by Associated Press Published: May 10,2013
Tags: alderman, arrest, board of aldermen, bribe, bribery, charge, city, city government, court, crime, law, legal, municipal, municipality
CANTON — A Canton alderman is facing bribery charges. Louis Smith was arraigned in federal court in Jackson yesterday, entering a not guity plea, The Clarion-Ledger reports. Smith was arrested Wednesday. Unofficial results show the 56-year-old, three-term alderman lost his Democratic primary re-election bid Tuesday in Canton. He faces one felony count of bribery, which [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 11,2013
Tags: charge, concrete, engineer, engineering, explorationm, falify, law, law enforcement, legal, report, space, test, testing
DIAMONDHEAD — Authorities have accused a company of making false statements about concrete tests it was hired to do for NASA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Gulf Cities Testing Laboratories LLC, based in Diamondhead was charged in a criminal information in U.S. District Court in Gulfport. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 1,2013
Tags: arrest, charge, city government, crime, homicide, investigation, law, law enforcement, legal, mayor, murder, politician, Politics
CLARKSDALE — A 22-year-old man has been charged with murder in the death of a mayoral candidate, whose body was found near a river levee in the Mississippi Delta this week. The Coahoma County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release that Lawrence Reed of Shelby was charged in the death of Marco McMillian, 34, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 12,2012
Tags: accusation, charge, falsifying, fraud, infrastructure, lab, laboratory, sewage, sewer, test, testing, wastewater
JACKSON — The owner of an environmental laboratory in Mississippi has been charged with falsifying records on industrial wastewater samples that she was hired to test. Tennie White, owner and sole operator of Mississippi Environmental Analytical Laboratories Inc., was indicted in U.S. District Court in Jackson. She’s charged with two counts of making false statements [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 30,2012
Tags: automobile, bench, car lot, charge, court, dealer, dealership, guilty, illegal drugs, judge, judicial, justice, law, legal, marijuana, retail, trafficing
JACKSON — Two men convicted of marijuana charges related to a raid on a Jackson car lot have been sentenced to more than five years each. Johnny Earl Course and David E. Jones were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Jackson related to a raid on Paradise Auto Sales in south Jackson. Jones was sentenced [...] [...]
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 Associated Press Published: June 15,2012
Tags: alleged, charge, charged, cleanup, courts, debris, disaster, disaster recovery, hurricane, kickbacks, natural disaster, severe weather, tropical weather, Weather
BAY ST. LOUIS — Former Hancock County Road Manager Roger Ladner, his wife and two brothers have pleaded not guilty to a new federal indictment on charges in an alleged kickback scheme related to Hurricane Katrina cleanup contracts. The four are accused of a scheme in which Roger Ladner is alleged to have awarded Hurricane [...] [...]
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