Floyd Boudreaux and his son, Guy, were acquitted of 48 counts of dogfighting yesterday. District Judge Kristian Earles acquitted the two men, citing a lack of evidence. In a piece by The Advocate today, the Boudreauxes' attorney Jason Robideaux hinted that the case might not be over, hinting at more legal action in a civil suit, particularly against the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals who euthanized more than 50 dogs after the state police seized them.
"SPCA's killing of the Boudreaux's dogs, in my opinion, was illegal,” and against the wishes of the State Police, which handed over custody of the dogs to the agency. The state trooper who investigated the case said he thought the agency would house the animals and did not know about its plans to euthanize them.
Kathryn Destreza, with the Louisiana SPCA, was called as a witness earlier Wednesday.
Destreza, who was involved in the seizure of the animals, said she did not believe any one person ordered the animals to be euthanized but rather that it had been assumed by everyone within the agency that they would be. She said state law allowed the agency to euthanize the animals.
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to offer shares of its stock to the public for the first time.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.
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