Mississippi prison guard arrested after 10 pounds of meth seized during traffic stop

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An Alabama man employed at a Mississippi prison faces aggravated drug trafficking charges after deputies seized 10 pounds of suspected methamphetamine during an overnight traffic stop on Interstate 10, authorities said.

Just after 1 a.m. Monday, a Harrison County Sheriff’s deputy pulled over a blue Ford Expedition for a traffic violation near Mile Marker 43 in Biloxi. The driver, identified as 45-year-old Taurus Bush of Alabama, presented both his driver’s license and a correctional officer ID card from the East Mississippi Correctional Facility…

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