Former lawyer Zach Scruggs arrested again

Published 11:28 pm Sunday, March 1, 2009

OXFORD (AP) — Zach Scruggs, the 34-year-old son of once legendary civil lawsuit attorney Richard ‘‘Dickie’’ Scruggs, has been arrested for allegedly violating conditions of his release from a federal prison to a halfway house in Tupelo.

Scruggs, a former lawyer, had served six months of a 14-month federal sentence in a judicial bribery scandal that included his father and others.

He was released from a prison in Forrest City, Ark., on Tuesday, but arrested Friday after the federal Bureau of Prisons issued a warrant.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Norman said Scruggs arrived at the halfway house late.

Scruggs pleaded guilty in March to withholding information about the judicial bribery scheme in which Dickie Scruggs attempted to bribe Lafayette County Circuit Judge Henry Lackey.

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