by Associated Press Published: March 7,2013
Tags: candidate, crime, federal agency, homicide, investigation, law, law enforcement, mayor, murder, politician
CLARKSDALE — The FBI says it has been monitoring the state investigation into the death of an openly gay mayoral candidate in Mississippi, but the agency didn’t indicate it had opened its own investigation. U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson asked Tuesday for the FBI to “review the circumstances and evidence” in the slaying of Marco McMillian, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 6,2013
Tags: crime, elected official, federal government, homiciade, investigation, law, law enforcement, legislative, mayor, murder, politician
CLARKSDALE — A Mississippi congressman on Tuesday asked the FBI to review the slaying of an openly gay mayoral candidate to determine if any federal laws might have been violated. U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson’s district includes Clarksdale, where Marco McMillian was running. McMillian, 34, was found slain last week in a rural area nearby. Thompson, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 5,2013
Tags: attorney, bench, case, citizenship, court, crime, employee, employer, foreign worker, harboring, illegal immigrant, immigration, justice, law, lawyer, legal, money laundering, trial, worker
ABERDEEN — An attorney wants to delay the trial of a man charged with money laundering and harboring illegal immigrants. James Massey Jr. and A-1 Homes, LLC are accused of trying to conceal payments to an illegal immigrant who worked for the company. The Mississippi Secretary of State’s office shows the company with a Horn [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 4,2013
Tags: beaten, burned, crime, death, homiciade, law, law enforcement, legal, mayor, murder, politician, Politics
CLARKSDALE — The family of a slain Mississippi mayoral candidate says he was beaten and burned. Marco McMillian’s godfather, Carter Womack, said today the information came from the Coahoma County coroner. The coroner declined to comment. Womack said the family was told McMillian’s body was dragged under a fence and left near a Mississippi River [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 4,2013
Tags: acquisition, buy, charter boat, crime, investigate, investigation, investigator, land, law, legal, misappropriation, property, purchase, real estate, sale, sell, state agency
BILOXI — About $80,000 in charter boat trips are now part of a criminal investigation of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, an official has told The Sun Herald. Invoices and letters provided by the DMR indicate the trips were to sample fish for research about artificial reefs, even though the department owns a $389,000 [...] [...]
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: February 28,2013
Tags: bench, court, crime, federal government, fence, judge, justice, law, legal, sentence, steal, theft
NATCHEZ — Federal court records say Michael Fralick has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison in a scheme to purchase trucks, tractors and other equipment stolen from dealers in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Fralick was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Natchez. He and Jory Sam Tantillo were indicted in February 2012 [...] [...]
CLARKSDALE — Whatever his prospects for winning the coming mayoral election in his hometown of Clarksdale, Marco McMillian was considered by many to be a man on the rise. So word spread fast when his SUV was involved in a wreck this week, and he was nowhere to be found. The discovery of the openly [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 25,2013
Tags: city government, crime, door to door salesman, law enforcement, municipal, municipality, ordinance, permit, public safety, sales, sell
STARKVILLE — The Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Department wants to require door-to-door salesmen to have permits that confirm the legitimacy of their business. The Starkville Daily News reports Chief Deputy Chadd Garnett has told supervisors that some county residents had complained week about magazine salesmen who were asking people to buy subscriptions they claimed would be [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 20,2013
Tags: appeal, attorney, bribe, conviction, crime, judge, judicial bribery, law, law firm, lawyer
OXFORD — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied an appeal from Zach Scruggs, who was implicated as having knowledge of a judicial corruption scheme that toppled his father, plaintiffs’ lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs. The court without comment declined Scruggs’ request to hear his appeal. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld [...] [...]
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