Thomas Smith #MississippiFlagGuy

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Criminal History

1997 conviction for burglary of a building
1997 desecrating a grave

Mar 24, 2021, Smith was arrested after he was indicted for embezzlement. A $657.20 demand letter was presented to Smith when he was arrested. Smith is accused of embezzling fuel by siphoning it out of a county-owned truck. Smith purportedly hid fuel containers on the side of the road so he could stop and siphon fuel from the truck into the containers. Smith would allegedly return to the location in a personal vehicle to retrieve the fuel he had siphoned. Investigators determined this scheme lasted from June 2019 to August 2019.

Smith was arrested in November 2021 and convicted of Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor in May 2022. Smith was originally charged with Child Abuse without Bodily Harm, and the disturbing details are recounted in the PSR

Documentation

Observed inside the tunnel