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Cemetery owner gets four years for mishandling trusts

Associated Press — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:59:54 +0000

BOONEVILLE — Cemetery owner Wayne Hight of Booneville has been sentenced to serve four years in prison for failing to properly fund pre-need burial trusts. Assistant District Attorney Richard Bowen tells The Daily Corinthian reports Hight also was ordered to pay restitution of more than $500,000. Bowen said Hight, 74, pleaded guilty Friday in Alcorn [...]

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Cemetery owner indicted; accused of mishandling pre-need funds

MBJ Staff — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:41:39 +0000

TUPELO — Cemetery owner Wayne Hight of Corinth has been indicted, according to a news release from Lee County District Attorney Trent Kelly and Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann. Hight has been indicted for failing to fund at least 85 percent of funds received for funeral services and merchandise as required by state law and [...]

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Business owner accused of bogus tombstone transactions

MBJ Staff — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:42:00 +0000

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. [...]

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Historic Spring Hill Cemetery getting new life

Associated Press — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:43:10 +0000

HERNANDO — Spring Hill Cemetery was recently named to the National Register of Historical sites and officials are discussing how to continue with improvements to the grounds. “Your oaks are going to be Southern red and blackjack oaks,” said Chad Pope, an ecologist with the Strawberry Plains Audubon Center in Holly Springs. He recently went [...]

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SoS seeking information from plot owners

Wally Northway — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:10:19 +0000

Due to the inconsistent and incomplete recordkeeping of pre-need trust accounts in the four cemeteries owned by Don Middleton of Rogers Memorial Management and currently in receivership, the Office of the Secretary of State will hold public information gathering meetings across the State to compile more accurate account information. “Don Middleton has depleted the trust [...]

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