Youngsville’s Special Meeting will not Address Corruption

The City of Youngsville will hold a special meeting on June 26, 2025. That meeting comes just days after we broke the story of the arrest of Carencro Police Officers Zachary Segura and Eric Segura, and what appears to have been a concerted effort to conceal the identities of both. We also covered the obvious preferential treatment Eric Segura received following the incident, which included attempts to have a warrant for his arrest recalled. We are still awaiting responses to several public records requests that have been delayed or withheld. The delays will ensure this topic does not go away anytime soon.

But don’t get excited. The meeting is budgetary and not about acting on the Chief’s favoritism, as the Council pretended to do two years earlier.

On March 30, 2023, the Council called a special meeting to investigate the actions of the then-Youngsville Chief of Police, Rickey Boudreaux. The incident the City Council took issue with at the time was that Boudreaux arrived on the scene of a traffic accident involving former Councilwoman Kayla Reaux and may have influenced the actions of the police officers on the scene.

On the other hand, Chief J.P. Broussard has now allegedly intervened and tried to prevent an officer from taking appropriate, legal, and justified action concerning former Youngsville Police Officer Eric Segura’s alleged criminal wrongdoing. There is a clear double standard. But we don’t have to speculate about what that double standard is. Broussard made sure to inform all of his staff about it.

Broussard is Calling the Shots

On the same day that we submitted a records request and started asking questions about the June 14, 2025, incident involving Segura, Youngsville Chief of Police J.P. Broussard issued a directive to his staff, which reads as follows:

“Dear Team,

Effective immediately, any case involving high-profile individuals – including law enforcement officers, political figures, or dignitaries – must be submitted to the Chief for review prior to presenting the warrant to a judge.

This directive is issued to ensure that all such matters are handled with the highest level of oversight and sensitivity, given their potential implications. Please route all relevant materials to the Chief’s office as early as possible in the process to avoid delays.”

In short, if you are connected, you are protected.

This type of situation prompted Louisiana lawmakers in 2022 to adopt a whistleblower statute, which creates a remedy solely available to law enforcement officers who are disciplined due to reporting malfeasance in office. Louisiana Revised Statue 40:2537 provides:

“No police employee shall be discharged, demoted, suspended, threatened, harassed, or discriminated against in any manner in the terms and conditions of his employment because of any lawful act engaged in by the employee or on behalf of the employee in furtherance of any action taken to report malfeasance in office by police employees to law enforcement, whether such fellow employee is a co-worker, supervisor, or subordinate.”

If you are connected, you are protected.

This is the same double standard that has always existed. It is the culture of corruption we spoke about several years ago, and it is just as prevalent today. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig.

This is just one example, but there are many. The Kayla Reaux incident was not the end of the sort of quid pro quo favors that continue to permeate Youngsville. Nothing has changed, and the beneficiaries remain the same in many instances.

Ricky Boudreaux may no longer hold the position of Chief of Police, but he is still around and in the game. Many took notice when criminal charges pending against him were dropped last year, just before qualifying to run for Chief of Police again. Others, when Rickey Boudreaux’s house was advertised as being put up for Sheriff’s sale later this year. Even more so when Judge Cynthia Spadoni recused herself from the case, citing a “personal friendship” with Boudreaux.

Boudreaux is also the suspect in another matter under investigation by the Youngsville Police Department. An eyewitness allegedly positively identified Boudreaux as the suspect who trespassed and stole property from another Youngsville resident. Despite this, the case file does not reveal any further action has been taken by the Youngsville Police Department. Sound familiar?

Lau-sy Leadership

The same lousy leadership at the department failed to ensure appropriate police action was taken when a criminal complaint was filed with the department concerning false text messages sent to attack Brach Myers’s campaign for Senate. Despite the complaint being filed around the same time as a separate complaint filed with the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office, no action was ever taken by the Youngsville Police Department.

The records indicate that the matter was never assigned for investigation. Instead, the Youngsville Police Department sent the complaint, which did not include any suspect, to the District Attorney for prosecution. Anyone with a brain knows you can’t prosecute an unidentified person. That is why police conduct investigations. But that appears not to apply to certain people. At least not to the elite, the ruling class, contractors for the Department (such as Chun Ping “Eddie” Lau), and now apparently any other “high-profile individuals” the Chief arbitrarily decides to lump in.

Friends with Benefits

Carol “Carrie” Hebert is a known associate of Rickey Boudreaux—not the one who was living at the police station; that was another friend. Hebert was charged with hit-and-run, which occurred around February 5, 2022, and was referred to the Youngsville Mayor’s Court for prosecution.

Hit-and-run is a criminal offense covered under the Louisiana criminal code. Still, the City of Youngsville has incorporated the offense and penalties by virtue of an ordinance making it a municipal violation punishable by the Mayor’s Court. It is debatable whether the Mayor’s Court for the City of Youngsville had the authority to prosecute the offense then.

However, the prescribed penalties under the law and ordinance are not debatable. The law provides “Whoever commits the crime of hit-and-run driving where there is no death or serious bodily injury shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.”

We are awaiting records concerning the prosecution of Hebert to determine what happened with the case. At this time, we know that Hebert was allowed to complete “community service” in contradiction to the law. Additionally, prosecutor Ped Kay has demanded that staff at the Youngsville Police Department close the file, even though they cannot confirm whether the illegal sentence of performing community service hours had ever been fulfilled. Kay allegedly said he is ‘tired of dealing with Ricky Boudreaux.’ Is it any wonder that Kay was the driving force behind prohibiting individuals from bringing cell phones and recording devices into the Mayor’s Court?

Policy and Custom

These are just a few examples highlighting the City of Youngsville’s policies and customs. Again, we don’t have to guess at the policy we all know has existed for years. Chief J.P. Broussard has made it very plain he intends to continue the Rickey Boudreaux policy: Certain individuals are to be treated differently based upon their “status” in the community.

There are real questions about whether this would even pass a constitutional challenge. Chief Broussard has created an arbitrary classification of protected people, which creates discriminatory actions or status-based protection for certain persons. This is likely a violation of the Constitution’s equal protection clause, resulting in increased liability and legal challenges for the City. It is simply unlawful for enforcement decisions to be based on an unjustifiable standard such as race, religion, or other arbitrary class. Furthermore, the policy tends to unduly shield certain individuals from legal scrutiny and will undoubtedly delay or terminate the prosecutions of others.

Ultimately, the names have changed, but the same culture of corruption is in full swing. There is a pervasive culture of looking the other way and protecting certain individuals while ignoring and failing to investigate complaints against others. If the Youngsville Chief of Police isn’t going to allow his officers to enforce the law, he is inviting the residents to take action. I guess we will see how it all turns out.

Yes, we are back in Youngsville. We warned you about stupid decisions, and you’re doing it repeatedly.

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