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Morgan City police say they arrested a man Tuesday on a charge of possessing drugs destined for sale. The man also faces a gun charge.

Stephen Cortez, 55, Second Street, Morgan City, was arrested at 12:39 p.m. Tuesday on charges of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of a firearm in the presence of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and violation of uniform controlled dangerous substance law (drug-free zone).

The Morgan City Police Department Narcotics Division began an investigation into the illicit sales of narcotics from a residence in the area of Second Street. Cortez was identified as the suspect in the investigation, police said.

On Tuesday, investigators with the Morgan City Police Department along with the St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office, executed a search warrant on the residence. According to reports, a search produced suspected methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and suspected marijuana, police said.

A firearm was also located.

Investigators uncovered evidence that illicit narcotics were destined for sale, according to police.

The residence was located within a drug-free zone. Cortez was arrested and transported to the Morgan City Jail, where he now awaits court proceedings.

DEAR ABBY: I have been married for 42 years. Three months ago, I started seeing changes in my husband’s behavior. He had lost two good friends within two months, so I attributed it to that.
Then one day, he asked me to look up something on his phone and that’s when I saw text messages between him and a girl named “Ginger” who works for him, inviting her to come to the shop every night to have a beer. Of course she never said no. She also would text him looking for him if he couldn’t make it, telling him she would miss him.
My husband is 60; Ginger is 30. He also tells me he also has a woman friend (also 30) who works at a local business. He has confided personal family business to her that I know she has shared with other people.
I’m at a loss. I’m retired but I’m always ready to go and do anything with him. I have supper ready when he gets home after spending an extra hour with Ginger every night. What can I do to bring my husband home to me? I take care of myself, always look my best and listen when he talks.
WHAT TO DO IN THE EAST
DEAR WHAT TO DO: This may have nothing to do with you and everything to do with your husband’s fear of his own mortality. In light of the fact that he has just lost two close friends in the last three months, he may find the company of these young women to be a distraction.
That said, what he’s doing is disrespectful to you and possibly a threat to your marriage. Have you discussed how this has made you feel? If you haven’t, you should. You appear to be trying your best to do your part, but you can’t fix this alone. It may be time for you to start concentrating less on what pleases him and more on what is good for you. And while you’re at it, begin monitoring his/your financial records to see if there have been any “out of the ordinary” expenditures. If there have been, it may be time to consult a lawyer.

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been married for 30 years but have never really been happy with each other. For years I have had painful skin infections on my face, which have required trips to multiple dermatologists. They have done biopsies, and they still can’t pinpoint the cause of my skin problems.
Recently, because one of my infections was spreading to my sinus cavity and my eye, I moved out of the master bedroom into one of the kids’ old rooms. My skin is clearing up now, and I’m pain-free.
I always suspected that my husband might have had something to do with this, plus I found a book he had about wild mushrooms. In it, he had underlined a part that said mushrooms are parasitic. What do you think, Abby?
SUSPICIOUS IN FLORIDA

DEAR SUSPICIOUS: I think you should discuss this with the doctors who have been trying to diagnose the cause of your repeated infections. If you are correct in your suspicions, you should talk to the police because your husband may be guilty of assault with intent to harm you. This may be your chance to end your long, unhappy marriage. Do NOT return to the master bedroom until this matter has been resolved to your satisfaction.

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By JIM BRADSHAW
The Nunez community on La. 14 just east of Kaplan is named for descendants of a Spanish soldier who retired in Louisiana and did quite well for himself.
His grandson was rich enough to help refill an empty state treasury when the state nearly went bankrupt, and supposedly left a sizable estate when he died.
Nobody knows for sure just how sizable because a big hunk of money was never accounted for.
José (Joseph) Nunez was born in Galicia, Spain, in 1761, so was just 18 years old when he came to Louisiana in 1779.
He was discharged from the army about 1800 and began to raise cattle on the south Louisiana prairies.
His marriage to Marie Rose Richard was recorded in St. Martinville in 1802, and his cattle brand was registered there in 1804.
The couple made their home at or near Perry, where Marie died in 1833.
 There’s no record of when José died. He testified in a court case in 1838, so it was after that, and it was probably before 1850, because he is not listed in that year’s census.
Most of his estate went to Joseph Nunez Jr., who was popularly known as Joe Gallag, a nickname that came from a Spanish word for thrift, and that turned out to be entirely appropriate.
When he died in 1883, some obituaries called him the richest man in Vermilion Parish.
Joe Gallag’s son Adrien followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as a planter, rancher, and politician who served several terms in the state legislature.
He lived near the community that now carries the family name, but was then known as Spring Hill,
Some time after the Civil War, he moved to a place near Bancker that was later known as Live Oak Plantation. He continued to juggle careers as a planter, stockman and politician.
The biographer William Henry Perrin said in 1891 that Adrien was “remarkably successful.” 
He owned 14,000 acres of “excellent land, bounded on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, and on the west by Vermilion Bayou.”
Most of the land was used to graze stock, but 300 acres were “in a high state of cultivation, the principal products being rice, corn and cane.”
He also dealt “extensively” in a “fine grade of stock …[including] a number of Durham cattle, and a superior grade of horses, sheep, and hogs.”
Adrien had retired from politics by 1874, when Paulin Fontelieu, the incumbent state legislator, was killed in a duel.
His neighbors asked Nunez to get back into politics and he easily won the election to replace Fontelieu.
He made his uncommon contribution in 1877.
According to a newspaper article written many years later, “When [Reconstruction rule] ended, the State Treasury was depleted and there were no funds to hold a session of the Legislature . . . [so] Mr. Adrien Nunez . . . came home and got the sum of $25,000 . . . and that money kept the State Legislature in session.”
Adrien’s health was failing when he sold the Live Oak Plantation in 1904 for what would be close to a million dollars today. He died a year later, but when his affairs were settled a good part of the money from the plantation’s sale seems to have vanished.
Nobody’s sure where it went.
One theory is that Adrien was “land rich and money poor“ (like many others after the Civil War) when he died. He’d suffered some financial setbacks and the most probable scenario is that the money from the plantation sale went to satisfy old debts.
But there were also rumors that one of Adrien’s sons and much of Adrien’s money disappeared at the same time. Rumor mongers said the son went to Mexico with the money. His mother and siblings thought he went in the opposite direction because there was no money.
When Mrs. Nunez, the former Lillian Breaux, died in April 1935, her obituary in the Abbeville Meridional said that “nothing is positively known” about one of her sons, Cybile Nunez, “a promising young man who left Vermilion years ago to regain the lost fortunes of the family … but the family fears he was one of those adventurers who lost his life in the rush to the gold fields of the Klondike.”
He would not have been the only one from south Louisiana who were part of the Klondike Gold Rush, a stampede of prospectors who dreamed of finding a fortune after gold was discovered near Canada’s Klondike River  in 1896, nor the only one wo was lost in that stampede.
Even if Cybile was a victim of the Canadian wilds that seems a happier story than that he ran off with the family fortune.
You can contact Jim Bradshaw at jimbradshaw4321@gmail.com or P.O. Box 1121, Washington LA 70589.

BIBLE
SUPERHEROES
At vacation Bible school, 5:30 p.m. June 3-7 at Good Hope Baptist Church, 908 Washington St., Patterson. The theme is “God’s Superheroes: Adventures in Faith!”

VACATION
BIBLE SCHOOL
June 20-22 at the Church of Christ, 1105 Railroad Ave., Morgan City.

RUMMAGE
SALE
8 a.m.-noon Saturday, June 1, Patterson United Methodist Church, 1204 Main St., Patterson. The sale includes toys, household goods, books, shoes, purses and clothes.