WINN:
Raymond Howard Moore
July 10, 1955 – August 9, 2022
Service: Saturday, August 13 at 10 am at Southern Funeral Home

Joyce Murlene Walker
April 19, 1945 – August 8, 2022
Service: Saturday, August 13 at 10 am at Southern Funeral Home

NATCHITOCHES:
Kenneth Ray Heard, Sr.
April 10, 1946 – August 10, 2022
Service: Saturday, August 13 at 11 am in the chapel of Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home

Ami Nichole Knotts-Sparks
January 2, 1983 – August 8, 2022
Service: Friday, August 12 at 2 pm at Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home

Velma Jean Turner (Jeannie)
April 9, 1958 – August 8, 2022
Visitation: Tuesday, August 16 from 9-11 am
Funeral Service: Tuesday, August 16 at 11 am
Interment: Nativity Catholic Church in Campti, LA

Bertha Roberson
July 1, 1957 – August 7, 2022
Final care arrangements for Mrs. Roberson include a wake service Friday evening, August 12 from 6-8 pm at Winnfield Funeral Home in Natchitoches. On Saturday morning, August 13, family and friends will meet at Lawrence Serenity Sanctum for a 9:30 a.m. graveside service. The Rev. Rodney Irchirl will officiate.

SABINE:
James L. Carter Sr.
May 31, 1940 – August 6, 2022
Service: Friday, August 12 at 10 am at Sardis Cemetery in Atlanta

Open houses are a great way to learn about the upcoming school year, meet teachers, order spirit shirts, and learn about clubs and opportunities. Some schools will have door prizes and refreshments.

The following schools will host their Open Houses on Thursday, August 11th.

Winnfield Primary School Open House 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM.

Winnfield Middle School Open House 5:15 PM – 6 PM.

Winnfield Senior High School Open House 6 PM – 7 PM.

Atlanta High School Open House 6 PM

Calvin High School and Dodson High School will host their Open Houses on Monday, August 15th.

Calvin High School Open House 6 PM – 7 PM

Dodson High School Open House 5:30 PM

The City of Winnfield will host a Town Hall Meeting Thursday, August 11th at 5:30 PM at the Allen Building located at 104 W. Main Street.

The guest speaker is a representative from LEPA/Louisiana Energy & Power Authority.

The Louisiana Energy and Power Authority (LEPA), created by the State Legislature in 1979, consists of 19 Louisiana cities and towns, each maintaining its own independent municipal power system.

LEPA is a joint-action agency working to provide its member communities with firm, stable sources of electricity at the lowest possible cost.

Since 1989, LEPA has entered into all-requirements power contracts with many of its members and has implemented a system operation through the use of a sophisticated, computerized Energy Control Center. Located in Lafayette, the Center dispatches electricity to all participating member cities simultaneously on the most cost-effective basis.

Through optional participation in the system operation, each LEPA member city can realize reduced power costs while maintaining its own municipal system. This type of joint-action arrangement among municipalities has proven to be the best approach for cities in Louisiana and other states.

WHEN WILL I SEE MY CHILD’S BENEFITS?

Most students who are eligible for Summer P-EBT have not received benefits yet. Those benefits will be made available in the fall. DCFS expects to have an updated issuance schedule in September. Please be patient. We will provide more information as soon as it is available.

Until then, DCFS is preparing its P-EBT benefits submission system to accept information from schools about the students who were in school in May and receiving free or reduced-price meals. Schools will begin submitting information in late August.

There is nothing more DCFS, schools or districts can tell you about the P-EBT issuance schedule.
For more information about Summer P-EBT eligibility and more Frequently Asked Questions, visit https://www.dcfs.louisiana.gov/page/pebt-summer-2021.

For information about your child’s P-EBT case, to request a card or communicate with your child’s school about your child’s case, visit the P-EBT Parent Portal at http://www.dcfs.louisiana.gov/pebt-parent-portal.

WHAT IF I NEED A NEW CARD?

If the card has been lost, stolen, or damaged, a new one can be requested through the P-EBT Parent Portal, by calling the EBT customer service line at 1-888-997-1117, or through the LifeInCheck mobile app.

Get more details at pebt-la.org.

Date: 8-4-2022
Name: Brennen L Stiles
Address: Campti, LA
Race: White
Sex: Male
Age: 26
Charge: Failure to appear, Fugitive of Red River Parish

Date: 8-5-2022
Name: Lydia N Williams
Address: Winnfield, LA
Race: White
Sex: Female
Age: 29
Charge: Failure to appear (x2)

Date: 8-6-2022
Name: Jerry W Sepulvado
Address: Winnfield, LA
Race: White
Sex: Male
Age: 54
Charge: Open container, Driving while intoxicated

Date: 8-8-2022
Name: Chandler Jordan
Address: Winnfield, LA
Race: White
Sex: Male
Age: 25
Charge: Aggrieved battery, Cruelty to a person with infirmities, Resisting an officer

This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named or shown in photographs or video as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

By: Brad Dison

Bess was the queen of Hollywood. She was born in Sherman, Texas in 1898. After high school, she attended the Oklahoma College for Women in Chickasha where she often performed on stage. In 1916, she played dual parts or characters in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and another in the “Merchant of Venice.” As this production was staged by a women’s college, all of the parts, male and female, were performed by females. All of the characters Bess portrayed were men, which is a testament to her talent.

Within a few years, Bess made her way to Hollywood where she appeared in her first film, a 1923 silent comedy film entitled “Hollywood.” Her talents were such that she made two more feature films in her first year in the business. Within three years, Bess became the go-to-girl in Hollywood. In addition to her other acting abilities, Bess began to get acting jobs because of her beautiful hands. She had what the First National Productions studios claimed were the most photographed hands in the world. One reporter boasted, “Her hands are her fortune, sir!” When a movie studio needed a closeup of a beautiful feminine hand, Bess was the actress they would call first. Many leading actresses of the time, according to one reporter, “ofttimes subject themselves to exposure and their hands in many cases suffer from the elements. Consequently, when a close-up of the hands is to be made, they are in many cases unable to offer their own hands due to the fact that they have not been properly cared for and ‘groomed,’ as it were, for the particular occasion.”

Bess, on the other hand, (pun intended) kept her hands properly groomed. She kept to a strict set of rules for the care of her hands. When out in public, Bess always wore thin silk gloves to protect her hands. Every night, she rubbed her hands thoroughly with the skin of a lemon followed by a special cream concocted by a film studio master make-up artist just for her. She allowed her fingernails to grow abnormally long so they could be easily manicured to fit within the film’s script.

As many actor’s and actress’s careers floundered with the transition of the movie industry from silent pictures to “talkie” pictures, Bess remained busy. In 1935, parts of Bess appeared in “Star of Midnight,” which starred William Powell and Ginger Rogers. Bess’s character is pivotal in the film because the plot hinges on her character’s disappearance. In the film, the audience glimpses her ankles as she enters a taxicab, she waves from the taxi’s window, and speaks a few lines, but no more is seen of her. Her presence in other films varied between a quick view of her waving hand to her speaking a few lines. If you watch a film from the 1920s through the 1960s, you will most likely see all or part of Bess, though you may not realize it.

Although Bess had a lucrative Hollywood career for more than four decades, she thought she was no good at acting. However, Bess became the most prolific actress in the history of motion pictures. She appeared in over 700 films, more than any other actor or actress. She appeared in five films which won Academy Awards for Best Picture, more than any other actor or actress. Those films include “It Happened One Night” (1934), “You Can’t Take It with You” (1938), “All About Eve” (1950), “The Greatest Show on Earth” (1952), and “Around the World in 80 Days” (1956). She also appeared in twenty other films which were nominated for Best Picture, more than any other actor or actress. It is doubtful that you will have ever heard the name Bess Flowers, but due to Bess’s parts, she became and remains the “Queen of the Hollywood Extras.”

Sources:
1. The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Oklahoma), April 20, 1916, p.1.
2. The Minneapolis Star, March 6, 1926, p.23.
3. Palladium-Item (Richmond, Indiana), July 23, 1927, p.13.
4. The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey), March 12, 1935, p.23.

We couldn’t afford a bicycle then, so I learned early how to stick my thumb out in the wind and hitch a ride in a pickup or on a tractor the two miles into our rural Carolina town for my first-grade classes. 

My parents believed in tough love. 

They were Old School, even though I was the very definition of New School. 

Since they had to walk to school uphill 16 miles and back home, again uphill, for 17, they figured I was getting off easy by having to flag down a ride for just two measly miles. “And FLAT miles at that!” I can hear them say, maybe tough lovingly. 

Of course, modern kids have gotten soft now and don’t hitchhike to school as they once did. Don’t get me started. . . 

Here’s something else that’s changed, and not for the better. 

No matter how “bored” or out of sorts you might have gotten with school back then — and even those of us who actually secretly sort of liked school and realized it was “good for us” wanted to run away now and then – we knew the Start Game and the End Game. And that helped. 

The Great State of South Carolina and all us little children there cut a deal with each other: the state owned us from right after Labor Day until Memorial Day. No questions asked. You’d get a day at Thanksgiving and Easter and a few days at Christmastime, the Super Bowl Week of being a kid, but the rest of the time, your denim-covered butt was in a desk at Lake View Elementary. 

BUT … they could not touch us from Memorial Day until Labor Day. No one even SAID “school” during June, July and August. We were a hands-off, school-free zone. 

Summer, with all its bee stings and scraped knees and bologna sandwiches, was ours. 

We could play AND we could make all the money, picking cucumbers or driving a tractor or, depending on how low you were to the ground, picking up tobacco sticks at the barn if your leg wasn’t long enough to reach the clutch on a Farmall yet. 

Just thinking about it makes me want to kick off my shoes and go run in the grass and step on a nail and have to go get a tetanus shot. (Even summer had its risks. But the risks were worth it.) 

Somewhere along the way, it was decided by Grownups that school would start Early, and so children are back at school this week even though it’s just now double-digits in August. (We’re talking dates, not temperature.) There will be “breaks” and the number of days spent in class will be the same now as they were back when I went to school, back when only four vowels and 22 consonants had been invented. 

And maybe it’s better that way, but you ask people from our generation, and we’ll tell you being out for three months solid was the way to go, that even the thought of hitching a ride to school in August was a two-thumbs-down deal.  

Contact Teddy at teddy@latech.edu 

Having worked as a staffer on Capitol Hill for a number of years, I know from experience that cynical members of Congress will often disguise the true content of legislation through the use of a legislative title that is misleading at best and a patent lie at worst.  

As George Orwell wrote in 1984, this is the doublespeak of the Thought Police who insist that “War is peace.  Freedom is slavery.  Ignorance is strength.”  The goal is to deploy a compliant, dishonest media to repeat the title of the legislation ad nauseam until the lie is embedded in the news fabric and the truth is hidden from the people.   As the propaganda minister for the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party, Joseph Goebbels noted, “if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth.”

The distressing news this week from the U.S. Capitol is the Manchin-Schumer legislation, deceptively titled the ‘Inflation Reduction Act,’ which just passed the Senate on a party line tie vote broken by VP Kamala Harris. The truthful title would be “The Inflation-Recession Act.” 

At a time when inflation is burning up an average $6,800 from two worker families, the so-called Inflation Reduction Act would impose punitive tax increases, deepen the recession, savage household income, and accelerate price increases.

According to the Senate’s Joint Committee on Taxation, “taxes will increase by $16.7 billion on American taxpayers earning less than $200,000,” proving “that the Biden pledge to not raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000 is shattered.”

To summarize, this 725-page bill—laden as it is with union and Green Pork—strongly favors unions and specific projects in certain, often blue, states.

 Let’s remember this plan has been sold to Americans as a way to combat the surging inflation created by the very people who are now championing this plan.

However, because the spending provisions kick in sooner (they always do with tax-and-spend bills) than the revenue-raising provisions this bill will actually increase the deficit in the first few years and—if it ever actually does—only begin to reduce the deficit in 2027 according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model.

How’s that going to address our crushing current inflation if there will be no effect on inflation for 5 years?

It won’t, of course, because that was never really the plan to begin with.  What the Left is really trying to do is re-engineer the U.S. economy with another huge expansion of government.   In fact, that’s one of the things that is so acutely disappointing about what Senator Joe Manchin is doing with this bill. 

Recall that over the last year and a half Sen. Manchin (along with Senator Kyrsten Sinema) was instrumental in blocking the $5 trillion Build Back Better plan which would have been an unprecedented expansion of government.  However, this so-called “skinny” version also won’t shrink the deficit and will constitute an enormous entitlement expansion that already struggling American taxpayers, directly or indirectly, will pay for.

And for what reason purportedly? Because of so-called “Climate Change.”  All of these Green New Deal efforts by the federal government to reduce carbon emissions will have virtually no effect on the temperature of the planet.  In fact, the impact on CO2 and temperature is “miniscule” according to Princeton’s Jose’ Luis Cruz ‘Alvarez and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg.  Further, the National Academy of Sciences stated in 2013 regarding these episodes of huge federal spending on climate issues that they are a “poor tool for reducing greenhouse gases and achieving climate change objectives.”  

This worldwide “climate” alarm is based upon the fact that the world has warmed by 1.1 degree Celsius since the late 1800s and even that is based upon multiple factors.

Unfortunately, none of that matters to the Climate Change Religionists, many of whom are profiting enormously on this Kill Fossil Fuel—Promote Renewables con job. 

America is technologically decades away from being entirely free of fossil fuels and in a place where we may conceivably rely solely on renewable energy to sustain us.  But today, Americans are far more concerned about high gas and food prices which this kind of federal debt spending and worsening inflation will only make worse.

This dishonestly named legislation will result in both a policy failure and tax increase on all Americans and especially hard-working Americans already devastated by the enormous Biden-Democrat inflation tax.

The midterm elections can’t come soon enough so that Americans can change the dangerous trajectory America is now on.

Pictured above: Royal Alexander is an attorney, writer, and former politician in his native Shreveport, Louisiana. In 2007, he was the Republican candidate for Louisiana Attorney General. In addition to his law practice, Alexander is an opinion writer, a guest lecturer at public events and education forums, and a frequent guest on various TV and radio outlets.

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NATCHITOCHES:
Ami Nichole Knotts-Sparks
January 2, 1983 – August 8, 2022
Service: Friday, August 12 at 2 pm at Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home

Velma Jean Turner (Jeannie)
April 9, 1958 – August 8, 2022
Visitation: Tuesday, August 16 from 9-11 am
Funeral Service: Tuesday, August 16 at 11 am
Interment: Nativity Catholic Church in Campti, LA

Bertha Roberson
July 1, 1957 – August 7, 2022
Final care arrangements for Mrs. Roberson include a wake service Friday evening, August 12 from 6-8 pm at Winnfield Funeral Home in Natchitoches. On Saturday morning, August 13, family and friends will meet at Lawrence Serenity Sanctum for a 9:30 a.m. graveside service. The Rev. Rodney Irchirl will officiate.

SABINE:
Margaret Virginia Stovall Oosta ofShreveport, Louisiana
June 21, 1933 – August 5, 2022
Visitation: Thursday, August 18 from 9010 am will be at First Baptist Church in Many
Service: Thursday, August 18 at 10 am at First Baptist Church in Many
Interment: Northwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery in Keithville.

Delories Wright
June 29, 1941 – August 6, 2022
Service: Wednesday, August 10 at 10 am at Warren Meadows Funeral Home Chapel

James L. Carter Sr.
May 31, 1940 – August 6, 2022
Service: Friday, August 12 at 10 am at Sardis Cemetery in Atlanta

Miranda Atkins, a registered dental hygienist, spoke to the Kiwanis club, July 26, 2022. She has been practicing dental hygiene for 15 years. Miranda educated the group on the importance of practicing good oral hygiene. Your mouth is the gateway to your body and prevention is the key were her main focal points. She also refuted common myths about dental hygiene as well as entertained the group with fun facts about dentistry. Miranda works in the office of Dr. Bill Gaddis of Winnfield.

One of the most tiresome things that a single or divorced person hears entirely too often is, “Why aren’t you dating anyone?” or “Who are you dating?”.

Albeit, I am just as guilty. Or nosey. I am always asking my single friends “who, what, and why”. It is just human nature to think that one should not be alone. My famous answers to all of these questions are “I am dating my children” or “I don’t know, it is all in God’s hands.”

My closest friends do not even ask anymore. They just know that I am waiting on the Lord. They also know that my daughters keep me so busy during the extra minutes of the day that are not dedicated to work. This doesn’t mean that I do not enjoy all of the jokes that come along with being divorced and alone. Just recently a single coworker and I had a great time laughing at all of the folly that comes along with online dating. We both agreed that we believe that no one tells the truth online but it is pure entertainment to discuss.

We have all seen the online dating profiles that have us laughing with side-splitting pain. We jokingly recalled the time that she spent many hours perusing FarmersOnly.com. We laughed way too hard as we remembered all of the funny photos and descriptions. We then moved our humor to ChristianMingle.com and the older we get we talk about OurTime.com. Just this past week my coworker told me she has given up on all of the datings, looking, wishing, wondering, and dreaming. She said she is now waiting on LordsTime.com. (This is fictitious)

We both chuckled and I couldn’t help but acknowledge that is what we all should be doing. Wait on the Lord’s timing and not our own.

Wouldn’t life be exquisitely simplistic and reassuring if we could merely visit a website and research the plans the Lord has for us? In my eyes, it would be a website that you never get locked out of or have to change your password. No one could hack into it and the information was always up to date with whatever crisis that may come our way. The page would be an easy-to-read format with a short list of colorful tabs as the headers. “Click here to see the Lord’s timing for…. you fill in the blank.”

Seems like it would provide instant peace but it would also be extremely boring. Whatever you are waiting on the Lord for, keep waiting. When you are tired of waiting, wait some more.

If we had all of the answers to our life’s questions at our fingertips there would be very little room left for trusting and obeying. There would be no reason to keep believing in his goodness, his will, or really even his love for us. Above all, it would cut out the glorious journey. Every day that we get to wake up, breathe, and spend time in the word and work for him is a blessing in itself. If we focus on doing his work and serving others then everything else will fall into place when it is truly the Lord’s timing.

“He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.” – Ecclesiastes 3:11

PRESS RELEASE

 District Attorney Chris Nevils reports the following action was taken in Eighth Judicial District Court on June 14, 2022

MATTHEW SCOTT PARKER: Defendant entered guilty plea no drivers license on person. Defendant sentenced to thirty days, credit for time served, sentence concurrent. 

ELIZABETH A. BOX: Defendant entered guilty plea DWI first offense. Defendant sentenced to serve six months in Winn Parish Jail.  Execution of sentence suspended, defendant sentenced to serve two days, credit for time served.  Defendant placed on twenty-four months supervised probation. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost, fee to Office of Public Defender and probation fee. Defendant ordered to satisfactorily complete court approved substance and drug abuse and driver improvement programs.

WILLIAM GREG CARPENTER: Defendant entered guilty plea livestock at large on highways unlawful. Imposition of sentence suspended, defendant placed on two years unsupervised probation. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost, probation fee and restitution and forfeit horses. 

DEIONDRE CORTEZ HALL: Defendant entered guilty plea resisting an officer. Imposition of sentence suspended. Defendant placed on two years unsupervised probation. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost and probation fee. 

MORGAN JOHN KING: Defendant entered guilty plea operating a vehicle while license suspended/revoked/cancelled and ignition inter-lock device offense. Imposition of sentence suspended. Defendant placed on two years unsupervised probation. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost and probation fee. 

REMINGTON HUNTER PEROT: Defendant entered guilty plea operating a vehicle while intoxicated first offense. Imposition of sentence suspended. Defendant placed on twenty-four months supervised probation. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost and probation fee. Defendant ordered to perform sixteen hours community service and satisfactorily complete drug and substance and driver improvement programs. 

EVERETT J. WALDRUP: Defendant entered guilty plea operating a vehicle while intoxicated first offense. Imposition of sentence deferred. Defendant placed on twenty-four months supervised probation. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost , fee to Office of Public Defender and probation fee. Defendant ordered to perform sixteen hours community service and satisfactorily complete drug and substance and driver improvement programs. 

 XAVIER DANDRE WYATT: Defendant present for revocation on charge of stalking. Defendant revoked his probation and ordered to serve balance of sentence to be executed and served. Defendant entered guilty plea violation of protective order. Imposition of sentence suspended, placed on two years unsupervised probation, ordered pay fine and probation fee and have no contact with victim.

DEMARCUS J. POWELL: Defendant entered guilty plea speeding. Imposition of sentence suspended. Defendant placed on two years unsupervised probation, ordered to pay fine, court cost and probation fee. 

District Attorney Chris Nevils reports the following action was taken in Eighth Judicial District Court on June 15, 2022

JUSTEN ODALE CARPENTER: Defendant entered guilty plea attempted possession of firearm by a person convicted of certain felonies and attempted illegal carrying of weapon-use/possession/control/crime of violence/CDS. On the first charge defendant sentenced to serve 7.5 years at hard labor in custody of Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, credit for time served. On the second charge defendant ordered to serve five years consecutive to previous charge in custody of Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. 

VERNON DEWAYNE HAYES: Defendant entered guilty plea failure to register and notify as a sex offender or child predator. Defendant sentenced to serve six months at hard labor, sentence consecutive. 

ALONZO RAMON JEWITT: Defendant entered guilty plea possession of a Schedule I CDS. Imposition of sentence suspended, defendant placed on two years unsupervised probation. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost, probation fee and fee to Office of Public Defender. 

District Attorney Chris Nevils reports the following action was taken in Eighth Judicial District Court on June 16, 2022

MICHAEL BRETT KEIFFER: Defendant entered guilty plea attempted possession of a firearm. Defendant ordered to serve five years hard labor with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Execution of five years suspended, defendant placed on three years supervised probation with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost, fee to Office of Public Defender and monthly supervision fee. Defendant ordered to perform fifty hours community service and satisfactorily complete court approved drug and substance abuse program. 

 JERADE REED SANDERS: Defendant entered guilty plea violation of protective order, possession of drug paraphernalia first offense, attempted possession of firearm or carrying concealed weapon by a person convicted of certain felonies and violation of protective order. On the first charge defendant ordered to serve six months. On the second charge defendant ordered to serve fifteen days. On the third charge defendant ordered to serve one year hard labor with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections.  On the fourth charge defendant ordered to serve six months without hard labor in custody of Winn Parish Sheriff. Sentences run consecutive. 

DAJUAN ANTIONE SLAUGHTER: Defendant entered guilty plea possession of a Schedule IV CDS. Defendant sentenced to serve five years hard labor with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, credit for time served.

BRYAN FLETCHER THOMPSON: Defendant entered guilty plea aggravated battery. Defendant sentenced to serve 596 days without hard labor at Winn Parish Department of Corrections, credit for time served. 

ADRIAN LESHA CARTER: Defendant entered guilty plea theft. Defendant sentenced to serve five years hard labor with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections.  Execution of five years suspended, defendant placed on three years supervised probation with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost, restitution, fee to Office of Public Defender and monthly supervision fee. Defendant ordered to perform fifty hours community service. 

DONNIE WAYNE FOLDEN: Defendant entered guilty plea resisting an officer with force or violence. Defendant ordered to serve two years hard labor with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, credit for time served. 

KEVIN LAMONT McDONALD: Defendant entered guilty plea possession of firearm or carrying concealed weapon by a person convicted of certain felonies. Defendant ordered to serve twenty years hard labor with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. fifteen years suspended, credit for time served. Upon completion of serving sentence, defendant ordered placed on three years supervised probation with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections and pay fine, court cost and monthly supervision fee.  

MARK ANTHONY SERPAS, JR.: Defendant entered guilty plea misdemeanor theft. Defendant ordered to serve six months in custody of Winn Parish Sheriff’s Office, credit for time served. 

JALEXCIA K. SMITH: Defendant entered guilty plea simple battery. Imposition of sentence deferred and defendant placed on two years unsupervised probation. Defendant ordered to pay fine and probation fee, court cost and probation fee waived. 

 EDWARD DEWAYNE POWELL:  Defendant entered guilty plea attempted possession of or dealing in firearms with obliterated numbers or marks.  Defendant sentenced to serve  one and one-half years without hard labor credit for time served, forfeit guns. 

District Attorney Chris Nevils reports the following action was taken in Eighth Judicial District Court on  July 12, 2022

GARY DELANE COLEMAN: Defendant entered guilty plea reckless operation of a vehicle first offense. Imposition of sentence suspended, defendant placed on two years unsupervised probation. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost and probation fee. 

ROBERT ALEXANDER COONCE: Defendant entered guilty plea to speeding. Imposition of sentence suspended, defendant placed on two years unsupervised probation. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost and probation fee. 

RONNIE JOSEPH DAVID: Defendant entered guilty plea theft of $1,000.00 or more but less than $5,000.00. Defendant ordered to serve three years hard labor Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Execution of three years jail sentence suspended.  Defendant placed on three years supervised probation Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost, restitution, fee to Office of Public Defender and monthly supervision fee and perform fifty hours community service. 

BRIAN PATRICK GOODLING: Defendant entered guilty plea criminal mischief.  Imposition of sentence suspended and defendant placed on two years probation, ordered to pay fine, court cost, restitution, fee to Office of Public Defender and probation fee.

PLACID CHIDOZIE NWOKORIE, JR.: Defendant entered guilty plea no drivers license on person. Imposition of sentence suspended and defendant placed on two years probation, ordered to pay fine and probation fee. 

CHINNA LANE THOMPSON: Defendant entered guilty plea DWI first offense. Imposition of sentence suspended and defendant placed on two years supervised probation.  Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost, probation fee and fee to Office of Public Defender. Defendant ordered to perform sixteen hours community service and complete court approved drug and substance abuse and driver improvement programs. 

MARK S. MACHEN: Defendant entered no contest plea to failure to yield right of way with accident. Imposition of sentence suspended and defendant placed on two years unsupervised probation. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost and probation fee. 

District Attorney Chris Nevils reports the following action was taken in Eighth Judicial District Court on July 13, 2022

JARAEL L. HUDSON: Defendant entered guilty plea second degree battery. Defendant sentenced to serve eighteen months hard labor in custody of Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. 

GENE VARNELL JONES, JR.: Defendant entered no contest plea to introducing or possessing contraband in any municipal or parish prison or jail. Defendant sentenced to serve one year hard labor Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, sentence consecutive. 

JASON ALLEN FORTUNE: Defendant entered guilty plea DWI first offense and attempted possession of firearm or carrying concealed weapon by a person convicted of certain felonies. On the first charge defendant sentenced to serve six months without hard labor, credit for time served. On the second charge defendant sentenced to serve 7 ½ years hard labor with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. 

DESHAUN V. SPIVEY: Defendant entered guilty plea to forgery. Defendant sentenced to serve three years hard labor with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, sentence consecutive.

District Attorney Chris Nevils reports the following action was taken in Eighth Judicial District Court on July 14, 2022

AVERY BROWN: Defendant entered guilty plea attempted simple escape. Defendant sentenced to serve one year hard labor Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, sentence consecutive.

District Attorney Chris Nevils reports the following action was taken in Eighth Judicial District Court on July 15, 2022

KATHERINE MARIE BISHOP: Defendant entered guilty plea to possession of a SCH III controlled dangerous substance. Imposition of sentence deferred and placed on two years supervised probation Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost, fee to Office of Public Defender, monthly supervision fee and special CDS offense fee. Defendant ordered to perform fifty hours community service and satisfactorily complete court approved drug and substance program. 

BEN MARENCO: Defendant entered guilty plea to introducing or possessing contraband in any municipal or parish prison or jail. Defendant sentenced to serve five years hard labor Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, sentence consecutive. 

RYAN T. MORGAN: Defendant entered guilty plea battery of a pregnant dating partner. Defendant sentenced to serve one year hard labor custody of Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, credit for time served.

AARON MOORE POISSO: Defendant entered guilty plea to criminal mischief. Imposition of sentence suspended. Defendant placed on two years unsupervised probation, ordered to pay fine, court costs, fee to Office of Public Defender, restitution and probation fee.

JEREMY PAUL COLLINS: Defendant entered guilty plea obstruction of court orders. Defendant sentenced to serve one year hard labor in custody of Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, sentence consecutive.

LANDON SEAN HARDEN: Defendant entered guilty plea to operation a vehicle while intoxicated second offense. Defendant sentenced to serve six months without hard labor, credit for time served.

CODY R. SWEAT: Defendant entered guilty plea possession of SCH II controlled dangerous substance. Defendant sentenced to serve two years hard labor with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Execution of two years suspended and defendant placed on three years supervised probation with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost, fee to Office of Public Defender, monthly supervision fee and special CDS offense fee. Defendant ordered to perform fifty hours community service and satisfactorily complete court approved drug and substance abuse program.

SUMMER NICOLE VINES: Defendant entered guilty plea to misdemeanor theft. Imposition of sentence suspended and defendant placed on two year probation. Defendant ordered to pay fine, court cost, fee to Office of Public Defender, restitution and probation fee.

District Attorney Chris Nevils reports the following action was taken in Eighth Judicial District Court on July 18, 2022

JOHN DAVID PROCELL: Defendant entered guilty plea to possession of a SCH III controlled dangerous substance. Defendant sentenced to serve two years hard labor Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, credit for time served.

TAIWANDRIC LATREZ RUSSELL: Defendant entered guilty plea to unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling. Defendant sentenced to serve three years hard labor with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, credit for time served. 

MARSHEL DANIEL SPIRES, JR.: Defendant entered guilty plea to possession of a SCH II controlled dangerous substance. Defendant sentenced to serve one year hard labor with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, credit for time served. 

JUSTIN W. BEDGOOD: Defendant entered guilty plea to possession of a SCH II controlled dangerous substance. Defendant sentenced to serve one year hard labor with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, credit for time served. 

JOHN FLOYD BLAKE: Defendant entered guilty plea to simple battery. Defendant sentenced to serve six months without hard labor, sentence consecutive. 

KEENEN S. CRAVENS: Defendant entered guilty plea to attempted possession of firearm or carrying concealed weapon by a person convicted of certain felonies. Defendant sentenced to serve six years hard labor with Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, credit for time served.