MOSS POINT — Moss Point Chief Art McClung has been suspended without pay, pending an investigation into a report that McClung was pulled over for speeding and yet was not cited, even after he told Pascagoula officers he’d had “at least three vodkas.”
The Sun Herald reports that the city’s mayor and Board of Aldermen voted in favor of the suspension during a special meeting Tuesday evening.
The newspaper had reported earlier this week that McClung was clocked going 109 mph in a city vehicle July 29 but no report was filed. Instead, officers drove McClung home.
McClung says he was not impaired.
Pascagoula Police Chief Kenny Johnson says he directed officers to drive McClung home “out of an abundance of caution.” He says not everybody who gets pulled over gets charged.
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