Supervisors may oppose Palmertree early release

Published 10:17 am Monday, February 15, 2016

The Warren County Board of Supervisors at its meeting Tuesday will consider drafting a letter to the State Parole Board objecting to early release of former Warren County Circuit Clerk Shelly Ashley Palmertree.

Palmertree is presently serving a five-year prison sentence in the Central Mississippi Satellite Facility for women in Flowood for embezzling $12,000 from her office’s civil and criminal accounts in 2012.

She pleaded guilty on March 30, 2015, to stealing an additional $103,736.75 meant for restitution of crime victims from an account under her care between Jan. 1, 2013, until supervisors removed her from office May 15, 2014, after the state’s auditor’s investigators turned up evidence she had declared residence in Madison in 2013.

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Palmertree was sentenced to an additional five years on the second theft, to be served with the first sentence.

In other business, the supervisors will also consider advertising for bids on two county bridge projects — the Old Highway 27 bridge replacement project at Simmons Road and the Fisher Ferry Road bridge stabilization project.

The supervisors meet Tuesday at 9 a.m. in the Warren County Courthouse. The meeting, typically scheduled on Mondays, was moved to Tuesday because of Presidents’ Day.