News Briefs From Across The State
By Monica Land
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A 26-year-old Jackson man is being sought in connection with a shoot-out with a Mississippi State trooper who tried to prevent the robbery of an elderly woman.
WLBT-TV reported on Saturday that the trooper saw Wilbert Coleman around 11:45 a.m. Friday morning in a parking lot of a mall.
The Highway Patrol says when the trooper approached Coleman, Coleman drew a revolver and fired at least two shots at the trooper. The trooper fired back. No one was shot.
Coleman fled in a green Buick onto Highway 80, where he ran on foot after getting a flat tire.
Jackson Police spokesman Eric Walls says 21-year-old Erica Johnson arrested and charged with armed robbery.
3 people in stable condition after their vehicle flips over
Two people and a 2-year-old child are at USA Medical Center after their vehicle went off the road and flipped over along Highway 63 in Jackson County around 10 p.m. on Friday.
The highway patrol said one of the adults was ejected from the vehicle during the crash.
All three were transported to the hospital where they are listed under stable condition.
Plea change for man charged in marijuana case
Federal court records say the owner of a used car dealership in Jackson plans to plead guilty to charges related to a raid on his business that allegedly uncovered 416 pounds of marijuana.
Jeremy Lee Stambaugh, owner of Paradise Auto Sales in south Jackson, was arrested at the car lot in February along with Johnny Earl Course and David E. Jones.
The men are charged in U.S. District Court in Jackson. They have pleaded not guilty.
A court filing Wednesday said a change of plea hearing is scheduled for Stambaugh on May 22.
Slain Marine’s service dog dies in Mississippi
A bomb-sniffing military dog that made national headlines when he was adopted by a fallen Marine’s family has died of cancer.
In 2007, a rocket explosion in Iraq killed Cpl. Dustin Lee and injured his canine partner, Lex. Medics had to pull Lex away from the Marine from Quitman, Miss., who died just a few weeks before his 21st birthday.
When Lee died, his family spent months lobbying for permission to adopt Lex. A North Carolina congressman aided Jerome and Rachel Lee and Lex was given permission to retire two years early. It was the first time the Marines granted such a request for someone other than a former handler.
A Marines spokesman says Lex died March 25, and had been undergoing treatment at the Mississippi State University veterinary school.
Ex-social worker pleads guilty to fraud
A 40-year-old Hollandale woman has pleaded guilty to wire fraud as part of a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Labor and the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.
U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, in a statement Friday, said Ruby Williams admitted using interstate wire communications to make false claims to MDES to get federally-funded unemployment insurance benefits while she continued to work and receive wages from various employers without reporting those wages to MDES.
From December 2008 through at least June 2010, Davis says Williams received about $18.293 in fraudulently claimed benefits while working at Warren-Washington-Issaquena Community Action Agency, Washington County Opportunities Inc., and Delta Community Mental Health.
Williams faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when she is sentenced July 10.
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