Jason Stevens

Less-than-lethal force

A Meridian police officer tried to make a traffic stop, and the driver took off. He lost control of his car just outside city limits on North Lakeland Drive and went into a ditch. Multiple passengers bailed out of the car and ran away while the officer tried to arrest the driver. A Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks officer came by and tried to help the officer. There was a struggle to take the man into custody, while the subject tried to get into the Wildlife and Fisheries truck. The man was arrested and put in the back of an MPD other. He died a short time later.