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February 12, 2009

Mayor was routinely drunk, Wright testifies

The Clarion-Ledger, 2/12/9 Mayor Frank Melton’s former police bodyguard testified Wednesday it was not uncommon for him to see the mayor drinking. Marcus Wright said he was often sent on runs to the liquor store to pick up alcohol for Melton. And when asked by prosecutors how many times he had seen Melton under the…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
February 12, 2009

Melton, Recio knew the law, officials say

The Clarion-Ledger, 2/12/9 Mayor Frank Melton and Michael Recio, the mayor’s former police bodyguard, had been instructed on the legal ways to shut down a reported “dope house,” witnesses for the federal government testified Wednesday. Yet both men acted otherwise, according to the prosecution. The testimony came on the third day of Melton and Recio’s…