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October 2016 A former Columbus police officer named as a defendant in a federal wrongful death lawsuit is now wearing a badge in Starkville.
Mayor Parker Wiseman introduced Garrett Mittan to the board of aldermen Tuesday as a new Starkville Police Department officer. Mittan, who worked for nearly three years for CPD, is accused in a lawsuit brought by the estate of Ricky Ball last week in the U.S. District Court of Northern Mississippi of planting a weapon at the scene of the October 2015 officer-involved shooting that claimed Ball's life.