Mayor Frank Melton traveled to an out-of-state meeting this week, although restrictions laid out in his bond confine him to Mississippi.
Melton was indicted in July by a federal grand jury on charges related to the damage of a duplex on Ridgeway Street in 2006. His two former bodyguards were indicted as well.
No one close to Melton’s case, including the mayor, would say if he had permission to leave the state. He is scheduled to return to work today and has called a department head meeting for this morning.
Goldia Revies, a spokeswoman for the city, said the mayor was at a meeting of Broadcast Music Inc.’s board, of which Melton is a member. She said the meeting was out of state but did not say where. A BMI official said the meeting was in Nashville.
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