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Suspects deceive police concerning bridge wreck
Published Thursday, August 13, 2009
VIDALIA — One of the men arrested in connection with the accident on the eastbound Mississippi River bridge has been released after he was able to prove he had nothing to do with the wreck.
The accident occurred when a vehicle carrying Arthur Richardson, William Carter and an unidentified third person apparently tried to pass two cars by using the shoulder on the bridge, Vidalia Police Investigator Randy Stockman said.
While Richardson and Carter were arrested on the scene, the third person sprinted the length of the bridge and escaped into a wooded area in Natchez.
Eventually, the two men who were arrested named Melvin Trivell Green as the driver of the car.
The problem was, he wasn’t, Stockman said.
“The guys in the car knew him, they had gone to school with him, and they just threw his name up as the driver,” Stockman said.
After Green learned he had a warrant for his arrest, he went to the Vidalia police and was booked.
“He said, ‘There is no way this was me, I was on my way from Hattiesburg to visit my family,’” Stockman said.
When the investigator asked him if there was anything to back his claims up, Green was able to produce a receipt from the Dollar General in Prentiss for ice cream sandwiches he had bought his children approximately 20 minutes before the accident happened.
Stockman called the Dollar General and was able to confirm Green had been there through the store’s surveillance video, he said.
Green was released and the charges against him were dropped on an order signed by Judge Leo Boothe Aug. 10.
Stockman said another arrest is pending.
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Posted by jammin1 (anonymous) on August 13, 2009 at 1:01 a.m. (Suggest removal)
They won't give up a guilty person but they are quick to get an innocent one arrested??
Sounds like some more charges to me, and a civil law suit against Arthur Richardson & William Carter for false arrest defamation of character and anything else I could think of.
Posted by natashakubelikov (anonymous) on August 13, 2009 at 2:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
They you go another slap on the wrist,they just want it to go away so they won,t have to be bothered.
Posted by gerandall58 (Greg Randall) on August 13, 2009 at 5:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The two that are covering this ought to have to pay for his crime !! You are allowing him to do this again and possibly kill someone next time !!!
Posted by LOVESNATCHEZ (anonymous) on August 13, 2009 at 7:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)
WOW.. This is scary. 2 thugs "throw out " a name and the guy is arrested. What if Mr. Green had not had a receipt? I thought it was "innocent until proven guilty"... I didn't know you were actually guilty until YOU CAN PROVE YOU'RE INNOCENT... The 2 that lied should go directly to prison...
Posted by DUCKHUNTER (anonymous) on August 13, 2009 at 8:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)
kshollywood: READ IT AGAIN! the man released was the innocent party, "the name that was just thrown out there."
please read the whole story before posting.
Posted by rocketman (anonymous) on August 13, 2009 at 8:08 a.m. (Suggest removal)
kshollywood: Did you not comprehend what the article said? Obviously not. Please re-read.
Posted by snowgarden (anonymous) on August 13, 2009 at 8:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)
wow. Some of our locals are really "special."
I'm willing to bet that the guy that was REALLY driving the car has several warrants out for his arrest already. It also makes me wonder what he has on the other two that makes them so afraid to give up his name!
Posted by Krogers (anonymous) on August 13, 2009 at 12:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
unbelievable
passing on the shoulder of the bridge, that's about as stupid as you can get......
punks.., too bad they didn't flip over the side-rail and plummet into the river...
Posted by squeetlebomb (anonymous) on August 13, 2009 at 3:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)
If reporters can be locked up for contempt of court for not giving their source, then lock these 2 up till they give up who was driving.
Posted by consider_reason (anonymous) on August 14, 2009 at 2:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)
AMEN bobo - they aren't even qualified to be dullest knives in the drawer- dullest SPOONS perhaps.
Working one case at a time sure pays off.
But a department takes on the qualities of it's leadership - 'nuff said.
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