After eight years, an arrest is made in the killing of a Washington Parish mother of three. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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A 43-year-old LaPlace woman was arrested after allegedly setting fire to a home with a child still inside. Kace Kieschnick reports.
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Eight years later, an arrest is made in the murder of a Washington Parish mother of three. Deputies arrested Scott Jordan in connection with the 2017 deadly shooting of 40-year-old Donna Arceneaux inside her home. Washington Parish Sheriff Jason Smith says this case has weighed on the community ever since that late October day that year.
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Sheriff Smith says while there had been talk back then about Arceneaux’s death being a suicide, law enforcement never officially reached that conclusion – the case simply went unsolved.
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Smith says after he became sheriff, he took the case back from State Police, and investigators quickly zeroed in on Jordan.
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Jordan is in the Washington Parish Jail on one count of second-degree murder; no bond has been set as of yet.
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A LaPlace woman was arrested for setting fire to a home with a child still inside last Friday night. State Fire Marshal spokesman Ken Pastorick says investigators determined that the blaze was intentionally set.
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(43-year-old Brandi Frank was arrested and is charged with one count each of arson and cruelty to a juvenile.) The St. John the Baptist Fire Department responded to the house fire on West Frisco Drive; and while on the scene, Pastorick says they discovered a child had been in the home when it was set ablaze.
Thanks to a working smoke alarm, Pastorick says no one was hurt.
He says smoke alarms save lives and encourages Louisiana residents to test their alarms regularly or get one if they don’t have one.
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With Governor Landry serving as special envoy to Greenland, how does that affect his job at home? LaPolitics-dot-com editor Jeremy Alford says being that the capital of Greenland is almost three-thousand miles from Baton Rouge, that will make Landry’s new side hustle a little challenging.
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Alford says logistics could also be an issue.
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Alford says while there are state laws that prohibit people from holding two offices at the state time, those refer to state positions. Thus, a volunteer role as a special envoy would not fall into that category.