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Cemetery owner pleads guilty to state charges
Cemetery owner Wayne Hight of Booneville has been sentenced to four years in prison for failing to properly fund pre-need burial trusts.
The Daily Corinthian reported that Hight was also ordered to pay restitution of more than $500,000.
Assistant District Attorney Richard Bowen said the 74-year-old Hight pleaded guilty in Alcorn County Circuit Court to two counts of misapplying or converting pre-need funds at Oaklawn Memorial Park and two counts of the same charge at Forrest Memorial Park. […]