Area briefs for July 8, 2008
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BR flights halted after plane damage
Two flights from Baton Rouge to Atlanta were canceled Monday when three Canadair Regional jets were damaged during routine maintenance at the Atlantic Southeast Airlines hangar near Metro Airport.
Kristen Loughman, an Atlantic Southeast Airlines spokeswoman, would not release details on the extent of damage the aircrafts sustained or how the damage occurred. But, she said, no one was injured during the incident and no passengers were on the jets at the time.
“At this time, we have our safety and security team down there investigating,” Loughman said in a telephone interview from her Atlanta office.
Metro Airport spokesman Ronnie Pickard said the airport’s rescue firefighters team was called at 1:50 a.m. to “an aircraft in distress.” The call was canceled 10 minutes later.
One of the aircraft is a 50-seat jet and the other is a 70-seat jet, Pickard said. Information about the third jet was not available Monday.
Ex-route carrier pleads in fraud case
Michael A. Goza, a former contract route carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in St. Francisville, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
Goza, a 37-year-old Baton Rouge resident, is one of three defendants accused of conspiring to cash more than $3,400 in checks stolen from the mail system.
A Baker woman, 25-year-old L’Desha D. Anderson, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy in the same case last week.
A third defendant — 41-year-old Morris Butler Jr. of Baton Rouge — pleaded innocent, but is scheduled for a second arraignment July 15.
Court records show Goza was accused of stealing checks from his mail route and giving them to Anderson and Butler to cash.
Crash victim dies; new count filed
WALKER — State Police booked a Denham Springs man with vehicular homicide in a July 4 crash after a 5-year-old boy died from his injuries Sunday, troopers said Monday.
Joseph Landry, 37, of Denham Springs, had been booked on two counts of first-degree negligent injuring, first-offense driving while intoxicated and careless operation after the crash Friday on La. 447 south of I-12, Trooper Johnnie Brown Jr. said.
Troopers have said Landry’s Ford van rear-ended the Chevrolet Cavalier in which Logan Woodruff, 5, of Denham Springs, was riding with his mother and others as she waited to turn near Harris’ Grocery. Logan’s mother, Emmie Woodruff, 27, of Denham Springs; another juvenile; and a third passenger, Rebecca Creel, 20, of Denham Springs, also were injured in the crash, troopers said.
Landry was not injured and alcohol is suspected as a factor in the crash, troopers said.
Compiled from Advocate and Associated Press reports
Two flights from Baton Rouge to Atlanta were canceled Monday when three Canadair Regional jets were damaged during routine maintenance at the Atlantic Southeast Airlines hangar near Metro Airport.
Kristen Loughman, an Atlantic Southeast Airlines spokeswoman, would not release details on the extent of damage the aircrafts sustained or how the damage occurred. But, she said, no one was injured during the incident and no passengers were on the jets at the time.
“At this time, we have our safety and security team down there investigating,” Loughman said in a telephone interview from her Atlanta office.
Metro Airport spokesman Ronnie Pickard said the airport’s rescue firefighters team was called at 1:50 a.m. to “an aircraft in distress.” The call was canceled 10 minutes later.
One of the aircraft is a 50-seat jet and the other is a 70-seat jet, Pickard said. Information about the third jet was not available Monday.
Ex-route carrier pleads in fraud case
Michael A. Goza, a former contract route carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in St. Francisville, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
Goza, a 37-year-old Baton Rouge resident, is one of three defendants accused of conspiring to cash more than $3,400 in checks stolen from the mail system.
A Baker woman, 25-year-old L’Desha D. Anderson, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy in the same case last week.
A third defendant — 41-year-old Morris Butler Jr. of Baton Rouge — pleaded innocent, but is scheduled for a second arraignment July 15.
Court records show Goza was accused of stealing checks from his mail route and giving them to Anderson and Butler to cash.
Crash victim dies; new count filed
WALKER — State Police booked a Denham Springs man with vehicular homicide in a July 4 crash after a 5-year-old boy died from his injuries Sunday, troopers said Monday.
Joseph Landry, 37, of Denham Springs, had been booked on two counts of first-degree negligent injuring, first-offense driving while intoxicated and careless operation after the crash Friday on La. 447 south of I-12, Trooper Johnnie Brown Jr. said.
Troopers have said Landry’s Ford van rear-ended the Chevrolet Cavalier in which Logan Woodruff, 5, of Denham Springs, was riding with his mother and others as she waited to turn near Harris’ Grocery. Logan’s mother, Emmie Woodruff, 27, of Denham Springs; another juvenile; and a third passenger, Rebecca Creel, 20, of Denham Springs, also were injured in the crash, troopers said.
Landry was not injured and alcohol is suspected as a factor in the crash, troopers said.
Compiled from Advocate and Associated Press reports
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