ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI C DISPATCH.COM FREE! WEDNESDAY | JULY 25, 2018 New CPD assistant chief resigns due to ‘family issues’ he first asked me was hired in Columbus, he Hall returns to Indianola a week after being sworn in at Columbus about him, I said made about $62,000 a year as BY ISABELLE ALTMAN said Hall, who began work with of Columbus,” Hall said. “His I wanted him to police chief. Now Hall is mak- [email protected] the department on July 8, was future, the way he desires the know I was going ing $66,000, which matches an “asset” in his short time at police department to be, would to do my best to his salary as Columbus assis- The assistant chief of Co- CPD. be outstanding if continues to convince him not tant chief. lumbus Police Department has “He helped me get some have the support of the mayor to leave us.” Columbus hired Hall to fill resigned. things established, so in his and the (city council), and I re- Hall Hall said when the spot left vacant by Fred Edrick C. Hall, who has short time here, he was fruit- ally hate I won’t be a part of it.” Rosenthal told Shelton, who was promoted to worked for CPD for about two ful,” Shelton said. Indianola Mayor Steve him of the board’s decision, police chief in January. weeks, submitted his resigna- Hall told The Dispatch the Rosenthal said the city’s board he said he would have to pray Hall was selected from tion Tuesday morning to re- decision to return to Indianola of aldermen voted 3-2 on July 9 about it. He said he made Shel- among 18 applicants for the sume his prior position as Indi- was a “very tough decision” and to ask Hall to remain as police ton aware of both the board’s assistant chief position. City anola police chief, according to he eventually made it because chief, and that Hall accepted decision and Hall’s own family Public Information Officer Joe a CPD press release. of family issues, about which he later that week. issues to see if they could work Dillon said CPD leadership Hall was hired in May and didn’t go into detail. “I was working my hardest it out. He alerted Shelton on plans to meet next week to sworn in as assistant chief on “I really want to thank Chief to try and get him to stay here Monday that he decided to re- determine the exact steps for July 17. Shelton for giving me the op- in Indianola,” Rosenthal said, turn to Indianola. launching a new search. CPD Chief Fred Shelton portunity to work for the city “And I told your mayor when Rosenthal said before Hall See HALL, 5A Man arrested for threatening Cups Up police informant Malvaney shares his journey from Klansman, coup Suspect convicted conspirator to lead man in BP clean-up effort of selling drugs to undercover individual BY AleX HOllOWAY [email protected] An Illinois man is in jail for threatening a police informant on the same day he received sentences for two prior drug charges. Starkville Police Department arrested Sullivan 24-year-old Trevor Sullivan, of Peoria, Illinois, Mon- day for retaliation against a public servant or witness. According to an affidavit The Dispatch obtained from Starkville municipal court, Sullivan threat- ened to harm a male informant by sending him a direct message on Instagram on July 19. The victim’s name was withheld. Sullivan was previously arrested for two charges from of sale of less than two grams of cocaine within 1,500 feet of a church, according to Oktibbeha County Circuit Court documents. He also faced a charge of selling psilocybin mushroom within 1,500 feet of a church. The two cocaine charges, according to Sullivan’s indictments, stem Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff from July 16 and Sept. 10 in 2015, George Malvaney recounts his past of being a high school dropout, ex-Klansman, ex-mercenary and ex-con to Co- while the mushroom charge stems lumbus Rotary Club members at Lion Hills Center Tuesday. Malvaney later went on to be a driving force in Missis- from Aug. 25 of the same year. The sippi’s response to the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill and a successful businessman. church in question was St. Joseph’s Catholic Church on University BY SLIM SMITH “She said, ‘We hear you have a immersed in a white supremacist Drive. [email protected] colorful past and would like to tell plot to overthrow a tiny Caribbean According to the indictments, your story,’” Malvaney recalled. nation by force — a coup that was Sullivan sold the drugs in each in- n the spring of 2010, George “That was not what I wanted to interrupted by an FBI informant, stance to “an undercover individu- Malvaney was on the coast as hear. I didn’t need the distractions. sending Malvaney to federal pris- al.” Ithe man in charge of part of It was not good. How could it be on. Mississippi 16th Circuit Judge what would be the biggest environ- good?” When The Sun Herald’s story Lee Coleman sentenced Sullivan to mental clean-up in U.S. history. Malvaney said he’ll never forget was published, Malvaney braced two concurrent 10-year suspended Malvaney’s job was to run the the headline: “Former Klansman himself. sentences, a $10,000 fine and five clean-up operations in Mississippi plays lead role in Gulf clean-up.” “I thought I was going to get lots years of probation for the sale of after the Deepwater Horizon explo- The headline wasn’t even the of push-back,” he said. “But I never cocaine charges. The sale of mush- sion had dumped millions of tons of half of it. The news story laid it all got a single negative comment. rooms charge was retired. crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. out there. The man BP, state and lo- What I did hear, over and over, was: Coleman issued Sullivan’s sen- In addition to overseeing the work, cal officials were relying on during ‘How did you go from that to this?’” tence on July 19 — the same day Malvaney met regularly with state a massive environmental disaster It is a question people never he reportedly threatened the infor- and local elected officials. isn’t just a former Klansman. He seem to tire of asking and Mal- mant. One day, Malvaney got a call is also a high school drop-out who vaney never seems to mind answer- Sullivan is being held in the Ok- from Anita Lee, a reporter for The had been “encouraged” to leave ing. tibbeha County Jail, according to Sun Herald in Biloxi. the Navy, and a man who became jail personnel. He has $15,000 bond See MALVANEY, 8A for the retaliation charge and no bond on the older charges. 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Chris Coons, The Associated Press D-Del., noted the list of SUMMER BALL those named by the White WASHINGTON Players and families enjoyed youth basketball game day House “exactly coincides July 17 at the Starkville Sportsplex. — President Donald with those who’ve been Scene&Seen Trump’s threat to revoke publicly critical of the the security clearances of president.” top former officials criti- “This is the sort of at- cal of his administration tack on free speech, the left congressional leaders press and the rights of stunned and confused, with the House speaker individuals to speak out shrugging it off as a bit of in our country that really “trolling.” doesn’t serve the presi- “I think he’s just troll- dent well,” Coons said on ing people, honestly,” Paul CNN.