MBJ: MDOT chief arrested for public drunk

The Biloxi Police Department confirmed to the Mississippi Business Journal that a Larry L. Brown, Sr., 67, was arrested at the Beau Rivage Resort at 6 a.m. Friday and charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct.

That’s the same name and age as Mississippi Department of Transportation Executive Director “Butch” Brown.

Reached on his cell phone Friday afternoon, Brown confirmed that he had “just left” the Beau Rivage. He said he had attended a planning session and had spoken to a group of economic developers.

Brown denied, however, that he had been arrested. “I haven’t been involved in anything drunk or disorderly,” he said.

A mugshot provided to the Mississippi Business Journal by the Harrison County Jail appears to be Brown, based on a photo of Brown on www.transportation.org, the website for AASHTO, a non-profit, non-partisan association that represents highway and transportation departments in the U.S. Brown is the president of AASHTO.

Calls to the Beau Rivage were not immediately returned.

Mississippi Business Journal