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5 pardoned can't be found
By clarionledger.com - Jessica Bakeman
Published: 01/13/2012

Four murderers and one robber that former Gov. Haley Barbour pardoned last week are likely to return to prison, but officials from the attorney general's office were still searching for them Thursday night.

None of the five men, all of whom worked as trusties in the Governor's Mansion - David Gatlin, Charles Hooker, Anthony McCray, Joseph Ozment and Nathan Kern - met a crucial deadline required for receiving a pardon a week ago today.

They are among 208 prisoners Barbour granted clemency days before he left office on Tuesday. Barbour maintains he pardoned many who already had been released so that they could obtain employment.

Barbour's actions have sparked outrage and attracted national attention.

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