– St. Martin Parish officials expressed disappointment after learning that former Lafayette Parish officials including Mayor-President Josh Guillory will face no criminal charges from the District Attorney’s office for the 15th Judicial District for their role in removing a spoil bank in St. Martin Parish and taking the dirt directly across the Vermilion River to build a nine-foot levee on the Lafayette Parish banks of the river in 2022.
First Assistant District Attorney Frederick Welter wrote in a letter to the Louisiana Legislative Auditor dated Feb. 9 that 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 of an investigative report by the legislative auditor dated Aug. 13, 2025.
That legislative auditor’s report led to allegations of malfeasance and public bid law violations related to the 2022 removal of a spoil bank in St. Martin Parish.
