SOUTHAVEN -- A northern Mississippi coroner is facing charges of selling fake funeral plans.
News outlets report that Grenada County Coroner Eddie "Skeeter" Robinson has been indicted in DeSoto County on two counts of insurance fraud and one count each of wire fraud, false pretense, embezzlement and conspiracy.
The 51-year-old Robinson did not immediately respond to messages left Wednesday at his business, Skeeter Robinson Funeral Home.
The indictment says that between 2011 and 2014, Robinson
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