LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Lafayette Parish officials involved in the 2022 removal of a spoil bank on the Vermilion River in St. Martin Parish will not be charged with crimes, according to a report in the Acadiana Advocate.
The Louisiana Legislative Auditor released an audit in August 2025 that alleged the decision by the Josh Guillory administration to secretly remove spoil banks in St. Martin Parish in February 2022 was against local, state and federal law.
According to the report, the 15th Judicial District Attorney’s Office under Don Landry, “declines to pursue any criminal prosecution of any public officials or public employees of Lafayette Consolidated Government” over the findings in the audit…