News Briefs From Across The State
Driver of 18-wheeler seriously injured
A Union County teenager has been killed in a two-vehicle accident on a county road. County Coroner Mark Golding says 16-year-old David Wilson Moody Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene of Monday’s accident. Moody was a student at Myrtle High School.
Authorities say an 18-wheeler hauling soybeans from a Myrtle farming operation collided with Moody’s pickup truck on Oct. 10.
Moody was from New Albany.
The 18-wheeler driver has been airlifted to a Memphis hospital. His condition was not available.
The accident is under investigation.
Fisherman drowns at Lake Calling Panther
The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks says a drowning at Lake Calling Panther appears to have been accidental. Department spokesman Lane Ball tells The Enterprise-Journal of McComb that a diver from the McComb Fire Department found the body of 51-year-old Stanley Owen Harper of Crystal Springs in eight feet of water on Friday, Oct. 7
He says the lake manager found neatly folded clothes and a wallet, cell phone and small backpack at the end of the fishing pier and Harper’s car, with its keys, in the parking lot.
Ball says the dive team was called in when a search around the 500-acre lake and a visit to Harper’s family failed to turn up any clues
Man killed in collision of motorcycles
Police say a Jackson man died in a wreck involving two motorcycles. Jackson Police Department spokeswoman Colendula Green tells The Clarion-Ledger 62-year-old Otis Mayes was riding southbound on Watkins Drive when he collided with another motorcycle and was thrown from his bike.
Green says Mayes was taken to a local hospital shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8.
Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart said Mayes died of blunt-force trauma in the emergency room at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Man killed on US Highway 49
A 74-year-old Saucier man died in a two-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 49.
Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove identified the victim on Saturday’s accident as 74-year-old Hilery Pat Sullivan.
Hargrove tells The Sun Herald Sullivan’s car was struck from behind by a pickup about 4:30 p.m. He says the car ran down the incline and hit a culvert head-on.
Hargrove said the driver of the truck, who has not been identified, was not hurt.
The Mississippi Highway Patrol is investigating the accident.
Bank robbery indictment issued
A 47-year-old Bay St. Louis man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of bank robbery. The Sea Coast Echo reports that Michael William Gardner was indicted this past week on charges in the robbery of the Hancock Bank in Waveland in July.
Authorities say a man walked into the bank with a crowbar, jumped the teller’s booth and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The FBI and Waveland police investigated the case.
Gardner faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. No trial date has been set.
2 plead guilty in federal meth case
Two people accused of making methamphetamine in Biloxi and distributing it around Harrison County have pleaded guilty to federal charges. The Sun Herald reports 31-year-old Steve Mitchel Henthorn of Byhalia faces up to 20 years in prison and 30-year-old Jamie Renee Duncan of Biloxi, faces up to 10 years.
Court records show they accepted plea bargains this past week in federal court in Gulfport.
Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 14.
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