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Wire fraud: Mississippi tribal council member pleads guilty
July 3, 2021 GMT
JACKSON, MIss. (AP) A Native American tribal council member in Mississippi has pleaded guilty to wire fraud.
Roderick Bell, 42, of Philadelphia, admitted submitting phony hotel bills and receipts to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw government as business travel expenses between April and October of 2017, a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
He pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Jackson, and is scheduled for sentencing Oct. 6 before Judge Carlton Reeves on the single charge. It carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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‘Has he ever used a weapon against you or threatened you with a weapon?’
Canton police lacked a tool former Byram Police Chief Luke Thompson had used. At a conference on domestic violence a decade ago, he learned about the Danger Assessment, a one-page quiz developed for victims in 1985 by sociologist Jacqueline Campbell at Johns Hopkins.
Adding one new question, Thompson gave the sheet to his officers responding to calls about domestic violence: “Has he ever used a weapon against you or threatened you with a weapon?” If a victim answers “yes” to any of the first three questions, the officer hands the victim a cellphone with an advocate on the other end of the line.
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