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September 12, 2018
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September 12, 2018
A Lafourche Parish Councilman was arrested a second time, for violating a protective order.
This, while standing trial in court his week to answer charges of falsifying public records.
Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said Councilman James Bourgeois, Sr., 51, of Raceland, was arrested Tuesday night after he violated a protective order by remaining in a restaurant where fellow Councilman Jerry LaFont was also present and dining.
A protective order since late April has prohibited Bourgeois from coming within 50 yards of LaFont. The sole exception is that they may both be present at the parish council meetings, but they have to use separate entrances.
A judge imposed the protective order after Bourgeois allegedly threatened to kill LaFont, after an April council meeting. Bourgeois was later charged with simple battery.
The councilman’s first violation of the order was in June, when he used the wrong entrance at the council meeting.
In a previous interview, Lafourche Councilmen, Jerry Jones said he had witnessed the entire incident in April.
Jones said he has been a Lafourche Councilman for 24 years and he doesn’t believe anything has ever happened like this, “in the history of Lafourche.”
Meanwhile, Bourgeois is in court this week, to prove that he lives in Lafourche Parish, and not in Metairie.
The Lafourche District Attorney’s office is accusing Bourgeois of living in Jefferson Parish, thus falsifying his address when qualified for office in Dec of 2015.
Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said when Bourgeois was arrested last night, he remained in jail overnight. However, a Lafourche judge ordered him to be released shortly before 7:30 a.m. this morning, so that he could attend court.
