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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Yahoo
Jackson man sentenced in auto theft case
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – A Jackson man has been sentenced in connection to an auto theft case. Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R-Miss.) announced Martez Davis was sentenced to 10 years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), with five years to serve followed by five years of post-release supervision. He was also ordered to pay $49,000 in restitution. Hattiesburg man pleads guilty to SNAP benefits fraud According to Fitch, Davis was found guilty of one count of false pretense and one count of wire fraud. She said Davis knowingly submitted a fraudulent cashier's check as payment for a vehicle. The case was investigated and prosecuted by the Mississippi Attorney General's Office with assistance from the Shelby County (AL) Sheriff's Office. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Mississippi attorney general nearly collapses, is aided by Utah AG Brown during GOP tour of the southern border
Temperatures at the southern border in Yuma, Arizona, teetered at the 100-degree line on Wednesday, as members of the Republican Attorneys General Association leadership took a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border, described by the tour participants as hot, dusty and dry. Members of the association, including Utah Attorney General Derek Brown, were quick to respond when their colleague, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, appeared to become lightheaded from the conditions, nearly falling before Brown and others caught her in time. 'I am so relieved Attorney General Lynn Fitch is doing OK and we were able to help her,' Brown told the Deseret News. 'I'm proud to have her as a colleague.' Fitch's communications director, MaryAsa Lee, also told the Desert News that Fitch is doing well, as she managed to offer her remarks after the incident, though noting, 'The temperatures are well into the triple digits today in Arizona!' Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman, who was speaking at the time of the incident, emphasized that it's a 'difficult environment that we ask men and women to serve in every day.' During President Joe Biden's four years in office, Sheriff David Rhodes, who serves Yavapai County in Arizona, said America's southern border created 'the most difficult, unsafe, unsanitary, unreasonable time in the history of this country when it comes to public safety and national security.' He added that in those fours years, law enforcement spent countless hours in Washington, D.C., pushing for more aid, stricter legislation and policy enforcement, 'because we knew the one thing which has been true until the end of time,' he said, 'which is that when people believe that the laws are going to be enforced, they don't break them, and that is the only way that you're going to have a safe and secure nation is to enforce the nation's laws.' Rhodes' comments were made Wednesday morning in Yuma at the southern border tour and discussion with federal officials and the Republican Attorneys General Association. Much of the conversation centered around collaborative efforts between state and federal law enforcement to crack down on criminals who came through the U.S. border under the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's 287(g) program. As of this week, 'ICE has signed 603 Memorandums of Agreement for 287(g) programs covering 40 states.' One of those states is Utah, where most fentanyl distributed within the state is coming from the southern border. Brown said that though Utah isn't a direct border state with Mexico, it still faces the same issues. 'We have highways traversing our state, and when drugs cross the border here, they're in Utah, within a matter of hours,' he said, adding that Utah was just recently included in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration's largest fentanyl bust in American history. The operation targeted the Sinaloa Cartel. Federal law enforcement arrested 16 people and 'seized record-breaking quantities of fentanyl, cash, firearms, and vehicles across multiple states, dismantling one of the largest and most dangerous drug trafficking organizations in U.S. history.' During Wednesday's discussion, officials said that there is a significant difference between when laws are enforced and when they are not, as shown by the variation in the number of border crossings since last year. The White House posted that in October 2024, border crossings were nearly 60,000 in just one month, down to 7,000 in March of this year. 'It turns out we didn't need a new law. We just needed a new president,' Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen said. 'Under Biden's unprecedented open borders, America suffered from drugs, from human trafficking, from unprecedented crime,' he said. 'Now that we have the Trump administration, things have shifted. Instead of playing defense, now we can play offense and collaborate with President Trump as we help him to protect the border.'
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Mississippi sues China for $200bn for costs associated with the Covid-19 pandemic
The state of Mississippi has declared victory in its $200 billion Covid lawsuit against the People's Republic of China - now it just has to work out how to get paid. Officials in Mississippi must wait for a federal judge to determine if China can be forced to pay it the massive sum after it failed to show up in court in March and a default judgment was entered against it. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch sued China and other parties back in 2020, claiming the country deliberately hid information about the Covid-19 pandemic. On Wednesday, the AG's office dismissed the Chinese Academy of Sciences as a co-defendant in the lawsuit, reported The Clarion-Ledger. The suit alleges that China failed to fully share the dangers of the deadly virus as it tried to 'corner the market' on PPE equipment such as masks as it spread across the globe. 'The Defendants engaged in a cover-up and a misleading public relations campaign, which included censoring scientists and ordering the destruction and suppression of valuable research,' the AG's office said in a statement. 'Further, the foreign Defendants bought up the supply of PPE, committed hostile takeovers of U.S. factories in China to prevent them from shipping PPE to the U.S., and then turned around and sold substandard PPE to Mississippi at inflated prices - all while hundreds of thousands of people across the globe, including in Mississippi, began to get sick and die.' Fitch claims China earned $6.2 trillion on PPE sales in 2020, while more than 13,000 victims died of the virus in Mississippi. The AG claims she can sue under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the state's antitrust laws. In March, the Missouri Attorney General's Office said it was looking at seizing $24.5 billion in Chinese assets in the state to recoup damages in a similar COVID-19 lawsuit. However, it's unclear how Mississippi would collect any money from China, which has never recognized the lawsuit as being valid or the federal court as having jurisdiction. Last month, the White House launched a website stating that the coronavirus came from a lab leak in China. In response, China made the case that the virus may have originated in the U.S.
The Independent
15-05-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Mississippi sues China for $200bn for costs associated with the Covid-19 pandemic
The state of Mississippi has declared victory in its $200 billion Covid lawsuit against the People's Republic of China - now it just has to work out how to get paid. Officials in Mississippi must wait for a federal judge to determine if China can be forced to pay it the massive sum after it failed to show up in court in March and a default judgment was entered against it. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch sued China and other parties back in 2020, claiming the country deliberately hid information about the Covid-19 pandemic. On Wednesday, the AG's office dismissed the Chinese Academy of Sciences as a co-defendant in the lawsuit, reported The Clarion-Ledger. The suit alleges that China failed to fully share the dangers of the deadly virus as it tried to 'corner the market' on PPE equipment such as masks as it spread across the globe. 'The Defendants engaged in a cover-up and a misleading public relations campaign, which included censoring scientists and ordering the destruction and suppression of valuable research,' the AG's office said in a statement. 'Further, the foreign Defendants bought up the supply of PPE, committed hostile takeovers of U.S. factories in China to prevent them from shipping PPE to the U.S., and then turned around and sold substandard PPE to Mississippi at inflated prices - all while hundreds of thousands of people across the globe, including in Mississippi, began to get sick and die.' Fitch claims China earned $6.2 trillion on PPE sales in 2020, while more than 13,000 victims died of the virus in Mississippi. The AG claims she can sue under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the state's antitrust laws. In March, the Missouri Attorney General's Office said it was looking at seizing $24.5 billion in Chinese assets in the state to recoup damages in a similar COVID-19 lawsuit. However, it's unclear how Mississippi would collect any money from China, which has never recognized the lawsuit as being valid or the federal court as having jurisdiction. Last month, the White House launched a website stating that the coronavirus came from a lab leak in China. In response, China made the case that the virus may have originated in the U.S.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Yahoo
Mississippi operation leads to recovery of 5 human trafficking victims
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. (WJTV) – Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R-Miss.) announced the completion of Operation 806, an operation conducted in Southaven led by her Human Trafficking Task Force. She said the operation resulted in one arrest and the recovery of five human trafficking victims. 'My office is committed to taking criminals who traffic people off the streets and equally committed to setting victims on the road to recovery,' said Fitch. 'We are grateful to our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners who worked with us on Operation 806 and who are a part of our task force network.' Teen faces murder charge in McComb park shooting During Operation 806, which was conducted on May 1, 2025, Fitch said investigators and prosecutors worked with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners to serve two search warrants, make the arrest, and recover the victims. The following agencies participated: Desoto County Sheriff's Office Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Hernando Police Department Mississippi Department of Revenue – Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, & Parks (MDWFP) Southaven Police Department In addition to law enforcement partners, the Center for Violence Prevention provided services and treatment to the victims that were recovered during this operation. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
