Attorney General Jim Hood issued the following press release:
Lambert Mayor Arrested for Statutory Rape and Gratification of Lust
Jackson,
MS—The Mayor of Lambert is facing charges following two separate
indictments by a Quitman County Grand Jury, confirmed Attorney General
Jim Hood today.
Mayor Joe Willie Smith, 57, was arrested late Tuesday
by investigators with the Attorney General’s Public Integrity Division
and the Quitman County Sheriff’s Office. The first indictment is
for one count of statutory rape and the second indictment for one count
for gratification of lust. The first indictment alleges that Mayor
Smith “being a person seventeen years of age or older, did have sexual
intercourse with a child who was under the age
of sixteen at the time of the sexual intercourse.” The second
indictment alleges that Mayor Smith “did willfully, unlawfully, and for
the gratification of his lust did touch or rub his hands on the buttocks
of a child, who was under the age of sixteen.”
Mayor
Smith was booked into the Quitman County Jail with no bond set and is
awaiting trial before the Quitman County Circuit Court.
“We
understand the significant impact that an arrest of a public official
has on the community,” said Attorney General Hood. “This case will be
handled in the same manner and with the same
integrity as every other investigation.”
If
convicted, Mayor Smith faces up to 30 years behind bars for statutory
rape and 15 years for gratification of lust. As with all cases, the
defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty
beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
13 comments:
Joe Willie Smith
Is anyone actually shocked by this? If so just look at his picture....no surprise here.
I don't see anything about his 'picture' that tells me he would do this. But, if he did, he suffers the consequences. Sad for his family.
Do the crime, do the time. Tell 'em Steffey sent ya.
8:16 post makes zero sense.
What does this article have to do with Jackson? Heck, Jim Hood doesn't live in Jackson.
5:47 Hush - the grownups are talking. Please don't interrupt those of us who do get the reference.
Look at that Facebook Page, obviously ran by someone in the mayors office. All those Corvettes, big rims, flashy cars, I wonder what these people from Lamnert do to make all of that money? All I've heard is how poor Tallahatchie County is but looking at the vehicles, you wouldnt think it. Certainly none of those Corvette owners accept, dare I say it, benefits?
Also, drinking at the events?
Matt Steffey? You mean the greaseball who needs the shower?
12:27, I noticed the same thing. It looks like Lambert is hosting a ghetto fabulous hooptie show with awards for spinnin rim and loudest rap music playin stereo. Come get yo eat on and yo drink on while the mayor is in the back room with his...ahem...niece.
From da Maya's Facebook page. You have to scroll past the ghetto-grade auto show posts, the pictures of him wearing slave shackles, and the numerous posts about Freddie Gray to get to this grammatical gem:
"The Clean-Up Week when alright but there much more we have to do I after rain. Spring is coming soon so get your yards together. Remember, if your yard good maybe your neighbor will clean also. A clean community make business come. Make Lambert proud!"
And they wonder why Mississippi is dead-last in 'Human Capital'.
(OK, not many people REALLY wonder. But they pretend to wonder...)
Invest all the money you want, in "Education". It won't do a bit of good.
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