News Briefs From Across The State
Drivers of both vehicles killed
The Mississippi Highway Patrol said two people died and one was injured in a wrong way crash south of Corinth Tuesday night.
Trooper Casey Mayo said Peggy Wages, 59, of Baldwyn, was driving south on Highway 45 when she crashed into a car driven by Jeffrey Bonds, 48, of Iuka, going north in the southbound lanes.
Emergency responders were called around 7:30 p.m. to the scene of the accident one mile south of the city.
Wages and Bonds both died in the accident.
A passenger in Wages car was taken to North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo and remains in critical condition.
Mayo said they were not wearing seatbelts and the accident remains under investigation.
Body found in Jackson creek
Jackson police are investigating the possible murder of a man found dead in a creek on Pleasant Avenue and Elm Street Monday night, WLBT reported.
Clifton Guyton, 35, had been missing since Thursday, March 15. Family members told WLBT they had been searching for him in the area when they discovered his body in the creek about 7 p.m.
Guyton’s family believes he was killed in retaliation for an earlier altercation.
“He had a fight with him and they said they were going to do something to him…so they obviously found him from what we are gathering, they found him, caught him walking and shot him and wrapped him up in a black bag and drug him down here to this creek,” Jeff Johnson told WLBT.
Jackson police said for now, the case is a death investigation, but that could change pending any evidence discovered.
The Hinds County Cororner said Guyton’s body showed no obvious signs of trauma or injury, but an autopsy would be performed.
Rankin man convicted in fondling case
A Rankin County man has been convicted of molesting three children. District Attorney Michael Guest says 61-year-old Joe Earl Cole has been convicted of sexual battery and gratification of lust in Rankin County involving three children who were 7-9 years of age when the crimes occurred.
Guest says Cole was sentenced to 35 years in prison with 10 years suspended. Cole also will be required to register as a sex offender.
Cole was arrested in 2010 after Pearl police investigated reports that several young girls had been fondled at Cole’s home.
Tests pending in DUI death case
A DUI death charge has been bound over to the next grand jury while Harrison County authorities wait for test results on DNA and the defendant’s blood-alcohol content level.
The Sun Herald reports 47-year-old Jon Lynn Armstrong of Gulfport is accused of driving under the influence of alcohol on U.S. Highway 49 on Jan. 23 when his northbound pickup truck veered into a southbound lane, striking a motorcycle and another truck.
Thirty-nine-year-old Alan D. Turk Jr., also of Gulfport, was wearing a DOT-approved motorcycle helmet, but died of his injuries. He also lived in Gulfport.
Armstrong remains in custody at the Harrison County jail. His bond at first was set at $200,000. It was later doubled to $400,000.
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