Indictments: Officials stole nearly $300,000 to buy guns
ECRU -- Officials say the former police chief and town clerk in a northeast Mississippi town stole nearly $300,000 from the 900-resident town and state, with the clerk using some money to buy guns and give them to the chief.
Pontotoc County grand jurors on Monday indicted former Ecru clerk Gretchin Moody of Pontotoc on three counts of embezzlement and former Ecru police chief Paul Blaylock of Belden on one count of fraud.
The indictment accuses Moody of stealing $128,000 in town court fines and $69,000 in payroll, plus using town credit cards to make $46,000 in personal purchases.
Blaylock is accused of sending in fake statements that led to unearned overtime payments from a state program that pays police officers to enforce traffic laws, as well as bilking the town for additional unearned overtime.
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