Mississippi in Brief
YOU’LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT
It’s like Ralphie from A Christmas Story in real life. Last week, a Bayou View Elementary School second-grader brought a BB gun to school. According to the Sun Herald, the student never displayed the gun in a threatening manner and other students never saw the gun. The student put the BB gun in his bag to hide it from his mother. “This is a kid who made a mistake, there wasn’t intent to harm anyone,” School Superintendent Glen East said. “The staff did a good job handling the situation, and reacted, and did what they are trained to do.” There’s no report whether or not the student was wearing a pink bunny suit, but we can dream.
WHEN YOU ASK UBER FOR A PAY RAISE…
Because you unexpectedly work part-time as a private investigator. On Wednesday morning, one of two escaped inmates from Florida was arrested in Rankin County. The inmate, James Thomas Banks, was taken into custody on Interstate 20. Banks was arrested on charges of unarmed robbery and, now, escaping jail. According to the Clarion-Ledger, Banks and fellow inmate Michael Andrew Rotunno escaped from a van that transports prisoners on Monday morning. The van had stopped at the Walton County Jail, and the two men escaped sometime after pulling out from the jail. Banks called a taxi Wednesday morning to pick him up on the side of I-20. The taxi driver was suspicious after talking to Banks on the phone and called local law enforcement to follow him as he picked up the escapee. When the police and cab arrived, Banks was the man on the side of the road. One of his ankles still had a shackle on it. Rotunno was last spotted Tuesday in Texas.
A CLEAR CASE OF WRONG AND WRIGHT
30 Yorkshire terriers were removed from a house in Gulfport Tuesday. According to Gulf Live, Gulfport police arrested owner James Wright on multiple charges after searching his home. Among those charges are failure to provide rabies vaccinations to the animals and keeping too many animals in one house. Police began investigating Wright’s situation in March after an animal control officer was alerted of poor animal care at the house. Police warned Wright to decrease the number of animals on the property and when he failed to do so, law enforcement obtained a search warrant to assess the situation. The Humane Society of South Mississippi is currently housing the dogs in a temporary emergency shelter before putting them up for adoption.
