Badeaux sent to state prison from local jail

A Jeanerette man convicted in a high-speed fatal crash in Lafayette has been transferred to a state prison after a brief stay in the Iberia Parish Jail.

Brad Badeaux, 24, was transferred Monday to Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Sheriff Sid Hebert said Thursday. Badeaux spent about two weeks in the Iberia Parish Jail after being transferred from Lafayette.

Badeaux was sentenced to a year in prison Jan. 15 in connection with a 2006 crash on Ambassador Caffery Parkway that claimed the life of a Lafayette woman and her 16-year-old daughter.

He was booked into the Lafayette Parish Jail, but later transferred to New Iberia at the request of the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Hebert said Badeaux’s father contacted him last year and requested that he be allowed to serve his time in Iberia Parish. He said the request was intended to make it easier for family members to visit Badeaux in jail.

Hebert said the transfer was not influenced by the employment of Badeaux’s mother, Tina Ardoin, who works as a dispatcher for the sheriff’s office. He said such transfers are commonplace in Iberia Parish and neighboring parishes.

Hebert said Badeaux was transferred to Elayn Hunt Correctional Center at the request of the state Department of Corrections.

Hunt is a maximum security prison that also serves as an intake center for state prisoners.