Mississippi Tea Party leader found dead in apparent suicide
Mark Mayfield, a Tea Party official and member of the board of directors for the Central Mississippi Tea Party, was found dead in an apparent suicide Friday morning, TPM reports.
Mayfield was arrested in May and charged with conspiracy after he allegedly directed a political blogger to break into a nursing home in order to photograph Cochran's ailing wife. The photo was apparently planned to be used in an anti-Cochran video.
Mayfield's case was scheduled to be held before a grand jury in July.
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