Mississippi Highway Patrol

Other MCEC expenditures, though, were less clearly fraudulent, so investigators labeled them as questionable or wasteful spending.

Through MCEC, the New family donated to nonprofit organizations like the American Heart Association, the Mississippi Highway Patrol, universities, and pageants.

MCEC also spent TANF funds on sponsoring athletic events, like a college baseball tournament.

These types of expenditures lacked proof that they were used to help the needy.

Now think, this was 1982.

He said when they got to Mississippi, some Mississippi Highway Patrol was following 'em.

They go on, and, and he said, "Oh Lord, here we go."

Mm.

Yeah.

And then, Bev, also getting the help from the Mississippi Highway Patrol.

Oh, really? Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, there was a guy that looked kind of creepy, and he was on a boat with this other guy, and, you know... know my my dad or somebody else had to escort this lady to the boat because of the person there i mean that's cool that that sounds like some type of evidence that they should be able to listen uh look look into you should be able to look into all of the evidence all of the actual characters and the people of interest all of them but when you had three to four hundred people on an island It may take some time.

And do you trust Mississippi State Police to do that? Do you trust them to be able to actually have a actual competent investigation? I don't.

You know how many people around Mississippi are coming around, are coming up, being hung from trees? Too many to count now.

That they're all suicides? They're all accidents? Yeah, this person was playing and they fell from the tree and then all of a sudden there was a rope there.

Look in the back left corner.

You see who's there? The Mississippi State Troopers.

Or should I say Mississippi State Troopers.

They back there.

Look at them celebrate.

Kudos to them, by the way.

OPD, Mississippi Highway Patrol, Sheriff's Department, the Louisiana Highway Patrol.

I mean, I'm sure a lot of these people probably thought this is insane, but they did their job.

and they had very secure for LSU's arrival.

Great host.

And we are in the back, uh, w- the new renovated area of Funke's, and, uh, the, the area dedicated to his brother who, uh, uh, who died in the line of duty serving for the Mississippi State Police.

And, uh, John Martin Harris, uh, his name, uh, died in 2021, and since then they've dedicated a space to him here.

It's tremendous.

Yeah, they're

going to have the most – Mississippi Highway Patrol presence they've ever had in Oxford for a sporting event.

Another measure Ole Miss has taken is building a fence around the area where the visiting team buses arrive at the stadium on game day.

These two initiatives follow Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry's joking that extraordinary measures could be taken and should be taken to protect Kiffin and the LSU team during their trip to Oxford.

And that type of talk is – is beneath even a head coach like Josh Heupel, believe it or not, and especially beneath the governor of one of the 50 states of the United States.

So, yeah, in yet another proactive step, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety announced that, quote, an enhanced law enforcement presence would be in Oxford for Saturday's game.

That will include the largest deployment of Mississippi Highway Patrol ever used for a college football game.

That's unreal.