Mayor George Flaggs Jr. got his revenge Friday night.

Flaggs was the target of the first celebrity roast for the Randy J. Naylor Memorial Foundation in 2015. One of his roasters was Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace.

Friday night, it was Pace’s turn to face the barbs and Flaggs delivered with an arrest warrant, charging Pace, who is in his fifth term as sheriff, with “intimidating voters.”

He also dropped a surprise on the crowd by announcing the city will allocate $5,000 toward the foundation.

“You’ll have to forgive me, sheriff,” Flaggs said as he read the warrant. “This was brought up by the people who ran against you for sheriff.”

Flaggs was one of several roasters to zing Pace as he sat at the head table Friday night at The Bluffs.

Roast master Marvin Hunter, a Vicksburg native who works as a comedian in Atlanta, started the barbs with a few comments about the state of the Warren County Jail.

“I don’t know how much you paid to use this place, but we could have this at one of the pods in the jail,” he said. “Some of them are empty. They have escape plans in the jumpsuits.”

He also took a shot at Pace’s “old raggity Crown Vic. You ought to use that as a jail. At least the locks work.”

Flaggs also weighed in on Pace’s job, telling the estimated 100 people, “This man never sleeps. He goes to more funerals, more accidents and he’s in on more criminal cases than anyone I know.”

Fannie Tonth, Randy Naylor Jr.’s mother-in-law and a former Vicksburg police officer, said she at first wondered how she could roast someone “who had no skeletons in their closet,” but made several comments about Pace’s height, recalling the time he was scheduled with her to talk to an elementary school class and a substitute teacher thought he was a member of her second grade class and disciplined him several times for standing at the front of the line for recess.

“Martin got mad and said he wouldn’t speak to her class,” Tonth said. “I talked to the class, and as I was leaving the teacher handed me a discipline note to take to the office. I looked down and the name she put on there was Martin Pace.”

She said Randy Naylor Sr. was the shortest officer in the police department, adding any time anyone asked how tall they had to be to be a Vicksburg police officer, they’d bring Randy out and say, “this tall.”

Naylor, she said, got upset and told his bosses “to bring out Martin Pace, I’ve got that sucker by at least an inch-and-a-half.”

Tonth’s comments, like Flaggs’, ended with commendation for Pace and his character.

“You are a man I have always respected,” Flaggs said. “You have always performed with professionalism and integrity. You have always worked with people in a respectful and dignified way.”

He also commended the foundation, saying, “I grew up with Randy Naylor. You couldn’t have named an organization, with all the commitment and pride you have, after no better a man than Randy Naylor.”