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The Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested a man from Lake Charles and charged him with three counts of home improvement fraud.
According to the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s website, Brent Dugas, 48, was initially arrested on July 17 and charged with two counts of home improvement fraud.
Then, on July 26, he was arrested again on the same charge.
As of Monday, Dugas was still in the parish jail.

According to Sheriff Eddie Langlinais, on July 20, 2024, at approximately 1:50 a.m., the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division, during active patrolling, heard and then responded to the area of Louisiana Highway 82, just north of McDonald’s in Abbeville, in reference to multiple gunshots.
Upon arrival in the area, no one was found outside, and no one had reported any shootings or injuries. Deputies maintained additional patrol following the shooting, but no calls were received from citizens.

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s College of Engineering broke ground Tuesday for its new Engineering Student-Centered Collaborative Building. Once completed, the nearly 65,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility will be home to the newly established Engineering Center of Excellence, or ECoE.
Designed to foster teamwork, creativity and student success, the building and accompanying ECoE “are significant milestones in our commitment to reimagining and advancing engineering education, research and workforce development,” said Dr. Joseph Savoie, UL Lafayette president.