snapped under pressure and stress of school work, became angry and wanted to attack people. Johnson said if he had not been caught he would have continued to attack others. He has been held without bond since his arrest on November 13. A sanity hearing for Johnson’s mental capacity is scheduled for January 23.
The Department of Children and Family Services is urging EBT cardholders to immediately change their PIN. DCFS fraud director Rhonda Brown says EBT cardholders should take this action, because multiple skimming devices at various retailers have been discovered around the state
A skimmer is a device installed on card readers that allows a thief to steal a customer’s information, including their PIN number.
If you want to see the world’s tallest Christmas tree structure, just make your way toward north Louisiana to DeSoto Parish which now holds the world record with its 300-foot-tall tree structure. Sheriff Jayson Richardson says the tree is lit from 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm every night. He says hundreds of people have already come to Stonewall to see the light setup.
The Christmas display will remain lit until the first week of January.