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: April 10,2013
Tags: anti-terrorism, death penalty, executive, governor, law, law enforcement, legal, legislation, legislative, legislator, Legislature, state government, terror, terrorism
JACKSON — Mississippi is set to add terrorism to the list of crimes that could lead to the death penalty, if a victim is killed. “The governor intends to sign this public safety measure,” Gov. Phil Bryant’s spokesman, Mick Bullock, told The Associated Press. Mississippi prosecutors already can pursue the death penalty if a victim [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 1,2013
Tags: arrest, association, crime, darts, embezzle, embezzlement, law, law enforcement, legal, sport, sports, steal, theft
ST. MARTIN — Authorities say a Jackson County couple accused of taking money from a dart association face an embezzlement charge. Biloxi police investigator David Shoemaker tells The Sun Herald 41-year-old Vica Ann Dees and 42-year-old Bryson John Dees, of St. Martin, allegedly took more than $14,000 from the Mississippi Gulf Coast Dart Association over [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 29,2013
Tags: autopsy, cause of death, crime, crime lab, death, investigation, law, law enforcement, mayor, mayoral candidate, murder, politican, Politics, public official, report
CLARKSDALE — More than a month has passed since Clarksdale mayoral candidate Marco McMillian was found dead, but the cause of death remains largely a mystery pending an autopsy report. McMillian’s body was found Feb. 27 in Coahoma County. Coahoma County Coroner Scotty Meredith says the state crime lab is waiting for an investigative report [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 21,2013
Tags: bribe, city government, crime, elected official, executive, federal government, indictment, law, law enforcement, legal, mayor, municipal, municipality, politician, Politics, public official
VICKSBURG —Mayor Paul Winfield has been indicted on a federal bribery charge. Federal court records show that Winfield was indicted Tuesday. He had already been charged in a criminal complaint in the case. The FBI arrested Winfield on Feb. 20. He pleaded not guilty the next day in U.S. District Court in Jackson and was [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 15,2013
Tags: appropriation, budget, budget cut, crime, funding, illegal immigrant, Illegal immigration, incarcerate, incarceration, jail, law enforcement, prison
GREENWOOD — Budget cuts at the Bureau of Prisons have put choosing a location for a 1,600-bed minimum-security prison for illegal immigrants on the back burner, according to Mississippi corrections officials. Management and Training Corporation, based in Centerville, Utah, submitted a bid to the federal government last summer to use the former Delta Correctional Facility, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 15,2013
Tags: agenct, appeal, author, bench, blog, book, case, court, judicial, judoiciary, justice, law, law enforcement, lawsuit, legal, media, prosecutor, tort, trial
JACKSON — The Mississippi Supreme Court has reinstated the appeal of a lawsuit against a former federal prosecutor and a political blogger over a book they co-wrote about the judicial corruption case involving former attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs. In 2011, FBI agent Hal Neilson sued authors Tom Dawson and Alan Lange and a publishing company. [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 11,2013
Tags: equipment, farm equipment, heavy equipment, investigate, investigator, investigsation, law enforcement, sherrif, stolen, theft
CHOCTAW COUNTY — Investigators from the Mississippi Agricultural and Livestock Theft Bureau (MALTB), the law enforcement division of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce, in conjunction with Sheriff Cloyd Halford of the Choctaw County Sheriff’s Department, has seized over $250,000.00 of stolen property. After a lengthy investigation, MALTB investigators and Halford seized the stolen [...] [...]
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, [...] [...]
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