by Associated Press Published: September 30,2012
Tags: arrest, bank, banker, banking, drugs, embezzlement, finance, financial institution, money, steal, theft
GULFPORT — A former teller for Hancock Bank has been denied bond on a federal criminal complaint alleging she stole more than $80,000 from the bank. The Sun Herald reports 29-year-old Ashley Keel was denied bond Wednesday in U.S. District Court. Court records show that in an interview with the FBI, Keel admitted taking money [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 27,2012
Tags: arrest, boat, bogus, commercial fisherman, court, environment, explosion, federal government, fisherman, fraud, gas, justice, Oil, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, safety, seafood, train, trainer, training, wildlife, workplace
WIGGINS — A Mississippi woman is accused of posing as a federal worker to make nearly $216,000 giving fraudulent training classes to fishermen who hoped to get jobs cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. A 22-count federal indictment unsealed yesterday alleges that Connie M. Knight, 46, used phony credentials, diplomas and [...] [...]
PASS CHRISTIAN — A 47-year-old Pass Christian woman has been accused of embezzling more than $300,000 from her employer over a period of nearly two years. The Sun Herald reports Harrison County sheriff’s investigators arrested Kathleen Sue Woods on an embezzlement charge. Sheriff Melvin Brisolara said Woods was arrested following investigation of a complaint of [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: September 6,2012
Tags: arrest, construction, contractor, fraud, homebuilder, homebuilding, hurricane, indictment, law enforcement, manhunt, state government, storm, tropical, Weather
JACKSON — A building contractor has been arrested following a three-hour manhunt in Hinds County, according to Attorney General Jim Hood. Alvin Dennis Hall, 47, whose last known residence is Edwards, was indicted by a Madison County Grand Jury in 2009 after the Attorney General’s Office investigated a report alleging he accepted $10,000 for contracting [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 4,2012
Tags: arrest, hotel, hurricane, law enforcement, lodging, price gouging, severe weather, state agency, state government, state law, storm, tropical storm, tropical weather, Weather
VICKSBURG — The Mississippi attorney general says the owners of a Vicksburg hotel have been charged with price gouging during a state of emergency. Attorney General Jim Hood says authorities arrested 56-year-old Devenora V. Patel and 26-year-old Hemel Ramesh Surati at their business, The Battlefield Inn in Vicksburg. Hood says Patel and Surati are accused [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: August 31,2012
Tags: arrest, attorney general, burial, bury, business owner, cemetery, county, entrepreneur, funeral, headstone, law enforcement, monument, sheriff, state, tombstone
NATCHEZ — A Natchez business owner has been arrested and charged with felony false pretense, according to the Attorney General’s Office. Dwight Gibson, 45, owner of Clear Creek Monuments in Natchez, was arrested by investigators of the Attorney General’s Public Integrity Division and the Adam County Sheriff’s Office on two counts of felony false pretense. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 30,2012
Tags: arrest, gas station, law, law enforcement, price gouging, retail, severe weather, storm, tropical, Weather
NATCHEZ and MADISON — Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says two gas station owners were arrested yesterday and charged with price gouging during a state of emergency that’s in place because of Tropical Storm Isaac. Hood says 50-year-old Rajinder Singh of Madison was arrested at his Fuel Time gas station in Jackson. He also says [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 20,2012
Tags: arrest, break-in, burglar, burglary, drugstore, Family Business, father, law enforcement, mother, pharmacy, son, theft, thief
MOSS POINT — One of two Pascagoula men accused of a break-in at Burnham Drug Store is the son of the owners. The Sun Herald reports William McKinney, son of store owners John and Wendy McKinney, was arrested. Christopher Kirkland also was arrested. Another suspect, a juvenile, is still being sought. Moss Point police chief [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 7,2012
Tags: arrest, beg, begging, city council, councilman, fine, jail, money, municipal government, panhandle, panhandler, panhanling
JACKSON — Jackson City Councilman Quentin Whitwell wants to make it more costly to panhandle in downtown Jackson by increasing fines and possible jail sentences for repeat offenses. Whitwell tells The Clarion-Ledger residents have complained more and more lately of being accosted when they go downtown. While acknowledging the ordinance won’t solve the problem on [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 28,2012
Tags: arrest, director, drugs, fraud, health, health care, hospitals, medical, medicine, military, pharmaceuticals, prescription drugs, veterans
JACKSON — An associate director at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Mississippi has been arrested and charged with prescription fraud as part of an ongoing investigation, authorities said Thursday. Dorothy White-Taylor, 59, the associate director of patient care services at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson, was arrested Tuesday and released on [...] [...]
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