The mayor of Booneville, Mississippi has been arrested after allegedly striking a teenager during an altercation regarding a dirt bike.
Highlights
- Mayor Chris Lindley was booked into the jail on the misdemeanor charge of simple assault on a minor.
- He received a $3,000 bond.
- A sheriff’s deputy who arrived on the scene said Lindley did, in fact, call the police about the dirt bike.
- A prosecutor and two justice court judges have already recused themselves from the investigation.
- The teen owner of the bike said that it was his and that he would move it.
- The teen said in his statement that while moving the bike, the mayor shoved him over.