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Federal Tipoffs Involving Mississippi Newsletter for Thursday May 16, 2024 ( 1 items )  

Justice Dept.: Former Mississippi Officer Pleads Guilty to Using Excessive Force
WASHINGTON, May 16 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on May 15, 2024: A former Mississippi Bureau of Investigations Officer assigned to the U.S. Marshals' Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force pleaded guilty today to using excessive force against a handcuffed arrestee. According to court documents and evidence presented in court, on Sept. 16, 2021, John Winstead was working as a federal task force officer when he willfully deprived arrestee K.K.H. of the Fou  more