Wendell Blount, one of the more colorful characters in Calhoun County, has been indicted for vehicular homicide– he is accused of having been under the influence of morphine, driving on the Natchez Trace, when he ran over a bicycling Dutch tourist/journalist April 22nd.
I’m quite familiar with Mr. Blount– my firm held a six figure judgment against him that Judge Houston held was nondischarable in bankruptcy (because of Blount’s fraud…). Paul Quinn has some of the outlines of Blount’s life-in-crime, although there are other stories out there–e.g. the time another colorful Calhoun County character took out a life insurance policy on Blount (unbeknown to Blount), and then attempted to hire a hit on Blount so he could collect on the insurance. The insurance agent smelled something fishy and went to the federal authorities, leading to a jail term for the would-be-insurance purchaser. That one is possibly more a cautionary tale on being careful who you hang out with.
Perhaps I should open a thread for stories about the guy.
Here’s some of Paul’s story:
Wendell G. Blount, 58, is suspected of being high on morphine when he allegedly hit Dutch tourist Esther Hageman, 51, on April 22 while traveling in an SUV. He is being held at the Lafayette County Detention Center without bond pending a hearing today .
Hageman was killed in Chickasaw County while on a cycling tour of the South. She had worked as a journalist in The Netherlands since 1981.
Blount had not been out of prison long before being indicted by a grand jury on Oct. 8 and arrested on Thursday.
According to federal prison records, Blount was released in December after serving time for possessing 23 kilos of marijuana in south Texas.
Blount also served time for a 1994 case involving heavy machinery in north Mississippi.
In 2001, Blount worked as a confidential informant with the U.S. Customs Service in a money laundering case that sent two prominent businessmen to prison.
See what I mean? Colorful character.
you know what although wendell may have been a “colorful” character he has gone through a lot of stuff. This occurance is a tragedy but i dont think anyone who does not personally know him has a right to slander his name any more than i have to slander yours. Also, they say he was high on morphine tru he shouldnt have been driving but what they left out was he suffers from chronic pain and is addicted to pain killers but it is legally prescribed! and the group she was with was riding in the middle of the road. im not saying this excuses him because he knew he shouldnt be driveing but still!
There’s no doubt this is a tragedy for Esther Hagerman and her family and friends, Cheyenne. I personally know Wendell Blount, and read through this post and the newspaper story and see only facts that are public record. What are you saying is slanderous?
What is a “case involving heavy machinery”? Is that a term of art or is it to be taken literally? What kind of case? A criminal case?
a criminal case. Literally “heavy machinery”– e.g. bulldozers or some such. The vagueness is from want of details in the public record, I think.
I love it when people say ‘bikers were in the middle of the road’ THEY ARE VEHICLES ON THE TRACE AND HAVE A RIGHT TO BE THERE…and they must obey traffic rules and it is up to the car drivers to practice safe driving/passing maneuvers and obey the rules that pertain to them…there are ‘Share the Road’ signs up and down the Trace…
Pain medicine does cause intoxication and he knows this if he has been taken it long..he is liable for this poor woman’s death…don’t blame the doctors for prescribing it for his ‘chronic pain’…(I am sure that is what he got the marijuana for…not to sell it…NO,NO,NO not that)If he is impaired in any way he should not drive…and as a 58 year old ‘colorful’ character he knows better.
Roads should be for motor vehicles ONLY! Get off the road pedestrians! Get off the road bicyclists! Get off the road deer and pets! If someone is STUPID enough to ride thier bicycle down the middle of the road, then maybe the SHOULD get hit. By riding down the middle of the road, the lady was asking for it! Anybody (whether on pain meds or not) could have hit her. Accidents happen! I’m not on drugs and I could have accidently hit her. YOU could have hit her. Your mom could have hit her. Again, accidents happen. Bicyclists are VERY shelfish because not only do they put themselves at risk, they put even the SAFEST motorests at the risk of bearing a lifetime of emotional pain and regret should an accident happen. BOOO to the cyclists… they make me nervous!!!
1) He wasn’t “high on morphine”. He had less than 2,300 nanograms (I think that is the correct measurement. Going off memory) in his system per the toxicology report, almost 7,000 nanograms LESS than what he should have had in his system if he was taking his prescription per the doctors prescribed dosage. And even the 10,000 nongram count that should have been present, doctors testified at his hearing that would still not be enough to impair him. Even the Ranger on the scene has gone on record as saying that he was lucid and showed no signs of any form of impairment.
Hasn’t anyone wondered why this guy who was “blasted on morphine” wasn’t arrested at the scene where he sat waiting for the authorities to arrive? Hasn’t anyone wondered why he hasn’t even been charged with DUI?
2) The woman was in the middle of the road. I’m not at liberty to say how it is verifiable fact, but it is.
3) The heavy equipment deal was receiving stolen property across state lines. It was purchased out of Louisiana through an auction lot. Ironically, Wendell is the one who reported the equipment to the authorities when he actually saw it. It was much too new and unused to match the price he paid for it sight unseen. Yet, no one else in that entire deal spent one day in jail.
The equipment deal is actually really interesting, since it really starts much earlier in relation to a contract killing case involving an FBI informant. If you want the FBI to come after you, expose one of their informants by holding him to the same law we are expected to abide by. I’ll stop now, as I could literally write an entire book about this. I just wanted to say a few facts in regards to some things I had read.
Of course, LMF doesn’t need the facts….he/she has their opinion instead. What a wonderful little nazi you’ll make.
I “know” Wendell and am very familiar with all aspects of his life.
There is one fact that has not been mentioned and that is,the Natchez Trace is a roadway that runs through a national park. The Natchez Trace National Park was submitted to The United States Congress by U.S. Congressman, Honorable Jeff Busby, in about the 1930s.
The Natchez Trace law enforcement unit is by the U. S. Park Rangers and not by the highway patrol. This national park is as much for bikers and others who hike as it is for automobiles.
Yes, it is a national park. And yes, it is intended for means of recreation or travel other than automobiles. However, the last time I checked, even on a bicycle you are bound by certain laws in which you can operate that bike. And I dare say if a law enforcement official sees you riding in the middle of the road, you are about to get a quick lesson in those laws.
Also, bear in mind that something else not mentioned in the story is the location of the accident. She was hit below a hill, one which the SUV had just topped. She also was struck on the driver’s side of the vehicle. The state is saying he left the road and hit her. Funnily enough, the only “evidence” the state has to back up their case is the fact that traces of morphine were found in his toxicology report. Everything is else is pure conjecture on how they feel it “must have happened”.
I know people keep saying “I know Wendell”, but I can assure you, I KNOW him. And I’ll be the first one to say he is far from a saint. However, that has no bearing on the fact of what is going on with this case. I hope that if nothing else, when this trial begins, that people will realise how incredibly simple it is to be indicted by a grand jury with absolutely nothing to give cause other than someone saying you did it.
I travel on the Trace pretty much every day. I know that bicyclists are on the Trace and I make a point to keep a look out for them. But, even armed with this knowledge and experience driving the Trace and having good defensive driving skills (only involved in a couple of minor collisions in over 30 years of driving, with none my fault), I have had a couple of close calls with bicyclists that just about caused me heart failure. One such instance involved a cyclist on one of those tricycle bikes that are low to the ground — I was approaching a slow moving vehicle in my lane and began slowing down myself, when the vehicle suddenly merged into the opposite lane to pass this tricyclist. I could not see the tricycle dude until the moment after the vehicle in front of me moved into that other lane. By the time I saw it, it was almost too late — I nearly did not get stopped —- and I was not driving fast or recklessly. After I got over the shock of nearly killing someone and ruining my life as well, I wanted to slap the shit out of that dumbass on the tricycle for creating that dangerous situation in the first place. Any highway with motor vehicles is NO PLACE for a tricycle bike —period. Trikes are for kiddies in driveways. The other close call involved a bicyclist that came into view suddenly after I crested a blind hill early one morning before the sun had come up —once again, I was not speeding.
Yes, the bicyclists have the “right” to be on the highway. But, the question I ask is this: Is it safe for the bicyclists and the motor vehicles that share the road? Can it be made safe? I have my doubts due to the above referenced incidents I have experienced. A cyclist can be doing everything “right”, and the motorist everything “right”, and it can still be a very dangerous situation.
We don’t allow four wheelers on the Trace or on our state highways. Why? Because they are slower moving than other vehicles, lower to the ground, and thus deemed to pose an unacceptable danger not only to the four wheeler operator, but also to other vehicular traffic on the roadway. So, how is this different from a bicycle? A four wheeler can be operated on a road safely at a much faster speed than the average cyclist can pedal. And a four wheeler is just as high off the ground, wider, and more visible than a bicycle —four wheelers even have lights, including brake lights. So, why is the four wheeler deemed too unsafe to be on the road, while the bicycle/or tricycle is ok? And even with regard to motor vehicles on our highways, we have minimum speed limits. Why? Because it is dangerous to be driving too slow on a roadway where vehicles are legally traveling at speeds at or above 50 mph. Yet, the average cyclist on a roadway is traveling, compared to vehicular traffic, very slow.
I don’t pretend to have all the answers, just raising what I think are legitimate questions and issues. I am not defending or judging the guy who hit the lady cyclist — I don’t have all the facts. I just know from my own vast experience driving the Trace that you can be doing all the defensive driving that you can do and it still may not be enough in some situations involving cyclists.
Thank you “A Friend of the Law.” You well-worded what I was trying to say!!! Hopefully you are the “judge” for this case. Just kidding. Anyway, can’t we build the cyclists a bike trail… just for them? (then there would only be collisions between the cyclists and joggers…haaaa!) Most people who drive the Trace use it like an Interstate (to commute). Can you imagine bicyclists on I-20 or I-75? Hmmmm. I don’t want anyone to get hurt, suffer, or die. But I REALLY don’t want to be the one who accidentally hit a bicyclist. And if they aren’t on the road, then they can’t be hit… right?
Having driven the Trace hundreds of time myself, I don’t understand why the Park Service has not installed bicycle lanes (5 feet of pavement to the right of the car lanes). With cars traveling around 50 mph and bikes traveling around 10 mph, it is unreasonable to think that both can use the same lanes safely.
I enjoy seeing the bikers on the Trace and I can imagine that on a bike it is a wonderful trip, but I always worry about their safety. The Park Service needs to provide dedicted bike lanes on the Trace. Around Jackson there are dedicated bike/jogger/walker lanes.
Does the Trace have a minimum required speed like other highways and byways?
AFOTL has a good point. We don’t say that 4-wheelers “have the right” to use the Trace or any other road. Why do bicyclers?
Also agreed that those trike-bikes should not be allowed off bike paths. Even my gay friends think those are gay. I fell out watching the SpongeBob movie when Squidward was riding one of those things: perfect matchup of character and vehicle.
(Irrelevantly, my favorite line from the flick: “You can’t fool me — *I* listen to public radio!” Why NPR doesn’t sell shirts with that, I don’t know. Irony deficiency I guess.)
I’ve had the same scary experiences on the Trace as AFOTL. At night or very early morning the Trace is not a road, it is a very dark tunnel, as dark as you can imagine. I routinely used it years ago to travel from Jackson to Tupelo. Because of the bikers on the Trace, I began traveling IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD in the flat areas when there was no traffic in an effort to keep a better lookout and hopefully have an edge on dodging one way or another when one would inevitably pop up, especially during those pre-daylight hours. I knew I was risking being stopped for being over the center line, but I determined I should risk it. Had I been Wendell, I still could have hit this woman, we all could have. I know they make flashing lights for bikes, but why do so few people use them?
Flashing lights on bicycles is the law in some states. Is it so in Mississippi, and if it is, is it enforced?
The speed limit on the Natchez Trace Parkway is 50 mph, and it is STRICTLY enforced. I am not sure in regards to flashing lights. I am becoming curious as to how the laws work in regards to things like this in the victim’s home country.
On a side note, I love how the family is suing the car lot that sold him the vehicle. If they win that case, does it set a precedence that I can sue GM or Ford for allowing someone to buy a vehicle from them and hit me with it?
Who owns the car lot? And wasn’t the vehicle titled to that car lot when he was driving it?
The owner of the car lot, A.D. Blount, is Wendell’s brother. The car lot financed the SUV themselves, since it was a replacement vehicle for another Wendell had purchased through them that was involved in another accident roughly two weeks prior to the Trace accident. Funnily enough, the prior vehicle was totaled after being “t-boned” by none other than Jim Earl Aaron himself. You can’t help but laugh at that situation. Of all the people to be involved in a automobile accident, it would be those two.
However, back on point, the paperwork was in Wendell’s name. Since it was such a recent sale, nothing had even had a chance to be sent to Jackson yet. I see your point, mind you. However, That is seriously stretching a technicality in my opinion. But that is all it is…my opinion.
First of all, the law states that a bicycle should ride with the traffic, on the far right hand side of the road (not in the middle of the road). If the cyclist had been on the far right hand side of the road, this accident would not have happened.
The cyclist was wearing solid black clothing. The law states that a cyclist should wear reflective clothing. Why wasn’t she? Didn’t she have an obligation to abide by the rules and the law? Can she blatantly disobey the law/laws just because she is on a bicycle?
If Mr. Blount was impaired why didn’t the Ranger give him a ticket and/or arrest him at the scene? Could it be that the Ranger didn’t think Blount was impaired? Do you really think that you could hit someone on the Natchez Trace and look and act impaired and not get arrested on the spot?
It is my understanding that the Feds went to the state first and asked them to prosecute Mr. Blount. Why did they do that? Why did the state not prosecute the case? Could it be that they didn’t believe there was a case. Something is very strange that they waited so long after it happened before they indicted him? If he was really a danger to someone out here why did they allow him to drive whenever he wanted for all those months? Could it be that they didn’t think it was a danger.
Some have said that he is under house arrest. That is not true. He is to be home between 7pm and 7 am. The rest of the time he can go where he wants. Why do they want to make sure he gets a good night’s rest. He has health problems, so I’m sure that being home at 7 PM is not a problem that he has to deal with. I also doubt that he gets up before 7 AM.
At the bond hearing, the Ranger stated that the person at the state crime lab said that Blount’s morphine level was off the charts, and he would be surprised if he could even walk and talk. Yet the Ranger testified that he talked to Blount, saw him walk, and he could walk and talk. He also stated that Blount understood everything that he said to him. He stated that Blount gave a written statement, and that he didn’t need help writing it.
Where is the problem??
I thought it interesting that Mr. Freeland would publish that his firm got a 6 figure judgment and not say anything else about it. I did a little homework. Mr. Blount had sold a company named Mississippi Durable Medical Equipment, and another company named B-Mec, and another named Medical Concepts. Records of all of this is with the Bankruptcy Courts.
The company that Mr. Blount sold his companies to, a company out of Dallas Texas, made a large customer of Blount mad as soon as they took over. The company owed Blount’s ex companies over $800,000.00. This company was Wes Pac Investors Trust. They are the company that employed the Freeland firm, based on the recommendation of another attorney, at the time.
All that the Freeland’s were doing was drawing up piles of paper, and at a point Wes Pac Investors walked away from it. That was OK as long as Wes Pac was paying the bill. Wes Pac saw that they didn’t have a chance with the attorneys they had, “The Freeland’s”, so they just cut bait and ran, leaving Blount with all the bills, and they had taken the assets.
Blount inherited the Freeland’s or he would have never known them. Blount was also struggling to try and keep out of bankruptcy, and the Freeland’s certainly weren’t helping matters. Blount said that the first time he went to Freeland’s office that Freeland was sitting behind his desk, and old desk, and Freeland was so big that he couldn’t even get up to shake hands. Papers were scattered all over the floor and a Labrador way lying there, and was extremely gassy that day! When Blount asked what had been done all he saw was stacks of paper work. Nothing to help collect the money owed to him. When the Freeland boy mentions “because of Blount’s fraud”, he was talking aobut civil fraud. It is different than criminal fraud. For criminal fraud you go to jail. For civil fruad, it’s like the Freelands were working on the case, but did things that kept Blount from being able to collect his money, that could be civil fraud. Someone not familiair with fraud may think something criminal. That was not the case.
Blount had to hire another attorney to take the case and he did collect a portion of the money for Blount. His fee wasn’t anything like what Freeland charged, and he, as most attorney’s, in my humble opinion, was also a crook. He did manage to get Mr. Blount a portion of his money.
Because of Freeland not being able to collect the money in a timely matter, Blount was forced into bankruptcy. Blount didn’t have any money to pay anyone, so when the Freeland’s filed a suit asking for the case to not be dismissed in bankruptcy Blount didn’t even contest because he didn’t have anything anyway, and their right to file a suit outside of the bankruptcy meant absolutely nothing. What they were given was not a judgment for any amount of money, just the right to try the suit outside of the Bankruptcy Court. Blount didn’t have any money, so needless to say, they were buried under a huge pile of paper work they had generated, and nothing to show for it.
Had Mr. Blount not have inherited this goofy bunch of people, he would have been with real attorney’s from some firm.
Mr. Blount had “NO” reason to even contest the Freeland’s because it meant absolutely nothing to him.
I will be interested to see if this is left in since it tells something about Hal Freeland???
The story submitted about Blount having a hit put on him is wrong too. I don’t know where people get their news. It seems that everything should be checked out before being published.
Jim Earl Aron did not attempt to take out insurance policies on Blount. He did take out several polices, and a hit had already been put on Blount according to Aron, and it was going to happen just as soon as this insurance lady got Blount’s name on a new policy. Aron had polices that had been in effect long enough that if something happened to Blount, even though they were forged, the insurance company would have to pay.
This lady did not go to The Fed’s. She came to Blount and told him that he was going to die. Blount first thought she was just saying that in order to get him to buy insurance from her. Blount called the FBI but since her couldn’t prove that there was a hit man from out of state they said they couldn’t do anything.
Blount was told about a man named Rex Armistead that was a private investigator, and someone that could handle a deal like this. Once before he had already dressed like, and acted like the man that was supposed to have been killed, and when the hit man came Rex killed him.
Blount called Rex and asked him about the case. Rex said that he would handle the case as long as everyone would do as he said. Rex worked it out with the authorities that he would get Blount to sign a new policy, and then once it was done and taken back to Jim Earl, they would arrest him. The lady with the insurance company didn’t want to testify because she was afraid of being killed. At first she said that she would not testify, or have anything to do with it. Her name was Mrs. Linda Fason, a very pretty, and sweet lady. Before Rex knew that she was married he was trying to court her!
Rex put everything together and once Jim Earl got the papers, he and his daughter were arrested. The FBI in Oxford said that since they could not find the hit man from Alabama that they couldn’t charge him for Murder for Hire. His daughter had also forged Blount’s name on some other policies.
For all of that Jim Earl was charged with Insurance Fraud, and his daughter was turned loose so that she could still go to nursing school. Aron server about 6 months in Federal Prison, and was never actually charged with murder for hire. The state could have come back and done it, but it appears that Jim Earl has been a federal snitch for years and can get by with most anything.
The lady and her family had to be put in the witness protection program and can never come back here again. She called several years later to check and see lf Mr. Blount was still alive. She still believe that one day Jim Earl Will kill him too. Blount knows that Jimmy just runs his mouth and tries to scare people. He once told Blount that he was going to his truck to get his gun, and that he was going to blow his da_ _ brains out. Blount showed him that he didn’t have to go to his truck, that he already had want he needed, and Mr. Tough guy stopped. The reason Jimmy Earl is tough is because he has total protection from the Feds.
If he is not charged for the truck that was found in his barn I will do whatever I can to see that he is investigated and charged for the theft of the vehicle. It is a federal crime because it came across state lines. The person that went and got it for him will be glad to talk to the FBI, if there are any in Oxford that can be trusted.
Just recently, a brand new pickup truck was found hidden in the barn that belongs to Jim Earl in Scooby, near Water Valley. He told the sheriff that he had no idea how it got there. Can anyone be so taken up with this man that they would believe something like that? Later, Someone found who the person that Jim Earl had go to Texas and pick it up, and bring it to him. This was reported to the FBI, and as far as I know absolutely nothing has been done about it. This is over the last three months or so, maybe four by now. I’m sure they will wait around until the statute of limitations run out so that he can’t be charged. Why won’t the FBI, or the fine ausa’s in Oxford, do something about the things that this guy does, and gets by with. If this what started all of Blount’s problems? Ever since he reported receiving stolen
equipment, and Jim Earl Aron’s name has come up, it seems that things have been happening to Blount.
The pickup truck is something new, and they know the person that went and picked it up for him, so why don’t they do something? Because it is Jim Earl Aron. If he is not charged for the truck that was found in his barn I will do whatever I can to see that he is investigated and charged for the theft of the vehicle. It is a federal crime because it came across state lines. The person that went and got it for him will be glad to talk to the FBI, if there are any in Oxford that can be trusted.
A few years back Charles Cooner, whom works with Jim Aron, loaded a late model Corvette on a car hauler, along with a few others. The next day he reported the car stolen and collected insurance on the car. An employee gave a statement to that effect, but no one seemed to have any interest at Oxford with the U.S. Attorney’s office. I personally know the person that helped load the car and send it off.
Before Jim Hood ran for office Jim Earl bought and gave to him a late model pickup truck from Mitchell Buick dealership in West Point. What other things did Jim do for him, but more importantly, what did Jim Hood do for him?
There seem to be a covey of crooked people in this area, and what is the Fed’s doing about it? Certain people get caught and charged with most anything. Others, seem not to be able to get caught no matter what they do.
Can’t prove anything, but Hood sure was given a lot of cash from Scruggs, Langston, and the others involved, and best of my memory, the Farrese Law Firm in Ashland also gave a lot of money to the campaign of Jim Hood. I, personally, have heard Tony Farrese say that Hood was a dummy, and was not qualified to be the attorney General. I also heard people a lot closer than that to Hood making fun of him, yet they put in a ton of money to get him elected. Don’t we have a great Attorney General??
It appears that if you go back and see how the attorney’s that Hood had working on the case got the money, it was gotten illegally. It seems that it all should come back and then see if the Governor could find enough honest attorneys and judges to start all over with the case.
I’m really proud to say that we have at least one honest judge that wouldn’t take their bribe money to make an illegal ruling. One judge got almost a million dollars! It seems that the biggest problem we have is our “so called” legal system.
It seems that our Federal Judges still have the integrity they had when appointed. Maybe our state judges should be appointed by the Governor for a life term? It seems to work good for the Federal System.
“Blount’s life of crime” seems very interesting. Why is it a life of crime? I know of over 20 people that are in Federal Prison’s right now, and some for long terms.
In some paper I noticed that they said that Blount worked undercover on one case for the govt.
If you would do your homework instead of just pointing a finger, you might realize that Blount has solved many crimes, and gotten people caught that in no other way may have been caught.
With the construction equipment deal that Blount served about 10 months for, it turned out to be an interesting stay for him at the Federal Prison in Seagoville, TX. Soon after he was there he saw a young man working really hard cleaning the cell of another inmate. He also washed his clothes, polished his shoes, and even cleaned his floors. Blount made the remark to another inmate and the inmate just laughed at him. He told Blount that the young kid did it for payment in dope.
Blount kept watching and saw quite a bit of that going on. One day at the visitation room Blount was in the dressing room with just an officer, and Blount told him who he should be watching. He asked Blount if he would be willing to talk to the Lieutenant about it. Blount said, “sure”. Later that day Blount met with the Lieutenant. The Lieutenant wanted Blount to mail him notes about what he saw, who, and when. He didn’t tell Blount the maid man, he wanted to know if Blount could find out on his own.
Blount started passing notes, and pretty soon the main person that had been bringing in heroin into the prison for years came up. The Lieutenant had Blount paged to his office. His name was Lieutenant Secrease. By this time Blount had already found out a lot more than they expected. At this meeting was also the FBI. They knew it would be extremely dangerous, but they asked Blount if he would wear a wire and record everything said. Blount agreed without hesitation. They explained the danger, and Blount asked if he could involve his closest friend, and after much talk, and talking with him, they agreed. This guy was in for putting up money to buy drugs for someone else. He literally hates drugs and would do anything to stop them. He was to watch Blount’s back, because if you are found snitching on anyone, for any reason, you are dead.
Blount wore the wires, and the mic was in his left front shirt pocket, and one of the ones getting busted continually was punching Blount in the pocket. He never noticed it. At that time there were no digital recorders, so the recorders were bulky compared to today. Everything was gotten on tape and they were busted, along with others, and Blount was taken off the compound immediately. Blount was kept there in what they call the hold for a couple, of three weeks. It was a new building that was just built, and had really large rooms. Blount had a private large room, with a telephone available to him all the time.
Later he was transferred to Texarkana, TX. He was given a job where he didn’t have to do anything. The officer there said you don’t have much time, so just do what you want. Pretty soon someone that was involved with the people that got busted in Seagoville got transferred to Texarkana by mistake. They immediately took Blount off the compound and stuck him in the hole. There, it was really a hole. In a few days an officer came and hollered for Blount to get his clothes, you’re going home. Blount had no idea he was getting out at that time, but they let him go because of the others that were there on the compound.
This was actually the first case that Blount had worked for the Feds
One paper mentioned that he had worked one money laundering case. If they only knew. First was Brian Keeth Thomas. He owned Pop’s Gun and Pawn in Philadelphia. Wendell knew nothing about him other than he had screwed one of his friends out of a bull dozer. Blount called his friend at U. S. Customs In Jackson, Mississippi. He told Blount to just keep his eyes open and to watch him.
Blount told his friend, Gaston Barrett, from there in Philadelphia what they said, and he said that he was wasting his time, that they wouldn’t do anything about it, but Blount told him that there had to be more to him that met the eye. He could just feel that the Fed’s wanted him. Blount tried to figure what he could buy to do business with this guy. He came up with buying two tractor loads of mirror’s, and was going to sell them all with Keith.
In the mean time, Keith was getting excited about doing business with Blount. They started talking about kilo’s of cocaine, and thousands of pounds of marijuana. Thomas has several places across the sate of TN, that he wanted drops made.
In the mean time Blount kept talking to him about hauling drugs for him, and Keith told him how much he was moving.
Thomas was also really interested in laundering 12 million dollars worth of cash for Blount. They put that deal together pretty fast. Thomas would buy different products with cash, and let’s say that he bought a product for $25 cash, and it sold for $250 cash, they would show the $225 profit and get the cash back into circulation. He said he could have it cleaned up in 30 days. Sounded like a good deal to Blount.
When the bust finally came down Blount was at the pawn shop, and other agents met Keith, at the airport to bring him down. He had a partner named Sammy Leach, and Sammy was busted at the pawn shop.
The FBI, ATF, and IRS had been trying to get this guy for over ten years, and I didn’t know that until the bust was made. There were agents from all over Florida there for the bust, as well from Louisiana, Ms, and I don’t know where all.
This guy had killed a govt. witness several years ago, and people really wanted him caught. They had him one time, but just before court the only witness was shot and killed. Bobby Smith was ran down and shot with Buck Shot, and should be dead today. He was tough was the only thing that saved him. It is known that Thomas killed Johnson because a witness saw him do it, and they will testify. He is serving a 121 month sentence, but needs to get the murder sentence before he gets out.
It is also known that he is the one that killed Bud Miles, the county sheriff there during that time.
Thomas had put two contracts on Blount to have him killed that we know of. I think it is commendable that each time U.S. Customs made sure it didn’t happen.
Thomas has already tried to kill Bobby Smith because his partner said to. When he gets out, Bobby Smith may be his first stop. Right now he is in prison, exactly where he belongs for a long time. All of the different agencies did a really good job once they were brought back together.
Now, there is nothing whatsoever to keep the state form coming in and prosecuting the person that blew half of Bobby’s arm off and tried to kill him. The person driving the vehicle has alreay given a sworn statement that it happened that way. Bobby walks around with about half of his left arem and just lucky to be alive. Why can’t a state agency do their job??
Jim Hood tried people that committed crimes 30 years ago and more, and won. Why won’t he try Keigh Thomas for attampting Murder for Bobby Smith. Those of you that know Bobby should call Jim Hood’s office until you get him, and tell him that you would like to see him try Keigh Thomas for attempted murder on Bobby Smith, and for murder on Bobby Johnson. Sammy Leach gave sworn statements about both of them. Why don’t someone do something for Bobby?????
I know for a fact that the Fed’s laid the case in the D.A.’s lap, and so far absolutely nothing has been done. What can be more important than attempted murder, and murder??????Start calling somsone now, and don’t let them tell you they have no witness, or sworn statements. Keith Thomas also forged the will that leaves what Bud Milis, the ex sheriff of Newton County, would have been leaving to him childran. They killed Bud just to take what he had.
From Keith Thomas,Blount found that the world is full of people like that.
Blount started working on a Mexican down in south TX. He had been in prison with Blount’s friend, and
Blount had met several people of his own. One that Blount had met was a white guy just off the gulf coast at Lucedale, Ms. His name was D.R., and he dealt in just about any kind of drugs known to man. Blount met this guy through a guy he met in prison while serving time for IRS reporting procedures, a crime which he did not do. His brother was willing to lie about what happened for one of several reasons. Blount had a lift chair plant that had made millions of dollars. His brother wanted him gone and out of the way so that he could make the business big for him. Whatever the reason, the brother has agreed to testify against Blount and that he knew the equipment was stolen when he bought it. The brother was not involved in the deal, and he didn’t know anything about it, up to a point. When the last two bull dozers came in he have the check for them just like Blount did for the first load. The FBI threatened to indict him if he didn’t testify under oath that the equipment was stolen before he bought it. Fine Deacon! He lied, yet he’s still deacon at the church. Blount did not know the equipment was stolen when he got it. That is the ABSOLUTE TRUTH! Blount passed that on a polygraph test.
Blount first started working heavy on D.R. Blount met him through a dope thug in prison. D.R. was looking for better suppliers that could supply him with much more than he was getting at the time. Blount told him about a couple of people that had what he was looking for and that was what D. R. Needed to really get back rolling. D. R. already had some tractor rigs, so he was moving large quantities already.
Blount kept working with him, and later hooked him up with a Mexican that could give him as much as he wanted to move. Blount got them together and D.R. started getting, loading, and hauling dope in large loads in his trucks. Blount had dope brought in to him and that made it easy when he wanted to put together some deals with him.
Blount got D.R. to take 100 pounds of good marijuana for payment for the tractor that Duran had gotten to move his dope with. Blount brought the dope to D.R. and down the road about two miles the Louisiana State Police stopped the truck and it had 100 pounds of weed, meth, and all kind of different pain pills.
Because of D.R., Blount was able to get in good with Efrain Duran. He got Duran to get 3000 pounds from across the Rio Grande, and it had been bagged and packed. 100 pounds of that was what paid for the tractor rig that I found Duran. It is also what caused D.R. and about a dozen more people to be busted.
Duran had the 3000 pounds in his house, and since I had seen it they got a warrant and busted him and his partner with the 3000 pounds.
Before the 3000 pound bust could happen there had to be a small deal done with Efrain so that he would know that Blount wasn’t a narcotic agent. The govt. can never let drugs hit the streets. That’s why they first sell a small amount to make sure that they are not going to get busted with the large amount.
All of these guys have been busted, and I can only begin to touch the ones Mr. Blount has done through the last 10 years. If you have been looking down on this guy you really need to stop and think that he just may have stopped someone from getting drugs of some kind to your son or daughter.
I am glad that there is someone out there that I willing to put his life on the line without a thought, to maybe keep my son or my daughter off drugs. He could be responsible for my daughter being alive right now.
Sorry to respond to such an old thread. However, I feel the need to respond to the many comments here questioning whether bikes and cars can ever be driving safely on the same road.
Here in the Netherlands, cars and bikes constantly drive on the same road (we have more bikes than inhabitants:P). That results in 7.7 traffic fatalities per 1 billion vehicle kilometers.
Compare that to 12.3 and 8.5 in the USA and it seems like bicycle prevalence makes traffic safer, not more dangerous.
Nevertheless, 10 years in prison for an accident seems a bit harsh to me…
Y’all wouldn’t have such a hard time with bicycles if you just plain slowed down some. The Trace is not an interstate highway. Take it easy, enjoy the view, and let go of your hurry, fear, and worry.
And if you think passing bicyclists makes *you* nervous when you’re the driver of car, you ought to try riding a bike sometime when people are passing you too close and too damn fast.
Aside from the cars that are in such a huge hurry to get out of their plush, air conditioned, music-playing seats, you might also find that bicycling is a fine time.
I’m confused, if my comment I just posted says “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” before it shows up, then how did offensive, murderous, downright evil trash like this ever get posted?
“If someone is STUPID enough to ride thier bicycle down the middle of the road, then maybe the SHOULD get hit. By riding down the middle of the road, the lady was asking for it!” – them’s fightin’ words, RFox. Try saying that to the lady’s family’s faces. Dutch folks are nice, so they’d probably just be confused, but try saying that to one of your neighbors whose family member was just killed by a reckless, negligent car driver.