DeSoto County judge returns to bench for the first time since arrest

DESOTO COUNTY, Miss. — A DeSoto County judge returned to the bench on Monday for the first time since her DUI arrest.

Judge Karen Sanders was taken into custody after she was stopped by a Hernando Police officer on West Valley in Hernando on Dec. 6.

WREG obtained Hernando Police body camera footage that captured moments before DeSoto County Justice Judge Karen Sanders was arrested.

The officer approaches Sanders’s white Escalade after initiating a traffic stop. The officer says the driver stopped in the middle of the road, then drove into some grass. Sanders is seen behind the wheel, with a second woman in the passenger seat…

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