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WLOX anchor arrested in drug case (Mississippi)
Sun Herald ^ | Oct 24, 2008 | ROBIN FITZGERALD

Posted on 10/24/2008 10:38:43 AM PDT by Islander7



GULFPORT -- WLOX-TV reporter and weekend anchor Toni Miles has been arrested with three others on felony drug charges.

Gulfport police officials said Miles, 32, and three men were arrested in a multi-agency raid with a search warrant at a home on Quincy Avenue. She is charged with possession of cocaine.

Gulfport police said they seized about three grams of cocaine and about five grams of methamphetamine in the search.

Also arrested are Jonathan Chase Cullifer, 28, Ronnie Wayne Blacklidge Jr., 36, both of Gulfport, and Joseph Glenn Mathis, 35, of Daphne, Ala.

Cullifer is charged with possession of meth with intent to distribute. Blacklidge and Mathis are both charged with possession of cocaine.

Police said the four were taken this morning to the Harrison County jail, where they are being booked on felony charges. Bonds are set at $100,000 for Cullifer and $50,000 each for Miles, Blacklidge and Mathis.

The Sun Herald updates this story in Saturday's editions.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrat; liberal; media; mississippi
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.........and another one bites the dust!
1 posted on 10/24/2008 10:38:46 AM PDT by Islander7
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To: WKB; wardaddy; Downsouth55; Michael Knight; ejonesie22; bkwells; DogwoodSouth; WileyPink; jmax; ...

Mississippi PING!



2 posted on 10/24/2008 10:39:43 AM PDT by Islander7 (This Atlas is shrugging! ~ I am Joe!)
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To: Islander7

She’s not guilty....


3 posted on 10/24/2008 10:40:51 AM PDT by llevrok (Milton Friedman! Please come home!!!)
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To: Islander7

That’s the ABC affiliate.


4 posted on 10/24/2008 10:41:01 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: llevrok

Check back with her after a few years of coke abuse.


5 posted on 10/24/2008 10:42:05 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: Islander7

She’ll be on the Jello-wrestling circuit soon.


6 posted on 10/24/2008 10:42:23 AM PDT by paddles
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To: Islander7

She doesn’t look guilty at all.

All kidding aside Meth makes people go crazy. They have no grasp on reality. I know two local attorneys who threw away promising legal careers to chase meth.


7 posted on 10/24/2008 10:42:45 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (My 401K is in precious metals. Lead, Brass and Blued Steel.)
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To: CholeraJoe

There was one here, too, that did his career in......


8 posted on 10/24/2008 10:44:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (My wallet is made out of depleted you-owe-mium........)
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To: Islander7

Toni Miles joined the WLOX News Team in December of 2001. She is now a WLOX News Weekend co-anchor with Krystal Allan. Toni still reports and shoots, and enjoys her time out “in-the-field.”

Toni worked as a reporter at two other South Mississippi TV News stations before she began her career at WLOX. She also worked as the Public Relations Director for the Salvation Army in Gulfport.

Toni graduated magna cum laude from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, where she was named the school’s 1999 Outstanding Broadcast Journalism Student. She also captured the First Place award for Spot News Reporting in the 1998 Southeastern Journalism Competition in Mobile, Ala.

After graduating from Southern, Toni worked as an intern on Capitol Hill for Senator Trent Lott. But the Magnolia State beckoned her back from the Beltway.

Toni considers herself blessed because she has the opportunity to get paid for what she loves to do, and has the chance to learn something new everyday. She also enjoys learning about, and telling, the stories of the unique people who live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Toni loves to write, and uses her gift for creativity for many projects outside of work.

Toni is a competitive runner, which often comes in handy when covering a spot news story.

She has a blind Boston Terrier named Buster, who conned her into adopting him by licking her while she was holding him for a Pet of the Week video at WLOX.


9 posted on 10/24/2008 10:45:07 AM PDT by John W (Maverick I can do, but, Messiah is above my paygrade)
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To: Islander7

10 posted on 10/24/2008 10:46:11 AM PDT by Selmore (I love you today more than yesterday,.....cause yesterday you really pis$ed me off.)
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To: CholeraJoe

well... that’s a better life than being a lawyer!


11 posted on 10/24/2008 10:47:26 AM PDT by craqed (identity theft should be like Highlander... There can be only one!)
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To: llevrok

I have zero respect for cokeheads or methheads. She is guilty as hell.


12 posted on 10/24/2008 10:52:06 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Islander7
She can use the Pete Townsend defense.

"oh, I was working on a story."

13 posted on 10/24/2008 10:52:46 AM PDT by Selmore (I love you today more than yesterday,.....cause yesterday you really pis$ed me off.)
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To: Islander7

Is there a course in jourwhoralism school in drug abuse? There certainly seem to be any number of drug-addled reporters and editors out there!


14 posted on 10/24/2008 10:56:08 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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"Toni still reports and shoots, and enjoys her time out “in-the-field.”

No doubt, she does.

15 posted on 10/24/2008 10:59:01 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Islander7
Gulfport police officials said Miles, 32, and three men were arrested in a multi-agency raid with a search warrant at a home on Quincy Avenue.

A multi-agency raid?
For three grams of coke and five grams of Meth?

I certainly hope they expected to find more than that.

I can go out any day and find multiple people holding much more than that.

16 posted on 10/24/2008 11:01:16 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Islander7

Good looks plus a taste for drugs means a future in porn.


17 posted on 10/24/2008 11:05:26 AM PDT by chopperman
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To: John W
Toni is a competitive runner, which often comes in handy when covering a spot news story.

But not enough to outrun The Man. Heh, heh.

Guilty!

18 posted on 10/24/2008 11:31:59 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Islander7
LOL, WLOX has her JOB up already!

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Reporter/Photographer-WLOX

  WLOX-TV  
 

Shoot and report local news

WLOX-TV, Biloxi, MS, ABC affiliate has an immediate opening for a full-time Reporter/Photographer. Candidate must possess the ability to anchor live newscasts, shoot, edit, and write news stories. The applicant must have excellent knowledge of how to create stories using visual and written skills. Also must be able to work independently and under deadline pressures.

Skill:
Applicant must be familiar with DVC equipment, shoot and edit stories. Also must be able to communicate well with other reporters and producers.


19 posted on 10/24/2008 11:40:24 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Islander7

I’d give her probation, and release her into 24 custody (mine of course)


20 posted on 10/24/2008 11:45:32 AM PDT by isom35
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