- Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owen’s office and business raided
- Officials have not revealed the reason for Wednesday’s searches.
The FBI has raided several properties used by a Mississippi district attorney.
Hinds County Democratic District Attorney Jody Owen’s office was raided Wednesday, as was Downtown Cigar Company, a tobacco shop and lounge he owned in Jackson, according to Idaho News.
Officials have not revealed the reason for the searches.
FBI spokesperson Marsay Lawson said in a statement: “The FBI is executing federal search warrants at multiple locations.
‘The affidavit supporting the search warrants has been sealed by the court, so I am prohibited from commenting further. “There is no threat to public safety,”
Hinds County Democratic District Attorney Jody Owen’s office was raided Wednesday
The Hinds County District Attorney’s Office said in its own statement that it was cooperating fully with the investigation.
The office added that it is “fully operational and continuing its work on behalf of the citizens of Hinds County.”
“That has been and will continue to be our main goal.”
Owens was elected in 2019 and re-elected in 2023.
In 2022, he was accused of threatening a man with a gun inside the apartment of his chief of staff, Samantha Grant.
Owens was accused of having a relationship with Grant.
Also searched was the Downtown Cigar Company, a tobacco shop and lounge Owen owns in Jackson.
He has denied all accusations.
The George-Soros-funded prosecutor ran on a platform that promised alternatives to incarceration.
He oversaw a record number of murders in Jackson in 2021, he reported cnn.
