Mississippi insurance agent News

Former Nationwide Agent in Mississippi Gets 10 Years for Embezzling $117K

A former Mississippi insurance agent will serve 10 years in prison for embezzling $117,863.74 from a customer and converting the money for his own use, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced last month. Charles Myrick Winstead, 54, an insurance agent …

Mississippi Insurance Agent Charged in Prison Bribery Case

An insurance agent from Jackson, Miss., is the latest person indicted in a corruption case tied to the former head of the Mississippi prison system. Guy E. “Butch” Evans, 61, appeared Aug. 24 in U.S. District Court in Jackson and …

How Mississippi Insurance Agent Came to Own Prized LSU Pigskin

Larry Benefield didn’t attend Louisiana State University. He has been to only one football game there in his life, a matchup against Kentucky in the 1980s or 1990s. But the Gulfport, Mississippi resident owns one of LSU’s most storied artifacts …