8 men accused of driving boats while intoxicated on Tickfaw, Blind River arrested
On May 2, LDWF agents arrested Wallace Wolfe, 54, of Gonzales, Todd Bourgeois, 38, of Paulina, and Dustin Miller, 24, of Franklinton after allegedly operating a boat while impaired on the Blind River and Diversion Canal. Agents also arrested Brandon Lecompte, 43, of Youngsville on the Tickfaw River the same day.
On May 3, Chase Hebert, 30, of Prairieville, was arrested and charged with a second-offense DWI on the Blind River. Three others—Courtland Ray, 31 of Livingston, Joseph Bardzilowski, 58, of South Dakota, and Stephen Holland, 29, of Kentwood—were also arrested on the Tickfaw River and charged with DWI.
LDWF said Blake O. Comardelle, 31, of Maurice, was cited for careless operation of a vessel after being involved in a boating incident on May 2 that resulted in serious but non-life-threatening injuries to himself and a passenger.
LDWF said anyone arrested for DWI on the water faces the same penalties as on the road. This includes losing both driving and boating privileges, fines, and possible jail time.
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Pence: ‘I fully support' Trump's deployment of National Guard to DC
Former Vice President Pence said on Sunday he 'fully' supports President Trump's approach to combating crime in Washington, D.C., through his recent crackdown on the nation's capital. 'I welcome his decision to deploy the National Guard and essentially federalize the D.C. Police Department. I know that it's all now working in a very cooperative way,' Pence said in an interview on CNN's 'State of the Union.' 'I think it's important what the president is doing. I fully support it. And I think the American people welcome the president taking decisive action to ensure the streets of our nation's capital are safe and also continues to provide resources across the country to make all of our cities and towns and communities safe,' Pence added. The National Guard started ramping up its presence in Washington on Thursday, deploying troops to the National Mall and Metro stations after the president announced the move earlier in the week in what he portrayed as a crackdown on crime in the nation's capital. The White House said more than 1,600 personnel were involved in operations across the city on Wednesday, making 45 arrests, mostly targeting immigrants who lacked permanent legal status. While the Guard had a relatively small footprint in the city earlier this week, by Thursday, all of the roughly 800 Army and Air National Guard troops Trump ordered to the streets had mobilized for duty, the Pentagon confirmed. On Saturday, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) announced the deployment of 200 National Guard troops to Washington, just hours after West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R) announced between 300 and 400 National Guard troops would be traveling to the nation's capital.
Politico
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- Politico
Playbook: Trump's crackdown hits Washington
Presented by With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine and Ali Bianco Good morning. I'm Zack Stanton. Get in touch. DRIVING THE DAY THE IN-BETWEEN: Yesterday morning, just off of 14th Street NW, a group of masked law enforcement officers arrested a moped driver. Onlookers stood near a coffee shop and the entrance to a luxury condo building, recording the altercation on their phones; WaPo reporter Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff was among them. Shouts from the crowd that the officers — whose vests read simply 'police' — identify the agency with which they were affiliated were dismissed. 'Do I have to answer to you?' one officer barked back, his question rhetorical. 'You've gotta answer to somebody,' yelled a pedestrian. The officers never identified themselves, never provided their badge numbers, never revealed their agency. They took the moped driver into an unmarked SUV and spirited him off, destination unknown. A block away, the weekend brunch service at Le Diplomate continued without interruption. Welcome to the first weekend of President Donald Trump's crackdown on Washington, D.C., which, serious as it has been, is just a prelude — and things could quickly get much more intense. Three Republican-led states — West Virginia, Ohio and South Carolina — 'said Saturday they will send up to 750 National Guard troops to join 800 already mobilized in D.C.,' WaPo's Karen DeYoung and Gaya Gupta report. It's not a leap to imagine that other GOP states will scramble to follow suit, given the chance to publicly and tangibly show their support for the Trump administration: 'Trump: Yes or no?' continues to be the dividing line defining American politics. And troops deployed to DC 'are preparing to start carrying weapons in the coming days,' WSJ's Vera Bergengruen and colleagues scooped, 'a major shift that comes days after President Trump said he was deploying them to 'take back' the capital from what he described as violent criminals.' Broadly, there is agreement that this is a city on the brink. The real differences come over why and what sits on the other side. These are the in-between times, when we're in transit from the world that was to the world that will be. For critics of the president, of whom there are many in Washington, what has happened in the city — the effective sidelining of locally elected officials, the federal takeover of the city's police, the surge of National Guard troops, the masked and unidentified federal police officers, the Humvees parked outside Union Station, conveniently located for the cameras — is enough to draw suggestions of creeping authoritarianism. … And yet, for all the outrage, yesterday's protest march from Dupont Circle to the White House numbered only in the 'scores' of demonstrators, per NYT's Alyce McFadden. For supporters of the president's actions, crime in the district is a blaring crisis that merits an overwhelming federal response to avoid something like failed-state status. They point out that crime, while on a downward trend, is unacceptably commonplace (the district's homicide rate is still 'almost as high as New York's at its most dangerous, in 1990,' NYT's Maureen Dowd notes). It demands a round-the-clock response, with FBI agents patrolling the street on foot. … And yet, much of the federal response has been concentrated in some of the safest areas of the city rather than those neighborhoods most devastated by crime. More than half of the district's homicides last year occurred across the Anacostia River in Wards 7 and 8, The Atlantic's Michael Powell writes; as recently as Friday, they had yet to see much of a federal response, per USA Today's Josh Meyer. Which inevitably raises a question: How much of this is for the spectacle? 'What's happening here in Washington, DC, is just a stunt,' Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said this morning on NBC's 'Meet the Press.' 'Trump didn't like the fact that the walls were closing in on him … and so, true to form, he just decided to create a new news cycle.' There may be an element of that, but the argument also presents something of a messaging difficulty for Democrats: If it's a distraction, why should Americans take it seriously? SUNDAY BEST … — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the war in Ukraine and potential consequences for Russian President Vladimir Putin, on ABC's 'This Week': 'I think ultimately, if this whole effort doesn't work out, then there is going to have to be additional consequences to Russia. But we're trying to avoid that by reaching a peace agreement. … The problem is this: the minute you levy additional sanctions, strong additional sanctions, the talking stops. … You've probably just added six, eight, nine, 12 more months to the war, if not longer. … That's what happens if you do that.' — Special envoy Steve Witkoff on the war in Ukraine and the details of a potential peace deal, on 'Fox News Sunday': '[Trump] understands that it is for the Ukrainians to decide how they might land swap, how they might make a deal with the Russians on different territories there. … I think the president supports a peace deal … and he got through almost all of it in Alaska.' On security guarantees: 'It means that the United States is potentially prepared to be able to give Article V security guarantees but not from NATO, directly from the United States, and other European countries.' — Witkoff on the potential trilateral to end the war in Ukraine, on CNN's 'State of the Union': 'My belief, my view is that we are going to get to a trilateral. And what we're trying to accomplish on Monday is get some consensus from President Zelenskyy and his team. We had some really good, specific, granular conversation on the plane ride home with President Zelenskyy about what he would be seeking.' — Jake Sullivan, former national security adviser, on the war in Ukraine and a potential peace deal, on 'Fox News Sunday': 'I think we will all see what comes out of that meeting on Monday. 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Also joining: French President Emmanuel Macron, British PM Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Why they're coming: Trump already backed away from the idea of a ceasefire first, so Europe wants to make sure Ukraine's key red lines aren't crossed — namely, that it won't have to cede huge swaths of territory in the name of peace, POLITICO's Gabriel Gavin and colleagues write from Europe. Ukraine is ready to talk territorial concessions, Zelenskyy told reporters today, but only starting from the contact line of fighting (meaning: not the ever-envied eastern Donetsk region). 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New York Post
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- New York Post
DC Dems safety delusions: Letters to the Editor — Aug. 18, 2025
The Issue: Democrats' opposition to the Trump administration's takeover of Washington, DC, policing. It's actually quite astounding watching Democrats protesting against a safer Washington, DC. They must like the murders, carjackings, robberies and sexual assaults that happen on a daily basis ('$oros DC protests,' Aug. 13). They must also relish victimhood. J.J. Levine Miami Beach, Fla. In response to President Trump dispatching federal officers to the streets of DC, Sen. Chuck Schumer said, 'I feel perfectly safe' walking around the US Capitol grounds and vicinity. Of course, he forgot to mention that he has 24-hour taxpayer-funded security and the use of a car. I bet his younger staffers who don't enjoy around-the-clock security may whisper that they don't share their boss' view. David Tulanian Henderson, Nev. Stating that the statistics prove that DC crime is down, Hillary Clinton has accused Trump of overreacting to Washington's out-of-control crime problem. Perhaps 'Her Majesty' should speak to a large audience comprised solely of crime victims in Washington who haven't a single Secret Service agent assigned to protect them. And when one of them asks her about the agents that are assigned to her, Bill and Chelsea, her answer would surely be enlightening. Could it possibly be: 'Well, our lives are very important and yours aren't?' Myron Hecker Pearl River I guess I was naive to expect Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser to completely agree with Trump's National Guard mobilization to combat crime in DC. She would rather protect the city's autonomy than protect the citizens who get beaten, robbed and carjacked by roving, marauding thugs infesting her district. Joseph Valente Miami Beach, Fla. Of course, we have our usual and typical left-leaning idiots led by Chuck 'Humor,' who continues to be a clown. He had the audacity to go on live TV and say that DC is fine, and he walks around the city every day. What he omits is the fact that he is escorted by Capitol Police while walking and also while roaming the halls of Congress. Ask the people who are beaten and carjacked daily how safe Washington, DC, really is. Lou Bivona Belleville, NJ The Issue: The Toronto International Film Festival's effort to exclude an Oct. 7 documentary. Of course liberals in the Canadian film industry wouldn't have wanted the world to see what Hamas did to innocent civilians on Oct. 7, 2023 ('Backlash at film festival,' Aug. 15). Those who committed such heinous atrocities should not be entitled to any 'legal clearance.' Betsy Flor Putnam Valley As a member of Everything Jewish Toronto, I'm writing to say how pleased many of us are for your front-page coverage of TIFF's initial refusal to show the Oct. 7 movie. It was clear antisemitism, and most of the Canadian media ignored it. Thank you for your great coverage. Arthur Weinreb Toronto, Ontario With individuals and groups around the world minimizing what occurred on Oct. 7 — and frankly, dehumanizing the Israeli victims — it is crucial that this documentary film is included in the Toronto International Film Festival to be released for all to see. Amy Hendel Tarzana, Calif. I wonder, looking back to World War II, if we should have gotten Hitler's permission to use death camp footage in Frank Capra's films on the war atrocities. This is just ridiculous. John Giriat The Bronx Want to weigh in on today's stories? Send your thoughts (along with your full name and city of residence) to letters@ Letters are subject to editing for clarity, length, accuracy, and style.
