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BATON ROUGE – Attorney General Jeff Landry today announced the arrest of a now-former Kaplan police officer on multiple child sex charges.
“My Cyber Crime Unit and I are committed to investigating and arresting those who exploit our children, no matter their professions or positions,” said AG Landry. “Crimes against children are some of the most heinous acts imaginable, and they are even more despicable when perpetrated by people in authority who are supposed to be protecting kids.”
Casey Huffman, 28, of Kaplan, has been arrested and charged with 7 counts of Pornography Involving Juveniles Under the Age of Thirteen (possession), 2 counts of Pornography Involving Juveniles Under the Age of Thirteen (production), and 3 counts of First Degree Rape of a Juvenile Under the Age of Thirteen.
The arrest was a result of a joint investigation with the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office, Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office, and Kaplan Police Department. Huffman was booked into the Vermillion Parish Jail.

ABBEVILLE – A funeral service will be held on Saturday October 31, 2020 at 1:00PM at David Funeral Home in Abbeville, LA honoring the life of Raymond A. Zenon Sr. He passed away on Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 7:06AM at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Center in Lafayette, LA at the age of 85.
Visitation will be held Saturday October 31, 2020 at 9:00AM until the service begins at 1:00PMat David Funeral Home in Abbeville, LA. He will be laid to rest at Our Lady of the Lake Cemetery with Minister John Charles, son in law will be officiating the services.
Raymond was born to the late Golden Sr and Edna (Vallot) Zenon on August 28, 1935 in Abbeville, LA. In 1960, he graduated from USL in Lafayette, Louisiana as a Chemical Engineer.  On December 31, 1960 he married Mary L. Zenon of New Iberia, LA. In 1961, they moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa to pursue his Engineering career. In 1963, they moved back to Abbeville, LA and he continued working as a professional Engineer.  In 1978, they moved to Liberal, Kansas for career advancement until 1982 when he returned to Grosse Isle in Abbeville, Louisiana.
Raymond was happily married to his wife for nearly 60 years. To this union, 5 children were born. Raymond was passionate about the Lord, his family, gardening, and taking care of his yard.
He leaves to cherish his memories his wife Mary L. Zenon of Abbeville, LA.  Four daughters; Marilyn Angela Adams (Bill) of Hillsboro, MO.,  Sandra Annette Charles (John) of Scott, LA., Carolyn Ann Hernandez (Joshua) of Abbeville, LA., and Brenda Faye Levy (David) of Lafayette, LA. Two sisters: Edna Boutte of New Iberia, LA and Marie Boutte of Abbeville, LA and five grandchildren: Angela August, Brittni and Brenna-Jade Charles, Ariel and Jarod Adams and a host of nieces and nephews.
Raymond was preceded in his death by his son Raymond A Zenon Jr., his parents Golden Sr. & Edna Zenon. Five brothers: Edward Zenon Sr., Eldridge Zenon Sr., Walter Zenon Sr., Golden Zenon Jr., Loveless Zenon Sr. and a host of nieces and nephews.
Servings as pallbearers will be David Zenon Sr., Golden Zenon III, Gene Zenon Sr. , Walter Zenon Jr, Chad Zenon, and Donovan Landry.
You may sign the guest register book online at www.davidfuneralhome.com
“In order to help keep the community safe we will honor the July 13, 2020 Louisiana Mandates.  All families and their guests are required to wear a face covering while at the funeral home. Thank you for your understanding during this unprecedented time.” 
David Funeral Home of Abbeville,  2600 Charity Street, (337) 893-3777 is in charge of arrangements.

Vermilion Parish Public Schools will be letting its hybrid students return to campus, starting next week, announced school superintendent Tommy Byler.
Byler gave the school district’s game-plan to transition back into five-day a week attendance, which is how it was before COVID-19.
In a six-minute video, Byler informed parents and students the transition from a hybrid schedule to a regular schedule would begin next week on Nov. 2.
For the last two months, public school students have been attending school every other day. Some would attend on Monday, Wednesday, and every other Friday. Others would go Tuesday, Thursday, and every other Friday.
Next week, high schools and middle schools will slowly be transitioning back to a five-day a week schedule. Byler warned parents and students the transition would not be easy, and there will be hiccups along the way.
“We need everyone to be patient,” said Byler.
Students will still need to wear a mask and practice social distancing.
Byler is leaving it up to each school s on how they want to handle their students’ return.
The administrators from each high school will sit with the middle school administrators in their community and develop a plan.
Example: Abbeville High’s administrators will meet with J.H. Williams Middle School administrators to develop a plan on how to bring back the students.
Byler said some schools might welcome back one grade on a specific day and another grade the next day. Other schools may wait until Nov. 9 and welcome everyone back.
School administrators have to figure out bus routes since the school bus can only be 75 percent full or 45 students per bus. Byler said the school system could not afford to have any bus drivers get COVID-19 because of the shortage of substitute bus drivers.
“The first few days may have delays with bus routes,” Byler said. “There is no way to figure out bus routes and bus numbers until we figure out who is riding the bus.”

This current presidential race feels all so familiar. Like the 2016 race, the latest polls show Donald Trump significantly behind his Democratic opponent. Once again, the media is confidently predicting his demise and delighting in their dream of an upcoming Democratic victory.
The Democratic presidential candidate has a huge financial advantage in the final stage of the campaign. In 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approximately twice the campaign funds of Donald Trump. In this race, Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, has an extra $180 million in his campaign coffers. This will give him a tremendous boost in the final appeal to undecided voters in the battleground states.
While Donald Trump is creating enthusiasm and excitement with large crowds at rallies, the Democratic presidential candidate is drawing flies and has no energy. Hillary had smaller crowds than Donald Trump, but Biden only draws a handful of people in socially distant circles.
There are nagging questions about the health of the Democratic presidential candidate. In 2016, Hillary Clinton had frequent coughing fits and seemed quite sick on several occasions. In this race, Joe Biden has made memorable errors during speeches and interviews, leading some health experts to question his mental competence.
In the final days of the 2016 race, mysterious emails surfaced to cast doubt on the veracity of Hillary Clinton. After the FBI refused to charge her for the unforgivable handling of 30,000+ emails sent from an unsafe home-based computer, the laptop of her assistant’s husband, Anthony Weiner, was discovered with even more emails to process. They were quickly reviewed, and no charges were issued, but the episode reminded Americans of Hillary’s previous scandal.
In the homestretch of this campaign, the laptop of Hunter Biden, the former Vice President’s son, was discovered at a Delaware computer repair shop. It contained thousands of emails linking Joe Biden to corrupt business dealings in China and Ukraine. It solidified the public’s impression of Joe Biden as a lying, crooked politician.
In this race, as in 2016, Trump’s opponents have thrown everything possible against him, hoping enough will stick to cause his downfall. Both Clinton and Biden enjoyed the enthusiastic support of a biased national media, which is virulently anti-Trump with no objectivity or fairness in their reporting.
Yes, the 2020 presidential race has striking similarities with the 2016 election. The key difference is former candidate Donald Trump is now President of the United States. He has a four-year record of success to showcase to the American electorate.
His 2016 opponent was a tired political hack. Hillary Clinton spent decades aspiring to become President, finally winning the Democratic Party nomination in a battle with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The same is true of Trump’s 2020 opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, who also bested Sanders in a nomination contest. However, Biden has been in the Washington D.C. swamp for even longer than Clinton.
Biden’s political career began in 1970 with a council district victory in Delaware and then he moved into the nation’s capital with a surprising U.S. Senate victory in 1972. Sadly, for the American people, and especially for the voters of Delaware, Biden never left.
In this race, Biden is offering an array of promises to the American people, but never accomplished any of them during his long five-decade career. In contrast, President Donald Trump fulfilled his campaign promises to the American people. He is the antithesis of Joe Biden, an outsider who is a man of action. Joe Biden is all talk, no action. What he did accomplish, such as the crime bill of 1994, has had devastating results for the country.
The record shows that Biden and his family have enriched themselves during “public service,” while President Trump and his family have lost billions of dollars during the past four years. While Biden and his family have made millions of dollars in the last four years, Trump is the first President since John F. Kennedy to refuse his salary while in office.
President Trump has donated his salary to worthy government agencies such as the National Park Service, the Veterans Administration, and the Small Business Administration. This selfless act has not received enough attention, but it shows the character of President Trump. He is suffering all this media, Democratic Party and Deep State abuse, for no financial compensation, to strictly benefit the American people.
With ten days before the election, President Trump is behind by 8.1 percent in the Real Clear Politics average of polls. At this point in 2016, Hillary Clinton was only 3.8 percent ahead of Trump. If President Trump finds a way to win again, it will be even more of an upset than it was four years ago.
The odds are so stacked against him, that famed pollster Frank Luntz said, “If the numbers turn out to be wrong. If Donald Trump is right and these pollsters are wrong about this race, then people like me are going to have to find a new profession.”
It would be a tremendous benefit for the nation if these biased pollsters who use flawed methodology, skewed questioning and unfair sampling were wrong and had to vacate their profession. More importantly, the nation needs another four years of Donald Trump as President. The stakes of this election are immense, and the country cannot risk giving the presidency to a compromised, incompetent, and dangerously liberal career politician like Joe Biden.
For the benefit of our country, it is imperative that the American people prove the so-called experts wrong again. It would be a wonderful déjà vu for the United States of America. The alternative is both alarming and perilous and would be a nightmare for the country.
In this election, the contrast is stark, and the implications are massive. This incredibly important choice rests in the hands of the American people. Let us pray they make the only rational decision, the re-election of President Donald Trump.