MSU Athletics Cuts Ties with Sponsor Implicated in Online Sex Predator Case
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ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI CDISPATCH.COM 50 ¢ NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY WEDNESDAY | NOVEMBER 21, 2018 MSU athletics cuts ties with sponsor implicated in online sex predator case The informa- “Bulldog Sports Properties, Owner of Gulf Relay pleaded guilty to cyberstalking in 2006 tion about Hind- as a third-party rights holder for BY BRETT HUDSON Bulldog Sports Properties charged with child exploitation, man came to light MSU Athletics, has sole respon- [email protected] and Gulf Relay LLC severed ties a crime that would have includ- when a picture of sibility for securing sponsor- him on the field ships on behalf of the program,” after Gulf Relay was the primary ed a penalty of registering as a The company that handles was posted on the statement said. “Bulldog sponsor of MSU’s Military Ap- sex offender. sponsorships for Mississippi social media and Sports Properties signed an State University’s athletics pro- preciation game against Arkan- Hindman pleaded guilty to fans recognized agreement with Gulf Relay with- Hindman gram ended a business relation- sas on Saturday. The president cyberstalking — a charge that him. out any knowledge of the events ship with a company Tuesday af- of Gulf Relay, Douglas Hind- has not landed him on the Mis- In a statement released Tues- from 2006. After just recently ter that company’s president was man, was arrested by the Hinds sissippi Sex Offender Registry day, Bulldog Sports Properties learning about the situation, identified as someone charged County Sheriff’s Office in 2006 — and was later pardoned by representatives said the com- Bulldog Sports Properties and with a sex crime against chil- during an investigation into former Governor Haley Barbo- pany did not know about Hind- the sponsor mutually agreed dren. online sex predators. He was ur. man’s history. See MSU, 8A THANKSGIVING MAKING COLUMBUS BEAUTIFUL Some area restaurants remain open for Thanksgiving BY ISABELLE ALTMAN [email protected] For the last sev- eral days, chef Beth Rogers has been pre- paring a Thanksgiv- ing meal — for more than 100 people. Rogers works at J. Broussard’s with her mother, owner Mary Rogers Broussard, and for the last several years, Rogers said, the restaurant has opened on Thanksgiving for a handful of hours — long enough to give customers a holiday meal “New Orleans style.” “Everything’s made from scratch,” Rogers said. “It’s really elaborate. We’re sourcing these great free range turkeys. It’s hard to even get those at the store here to cook yourself, much less get that (at a restaurant). I cook 25 turkeys Slim Smith/Dispatch Staff on Thanksgiving.” Tjajuan Boswell, left, a longtime Columbus beautification volunteer, is pictured with Mayor Robert Smith on Tuesday. Boswell Additionally, there will be Cajun has spent years coordinating the planting of flowers and trees throughout Columbus and creating city-wide cleanup efforts. cornbread dressing, sweet potatoes The city recognized Boswell’s efforts for her beautification of Columbus with a marker and tree dedication in the median in front of City Hall. with homemade marshmallows, potato rolls and cranberry sauce made from a 150-year-old recipe. Rogers said J. Broussard’s has opened for at least the last seven A HOMETOWN HERO years. It was never a particularly personal holiday for her family, she said, because her parents often Starkville investigator recognized worked. “One day we turned around and realized, we had a lot of employees for work on Labor Day murders case who ... weren’t going to be celebrat- ing the holiday (either), and we de- BY ALEX HOllOWAY didn’t stop for 30 minutes. He men meeting, its conclusion. cided, ‘Hey, let’s stay here together. [email protected] vowed at that point that he Lott, who’s Barbara Coats, a financial We’re going to open up and make was taking over that case and since been representative with Mod- our customers really happy,’” Rog- Anne McWhorter can still he was going to do whatever promoted from ern Woodmen said she ap- ers said. remember the day she met it took to solve it. I believed detective to proached Mayor Lynn Spruill “What’s really great now is we Starkville Police Dept. Lt. him.” lieutenant, was about six months ago to ask have a lot of older guests that maybe Bill Lott. Years later, Lott’s promise named a Mod- for a nomination for someone have small families and don’t want McWhorter is the sister of came through, as SPD ar- ern Woodmen with the city to recognize as Lott to cook a big fancy Thanksgiving 65-year-old Betty Jones, one rested Michael Devaughn, of H o m e t o w n one of this year’s hometown for just three people,” she added. “A of two victims, along with Rienzi, in early October in a Hero in recognition for his heroes. lot of the guests that come are small 81-year-old Kathryn Crigler, breakthrough for the nearly persistence. Modern Woodmen is a guests like that — groups of three in the infamous 1990 Labor 30-year-old case. On Tues- Lott has worked on the fraternal financial benefit or- or four that maybe don’t want to do Day murders. She was work- day, Lott said the case file case for 14 years, beginning ganization. Representatives an elaborate meal at home but they ing in her yard one day when has been completed and sub- in 1998, until he left SPD in can recognize individuals still want to have all of the bells and Lott approached her. mitted to go before the grand 2009 for military service in who make a difference in whistles, and this is a great way for “I look up and see this jury in January. Afghanistan. When he re- their communities through them to do that.” burly-looking man,” she said. Tuesday, during a brief turned in 2013, he continued the Hometown Hero awards See MEALS, 8A “He started talking and he Starkville Board of Alder- working on the case through See LOTT, 8A WEATHER FIVE QUESTIONS CALENDAR LOCAL FOLKS DISPATCH 1 What comic book artist inked the Fan- Friday HOLIDAY tastic Four, Incredible Hulk and Captain ■ Holiday Express Train: The Kansas City Southern America? 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Report: Ivanka Trump used personal email for government work Wednesday Discovery was always for logistics and scheduling concerning her prompted by family,” said the spokes- THANKSGIVING LUNCHEON man, Peter Mirijanian. Trotter Convention Center was the site Nov. 16 of the annual Senior public records Mirijanian stressed that Thanksgiving Luncheon, hosted by Columbus Mayor Robert Smith. no classified information Scene&Seen — Photos by Mary Pollitz/Dispatch Staff requests was transmitted in the messages, that no emails THE ASSOCIatED PRESS were deleted and that the emails have since been “re- WASHINGTON — tained” in conformity with Ivanka Trump, the presi- records laws. dent’s daughter and a top “When concerns were White House adviser, sent raised in the press 14 hundreds of emails about months ago, Ms. Trump government business from reviewed and verified a personal email account her email use with White last year, The Washington House Counsel and ex- Post reported Monday. plained the issue to con- The emails were sent to gressional leaders,” he White House aides, Cabi- said. net members and Ivanka The discovery was Trump’s assistants, many prompted by public re- Reba Ingram, Mary Plyler, Carla Guyton, Terri Miedema, Bernice Bankhead, Mattie Jackson Faye Brock in violation of public re- cords requests from the cords rules, the paper liberal watchdog group said. President Donald American Oversight. The Trump mercilessly criti- group’s executive direc- cized his 2016 Democrat- tor, Austin Evers, said in a ic rival, Hillary Clinton, statement that “The presi- for using a private email dent’s family is not above server during her time as the law,” and he called on secretary of state, labeling Congress to investigate.