A Natchez man is under arrest after police said officers found cocaine and a loaded handgun during a traffic stop early yesterday.
Natchez police say FLEX officers stopped a vehicle driven by Timothy Hooker on Covington Road for a traffic violation. During the stop, officers reported finding a loaded handgun, 260 grams of cocaine hydrochloride, and about 18 grams of crack cocaine. Hooker was taken into custody without incident and charged with possession of cocaine hydrochloride with intent to traffic and possession of crack cocaine with intent to sell or distribute. Police also reported seizing $2,096.
Police said both charges include sentence enhancements because the alleged offenses occurred within 1,500 feet of a school or a church, and because Hooker allegedly had the loaded gun with him.
In Grambling, the day after the campus student government association president was arrested on a third-degree rape charge, Grambling’s campus police chief and assistant police chief resigned. The university said the two developments are unrelated. Additional information about the circumstances of the alleged crime was not immediately available.
Separately, a person was injured in a boating accident on the lake at Percy Quinn State Park, according to the Pike County Emergency Management Agency. Emergency crews responded just before 2:30 p.m. yesterday. Responders pulled the patient from the water, transferred them to an ambulance for assessment and treatment, and the patient was taken to Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center, where officials reported the person was stable. Additional details about the accident were not immediately available.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said the state is making a $3.5 billion investment in rural Louisiana. He said the funding will support access including high-speed internet, health care, and improvements to roads and bridges. Landry said high-speed internet will be delivered through fiber deployment into rural parishes and carried out by Louisiana companies, and that it can support telehealth and business growth.
In Natchez, the Mississippi River in the Mississippi Valley is reported at 22.09 feet and rising.
