News Briefs From Across The State
Woman feared kidnapped
A spokesperson for the FBI has confirmed that a woman who was reported missing on Saturday, Sept. 24, has been found alive. LaTonya King, who was initially feared kidnapped, was safely recovered by Special Agents of the FBI and FBI’s Jackson Safe Streets Task Force, sources said on Sept. 27.
Jackson police said King was reported missing about 1 a.m. Saturday after her vehicle was found “along Interstate 55 near Pearl Street,” The Clarion Ledger said. A “number of King’s personal belongings were on the ground” near her vehicle which led police to suspect the 31-year-old woman had been kidnapped.
Neither the FBI or the Jackson Police Department has released any details as to King’s whereabouts or her physical or emotional condition when she was found, but they are urging anyone with further information to contact them at 601-355-TIPS, or 601-960-1234; the FBI’s Jackson Division at 601-948-5000; or your local FBI or law enforcement office.
Weather alert system coming to Lee County
Lee County supervisors have approved a weather-alert system that calls residents in the path of dangerous storms. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that no date has been set for the system to be in place. That and other details must be further negotiated.
Lee County becomes the latest in a string of government contracts for Sarasota, Fla.-based Emergency Communications Network.
The company uses National Weather Service alerts to pinpoint the path of dangerous storms then calls residents in that geographic area to alert them. Only those within the danger zone receive calls.
When the system is in place, it will be able to call home phones, cell phones, office phones and even send text messages to alert residents to potentially dangerous weather.
Employee pleads on stealing air conditioners and selling them
Former Adams County maintenance supervisor Allen Jones has been sentenced to one year of supervised probation after entering an open plea to embezzlement charges.
An open plea means Jones on Thursday refused to accept the state’s recommended sentence and threw himself on the mercy of the court.
The Natchez Democrat reports that Jones was arrested last December on charges of selling a $935 county-owned 5-ton air conditioning unit to Sunflower Baptist Church for $1,607 in 2008. Circuit Judge Lillie Blackmon Sanders ordered Jones to pay full restitution, which records show he paid to the court Thursday.
Jones had been on administrative leave without pay.
Monroe County man charged with possession of child porn
A 67-year-old Amory man was arrested at his home and charged with five counts of possession of child pornography. Roger Wiggington was arrested at his home by investigators with the attorney general’s Internet Crime Against Children (ICAC) Task Force.
Attorney General Jim Hood said his cyber crime unit, in conjunction with law enforcement officers statewide, are working hard to locate people who download pornographic images of children from the Internet.
Wiggington was jailed in Monroe County and faces up to 40 years in jail on each count.
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