HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - Twelfth Circuit Court District Attorney Patricia Burchell says Forrest County grand juries have charged seven people with misdemeanors in Hattiesburg's two mayoral elections last year.
Burchell tells WDAM-TV (http://bit.ly/1wfXFiY ) that she cannot say who was indicted because the people have not been served with the indictments.
She said in a news release that she also cannot give any specifics about the charges.
Mayor Johnny DuPree won a fourth term after two elections against former City Councilman Dave Ware. The first was thrown out because of vote-counting problems. Many of Ware's supporters alleged irregularities in the second, as well.
Burchell says grand juries sitting in January and July considered evidence in the two elections.
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