C.J. LeMaster

LEFT IN LIMBO: A year-long @WLBT investigation finds the @VicksburgPD failed to send 121+ felony cases to the DA's office, leaving cases stalled & families without justice. City officials only acknowledged the problem after we started digging. A thread. /1

@JimAtTheRez @WLBT @JacksonMSPolice No, but the absence of that information at this point in the investigation isn't unusual. Perhaps the fact that he left the scene played into their assessment. We'll keep digging.

Hey @WLBT @CJLeMaster, if this was intentional as stated, do we know why? Has the @JacksonMSPolice released that yet?

Our full investigation can be found here: wlbt.com/2026/03/06/3-y… /10

Thompson says the city needs better technology and tracking systems to prevent this from happening again. But for families like C.J. Woodland’s, the damage is already done. He was killed three years ago. The trial for the men accused in his killing begins in June. /9

LEFT IN LIMBO: A year-long @WLBT investigation finds the @VicksburgPD failed to send 121+ felony cases to the DA's office, leaving cases stalled & families without justice. City officials only acknowledged the problem after we started digging. A thread. /1

@jscarter21 @alldspeed Vicksburg's police chief.

@alldspeed @CJLeMaster Who was avoiding CJ?

"I will do an interview but only if the reporter is not @CJLeMaster" lmao

@alldspeed She told my bosses I was unprofessional after I held them accountable for not talking to us on camera. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@JoelCarterMS How much confidence do you have in your former colleague to address the problem?

It’s time to solve the Jackson water crisis once and for all. We are not a third world Country and people deserve clean drinking water and working sewer.

@T3chap @UMMCnews No conclusion. Just context.

@CJLeMaster @UMMCnews What is your conclusion?

@ChiefB_CvillePD Congratulations on being named JPD chief! Looking forward to meeting and working with you.

@MorgB_Gorg Feel better soon!

My head is killing me.

In other words, take the numbers you're hearing with a grain of salt and know that the real problem -- especially in north Mississippi -- could be far worse than is being reported, because we simply don't have access to all of that information. /4 #WinterWeather #wlbt

That's because seventeen utilities in those areas aren't tracked by the website. In other words, we don't know whether 171,005 homes and businesses in the state are impacted. That translates into almost half a million people in the state whose status we really don't know. /3

THREAD: For a second day, power outages across MS hover around 10%. 1 in 10 homes is without electricity. Those numbers don't illustrate total residents affected. Accounting for avg household size, we're talking 360,000+ Mississippians. Source: poweroutage.us /1