JACKSON COUNTY – Three people were charged with grand larceny after allegedly taking equipment from a Jackson County sawmill. Eugene Scott Porter, Porky Ladnier, III, and Kimberly May Perry, of Moss Point, were arrested after deputies launched an investigation.
Sheriff Mike Byrd said Jackson County deputies were responding to a “theft in process” call at the Cumbest Bluff Sawmill on Highway 63, when one of his deputies, Robert O’Bryant, noticed a red Ford 150 pick up truck on the highway loaded with what appeared to scrap metal.
“Deputy O’Bryant and other law enforcement officials conducted a traffic stop of the vehicle,” Byrd said, “and a further investigation revealed the item in the back of the truck to be a Saw Mill De-Barker taken from Cumbest Sawmill.”
Byrd said the saw mill was valued at $2,000.
Porter, 49, Ladnier, 55 and Perry, 32, were all taken into custody and charged.
They appeared in court before Judge T. Larry Wilson who set Perry and Porter’s bond at $5,000.
Sheriff Byrd said Ladnier was already on parole with the Mississippi Department of Corrections for a prior manufacture of methamphetamine conviction so his bond was set at $7,500.
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