Law Enforcement Report
Street Department Supervisor Mike Scroggins and others from his department worked Monday replacing spindles on the City Park gazebo. – Photo by Jack Gurner
By Jack Gurner
Reporter
WATER VALLEY – Luther Gene Folson, Jr., has joined the Police Department as a part-time officer, according to Chief Mike King.
Folson is a native of Water Valley and a 1988 graduate of WVHS. He is a graduate of the law enforcement program at Mississippi Delta Junior College.
Police are investigating a malicious mischief involving damage to the gazebo in City Park. Workers from the Street Department repaired damage to the structure and replaced broken spindles Monday.
Because of the continuing vandalism, City officials have placed a closed sign on the entrance and the public is no longer allowed on the gazebo.
Anyone who can provide information is urged to call the police at 473-2933 or Yalobusha County Crime-Stoppers at 1-866-933-TIPS or 473-4935. Tips can also be sent by email to: TIPS@YalobushaCounty.net.
CrimeStoppers callers are never required to reveal their identity nor testify in court.
Lt. Rick McCuan reported the following additional law enforcement activity within the Water Valley City limits during the past week:
• Made two arrests for possession of marijuana;
• Made two arrests for disorderly conduct;
• Made two arrests for driving under suspension;
• Made an arrest for the Yalobusha County Justice Court;
• Made an arrest for possession of a controlled substance;
• Took two reports of simple assault;
• Took a report of disorderly conduct;
• Took a report of a missing person;
• Took a report of malicious mischief;
• Took a report of abuse of a vulnerable adult;
• Took a report of joyriding;
• Took a report of trespassing;
• Issued three citations for disturbing the peace, loud music;
• Issued a citation for open container;
• Issued a citation for violation of the city dog ordinance;
• Issued 29 traffic citations.
Sheriff Joins Nationwide Campaign For Driver Safety
By David Howell
Editor
The Yalobusha County Sheriff’s Department will join together with the Mississippi Highway Patrol and safety advocates across the country in support of the 2010 “Click It or Ticket” mobilization.
“In 2009, 700 people died on Mississippi’s roads and highways, and 68 percent of them were not buckled up. If seatbelts had been used, more than 200 of those killed might have lived,” Sheriff Humphreys reported, citing state statistics.
“Unfortunately, we can’t get those people back, but the reality is that seatbelts save lives. Mississippi’s law enforcement community continues to do everything they can to get that message across every day. That next effort started May 24 with the annual “Click It or Ticket” enforcement blitz,” Humphreys said.
The sheriff’s department received a grant from the Mississippi Department of Transportation to help with the seat-belt enforcement campaign, which will run through June 6.
High visibility enforcement campaigns such as the annual Click It or Ticket are credited with increasing the national seat belt usage from 58 percent in 1994 to the observed rate of 84 percent today.
In other sheriff’s department news reported during the last week:
• Made an arrest for DUI on May 21 on County Road 464 and a second DUI arrest on the same day on Hwy. 51.
• Investigated an attempted burglary on County Road 294 on May 23.
• Took a report of trespassing on May 21 on County Road 464.
• Took a report of petty larceny on May 21 on County Road 212.
• Worked a traffic accident in the parking lot of Griffis Truck Stop in Tillatoba on May 21.
• Made an arrest for DUI, suspended driver’s license, no tag and no insurance on County Road 436 on May 20.
• Investigated a fire on County Road 220 on May 18.
• Took a report of harassment and stalking on May 18 on County Road 295.
