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| Last Edited | RP Mar 01, 2006 04:57pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Hattiesburg American |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 1, 2006 10:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | About 150 people gathered in support of Forrest County Sheriff Billy McGee on Sunday, outraged at federal charges against him stemming from a dispute over ice trucks in the days following Hurricane Katrina.
Most who convened at the McLaurin Community Center added their signatures to a petition, which asserts that McGee acted in the best interests of residents when he seized a pair of 18-wheelers full of ice from Camp Shelby without Federal Emergency Management Agency authorization on Sept. 4.
"We had diabetic people who hadn't been able to put their insulin on ice for three days," said Lee Behrens, 53, chief of the McLaurin Volunteer Fire Department.
"If it was up to FEMA, those trucks would still be at Camp Shelby." |
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