by Associated Press Published: May 14,2013
Tags: bench, bill, chamber of commerce, city, city government, court, crime, criminal, falsified records, fraud, investigator, law, legal, mayor, municipal, municipality, steal, stealing, testimony, theft, thief, trial
SOUTHAVEN — An investigator with the Mississippi auditor’s office has testified in court that Southaven Mayor Greg Davis submitted duplicate charges to the city and the Chamber of Commerce, and was reimbursed a total of $461,000. Davis’ attorney denied the claim. Karen Swain, an investigator with the state auditor’s office, said the city and the [...] [...]
SOUTHAVEN — Twenty-four current and former Internal Revenue Service employees have been charged with stealing government benefits, federal prosecutors said today. The IRS employees were indicted on charges that they illegally received more than $250,000 in benefits including unemployment insurance payments, food stamps, welfare, and housing vouchers, the U.S. attorney’s office in Memphis said in [...] [...]
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 28,2013
Tags: bank, banker, banking, bench, court, crime, drug addicition, finance, financial institution, fine, jail, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, prison, sentence, steal, stealing, teller, theft, thief, vault
GULFPORT — A federal judge has sentenced Ashley Ann Keel to 18 months in prison and ordered her to make restitution of the $80,980 she stole when she was vault teller for a Hancock Bank branch in Biloxi. The Sun Herald reports U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. sentenced Keel yesterday and also ordered drug [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 21,2013
Tags: bank, banker, banking, bench, court, crime, embezzlement, finance, financial institution, law, legal, prison, restitution, sentence, steal, teller, theft, vault
PICAYUNE — A former teller at a Picayune bank has been ordered to repay more than $117,000 she helped steal from the bank’s vault over a year’s time. U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden also sentenced 43-year-old Debra Mitchell, of Carriere, to six months in prison, six months of house arrest and two years of post-release [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 15,2013
Tags: athletics, bowl, bowler, bowling, bowling alley, bowling league, court, embezzlement, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, sports, steal, theft, thief
HERNANDO — A Mississippi businessman, accused of embezzling prize money from bowling leagues at the Southaven bowling center he owns, will go through pretrial intervention. It’s a program for first-time nonviolent offenders, instead of going to trial. The Commercial Appeal reports 71-year-old Tommy Hart must repay the nearly $47,000 in prize money to the four [...] [...]
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: 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 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 21,2013
Tags: bank, banker, banking, bench, court, embezzlement, finance, financial institution, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, plea, teller, theft
PICAYUNE — The former head teller of a Picayune bank has pleaded guilty to participating in the theft of $117,000 from a vault. Vonetta Jordan, of Poplarville, pleaded guilty to bank fraud in U.S. District Court in Gulfport. She will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden on May 23 and faces up to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 19,2013
Tags: bench, clerk, court, crime, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzler, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, sentence, steal, theft, thief
INDIANOLA — Former Indianola Municipal Court deputy clerk Tina Parker has been sentenced after previously pleading guilty to embezzlement, according to State Auditor Stacey Pickering. As part of the plea agreement, approved by Circuit Judge Margaret Carey-McCray, Parker was ordered to repay $35,000 in restitution, $982.50 in court costs, $300 in attorney fees and a [...] [...]
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