Stop Memphis and save DeSoto — that’s the message coming out of the District Attorney’s office in North Mississippi.
Newly-elected DeSoto County DA Matthew Barton sent quite a strong message Tuesday by locking up a Memphis criminal who shot at a police officer in Southaven last March.
“We had three criminals from Memphis that decided they wanted to steal a car,” Barton said, according to the Daily Memphian. “They rode around in Memphis looking for a car, and when they didn’t find one, they went to Southaven.”The criminal, Kyle Dodson 21, was found guilty by a jury of ambushing a Southaven cop while stealing a car.
The DA’s office refused to give the young criminal a plea deal.
“It was important for me to set the tone for this administration and this county,” he said. “I was elected to do what I said I would do and that’s to stop Memphis and save DeSoto, so I took the first chance I got.”
The tough-on-crime DA is pushing for a life sentence as a punishment to fit Dodson’s crime.Barton added: “My message is this — if you’re coming from Memphis, and you come to Mississippi to commit a crime, we’re not sending you back to Memphis. We’re sending you to Parchman prison.”
