News In Mississippi, a trespasser, a killing and DEA meddling

[thegreenhand]

In Mississippi, a trespasser, a killing and DEA meddling​

Jim Mustian
AP
10 Aug 2022

Excerpts:

CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Harold Duane Poole was waiting with his semiautomatic service rifle — and an explanation — when deputies arrived at his sprawling wooded property on a warm spring night last year and found a bullet-riddled body near the driveway.

A veteran of the DEA’s military-style commando teams, Poole acknowledged he fatally shot a mentally ill neighbor just minutes after calling law enforcement to report the man was trespassing on his land – yet again – “out of his mind” and threatening him with a rock.

“I’m going to kill you!” Poole recalled Chase Brewer yelling before he responded by firing eight high-powered rounds, striking the man in the chest, gut and hip.

Sheriff’s investigators were skeptical of Poole’s self-defense claim from the start, reports show, mostly because he mentioned in his call for help that the trespasser was already leaving. No rock of any kind could be found. And the shooting happened 200 yards from Poole’s house, near the edge of his property, prompting deputies to determine Mississippi’s “castle doctrine” didn’t apply.

Multiple DEA agents responded to the crowded crime scene and one supervisor declared himself “in charge” and blocked state and local investigators from interviewing Poole for at least 48 hours, citing an unspecified policy, the law enforcement records show. Later that night, the DEA’s ranking official in New Orleans called the local sheriff after deputies decided they would arrest Poole. But by that time, the federal lawman had already left the scene to seek medical treatment for being “shaken up” — telling DEA officials but not local authorities.

“They tried everything they could to get us not to charge him,” Copiah County Sheriff Byron Swilley told the dead man’s family the day after the shooting, according to a recording of the private conversation obtained by the AP.

 

[thegreenhand]

While I would argue that the DEA is corrupt by the very nature of it’s charter, it’s pretty disgusting to see them pull shit like this to cover for one of their agents

 

[DieselNDope]

If they want him out he will be out soon..
I don't even need to know who it was that he shot... Honestly bet he was skint back looking to get into something because you don't fuck around over there on that side...that's the rich side lol. Keep your shenanigans to yourself.l. Also this happens regularly our new castle law and open carry just makes short work people.
everyone who is "someone" around here will never fall too far.