WATER VALLEY — A stolen camper connected to fugitive Sam Seymore has been recovered by the Yalobusha County Sheriff's Department, adding another chapter to the monthlong manhunt that ended with his capture on Aug. 4.
Yalobusha County Sheriff Jerimaine Gooch said the camper was hidden deep in the woods on private land bordering the Holly Springs National Forest near Tillatoba. It had been pulled several hundred yards down a four-wheeler trail and had to be backed out.
Chief Deputy Thomas West said the discovery came while deputies were checking locations where Seymore was known to hide.
"We were using a drone when we spotted it," West told the North Mississippi Herald.
The camper was reported stolen earlier this summer from a hunting camp on County Road 70, the same theft that also involved a boat and led to some of Seymore's current charges.
Tallahatchie County Sheriff Jimmy Fly told The Sun-Sentinel that Seymore was caught after falling through a ceiling at his mother's home on Highway 35 south of Charleston, landing in a bedroom and bolting out the back door before U.S. marshals used a Taser to subdue him.
