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The People Have Spoken
Dear Litigation Diary — the people have spoken. FoFo is indeed, by a matter of public opinion, a MOFO.
On March 3, 2026, during Citizen Comments at the Biloxi City Council Meeting, Council President Kenny Glavan repeatedly interrupted Yuri Petrini and demanded—with threat of removal—that he stop referring to public officials as “criminals” and “Dixie Mafia.”
In response, Biloxi Politics Uncensored—the largest independent political page in the city with 7,900+ followers—ran a public poll asking whether Petrini should paint “FoFo is a MOFO” in big red letters on his building on Division Street as a First Amendment protest against the Mayor’s anti-American behavior toward free speech.
As one commenter put it: “If they can’t handle criticism, they don’t need to be in office.”
Another suggested an upgrade: “Could it go FAFO FOFO IS A MOFO?”
Under Biloxi’s own Land Development Ordinance, “a notice sign that contains no commercial message” is allowed without a sign permit. The U.S. Constitution agrees. Frederick Douglass said it best: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
The people of Biloxi have spoken. Eighty-five percent of them.
Alprazolam is a Schedule IV controlled substance marketed under the brand name Xanax. The FDA requires a black box warning on every bottle. The warning states, in language that leaves no room for interpretation, that the drug impairs judgment, impairs cognitive function, diminishes impulse control, and makes it unsafe to operate a motor vehicle.
Multiple confidential sources within City of Biloxi operations have independently confirmed to this publication that Jerry Creel—Building Official, Director of Community Development, Code Enforcement Director, Secretary to the Board of Adjustments and Appeals, and Historic Preservation Officer—regularly uses Xanax.
And some may ask—how is that a big deal? Let me tell you fucking why, dear reader.
Jerry Creel is the man who decides whether you can build on your own property. Whether your home meets code. Whether you face criminal charges for a permit violation. Whether armed police show up at your door to deliver a single piece of paper.
He makes those decisions on Xanax.
The Vehicle
Every night, a Ford Explorer Police Interceptor—government plate G 93022—is parked at a private residence at 163 Peter Street in Biloxi. It is a taxpayer-funded vehicle assigned to Jerry Creel.
A Police Interceptor is not a Honda Civic. It is an upfitted law enforcement platform—heavy, fast, and capable of significant damage. It weighs over 5,000 pounds. It is designed to pursue and intercept other vehicles at high speed. The City of Biloxi puts Jerry Creel behind the wheel of this machine every day.
Alprazolam has an active impairment window of four to six hours per dose. In chronic users, residual cognitive effects extend significantly longer. The drug's half-life is 11.2 hours, meaning that even twelve hours after a dose, half the drug remains active in the bloodstream.
If Jerry Creel takes Xanax in the evening and drives that Police Interceptor the next morning, he is driving impaired on public roads in a government vehicle. If he takes it in the morning and drives to your property to issue a stop work order, he is making enforcement decisions while chemically impaired.
Here is a question for the City of Biloxi: Does the City maintain a drug testing policy for employees who operate municipal vehicles?
If so, has Jerry Creel ever been tested?
If not, why is the City putting an untested employee behind the wheel of a Police Interceptor every night?
The Clinical Profile
Chronic use of alprazolam is clinically associated with a specific constellation of behavioral effects. These are not side effects that appear in rare cases. They are well-documented, widely published, and acknowledged by the manufacturer, the FDA, and every psychiatric reference text in print.
The clinical profile includes:
Disinhibition. The reduction of normal behavioral restraints. Chronic users do things they would not otherwise do—escalate situations unnecessarily, make aggressive decisions, act on impulse rather than judgment.
Distorted risk assessment. The inability to accurately evaluate whether an action is proportionate to the situation. A minor code issue becomes a criminal prosecution. A $97 permit dispute becomes a $250,000 legal catastrophe.
Emotional volatility. Rapid mood shifts, irritability, irrational anger. The kind of temperament that sends armed police to a residential property to deliver a single document.
Paranoid ideation. Suspicion and surveillance behavior directed at individuals perceived as threats. The kind of mindset that drives a man to photograph a citizen's wife at her workplace while the citizen is out of state.
Severely impaired decision-making. The inability to evaluate consequences before acting. The kind of judgment that files four criminal affidavits on a man three days out of eye surgery, then sends him a casual email about paperwork thirty minutes later.
Read that list again.
Now read our previous reporting on Jerry Creel.
The match is not incidental. It is clinical.
Our Building Official is one drugged, impaired motherfucker.
The Pattern
Over the past eighteen months, this publication has documented a pattern of enforcement decisions by Jerry Creel that no competent building official operating with sound judgment would make. Not one of them. Not any of them. Certainly not all of them, in sequence, escalating at every turn.
Deploying armed police to a residential property to deliver a single stop work order—a document that could have been mailed, emailed, or taped to the door. Creel chose armed officers instead. That is disinhibition.
Issuing a stop work order on a completed structure. The work was done. There was nothing to stop. But Creel issued the order anyway, and when the citizen requested the Certificate of Occupancy he was entitled to, Creel refused. The $97 CO dispute has now cost Biloxi taxpayers in excess of $250,000 across four law firms. That is distorted risk assessment.
Filing four sworn criminal affidavits claiming he witnessed violations at "10 o'clock" one morning—then sending the same citizen a routine email about paperwork thirty minutes later. No mention of violations. No mention of criminal charges. No urgency. If Creel actually witnessed criminal activity at 10:00 AM, he would not casually discuss engineering reviews at 10:30 AM. That is either perjury or impaired cognition. Possibly both.
Conducting Sunday surveillance of a federal plaintiff's property. Not on duty. Not in uniform. Driving from church to a citizen's home to photograph and observe. Witnesses described a "creepy old man staring like a pervert." That is paranoid ideation manifesting as obsessive surveillance behavior.
Photographing a citizen's wife at her workplace while the citizen was traveling out of state. No enforcement purpose. No code violation at a workplace. Just surveillance of a spouse. That is behavior consistent with chronic benzodiazepine use combined with the kind of fixation that sound judgment would restrain.
Escalating a permit dispute into four federal lawsuits by refusing to resolve a $97 Certificate of Occupancy issue that could have ended in a single phone call. Instead: criminal charges, armed deployments, warrantless inspections, property surveillance, spouse surveillance, and a legal bill that has surpassed a quarter of a million dollars of taxpayer money. That is severely impaired decision-making at every single stage.
No competent building official operating with sound judgment makes any of those decisions—let alone all of them, in sequence, over eighteen months.
The Question
This investigation does not claim to have Jerry Creel's medical records. We do not have a toxicology report. We do not have a pharmacy printout.
What we have is this:
Multiple confidential sources—individuals within City operations with direct knowledge—independently confirming that Jerry Creel regularly uses Xanax.
A documented pattern of enforcement decisions that is remarkably consistent with the clinical profile of chronic alprazolam use.
A taxpayer-funded Police Interceptor that Creel drives nightly on public roads, creating a potential liability for the City every time he turns the key.
And a complete absence of any apparent drug testing policy for the man who drives that vehicle, makes those decisions, and files those affidavits.
The question this investigation poses is not whether Jerry Creel uses Xanax. Our sources have answered that question.
The question is whether the City of Biloxi knows, and whether they care.
Five Questions for the City
On March 5, 2026, this publication sent a formal press inquiry to Michael Whitehead, defense counsel for the City of Biloxi, requesting comment on the following questions:
1. Does Mr. Creel currently use Xanax or any other benzodiazepine?
2. Has the City of Biloxi ever drug tested Mr. Creel?
3. Does the City maintain a drug and alcohol testing policy for employees assigned take-home municipal vehicles?
4. Has any employee, supervisor, or elected official raised concerns about Mr. Creel's fitness for duty or substance use?
5. Is the City aware that chronic alprazolam use impairs motor vehicle operation, and that Mr. Creel drives a taxpayer-funded Police Interceptor nightly?
The deadline for response was 5:00 PM CST, Friday, March 6, 2026.
As of publication, we have received no response.
The Liability
This is not just a fitness-for-duty question. This is a liability question.
If Jerry Creel causes an accident in that Police Interceptor—and his blood draws positive for alprazolam—the City of Biloxi is exposed to a negligence claim that would make the current litigation look like a parking ticket. The City assigned the vehicle. The City knew or should have known about the Xanax use. The City had a duty to test and failed to do so.
If Jerry Creel made enforcement decisions—decisions that deprived citizens of property rights, that filed criminal charges, that deployed armed officers—while under the influence of a substance known to impair judgment, every one of those decisions is subject to challenge. Not just on constitutional grounds, which we have already raised in four federal cases. On competency grounds.
Was the man who swore those affidavits sober when he swore them?
Was the man who ordered armed officers to a citizen's home in a state of sound judgment when he gave the order?
Was the man who testified before the Board of Adjustments and Appeals coherent and unimpaired when he raised his right hand?
The City of Biloxi has represented to the federal court that Jerry Creel's enforcement actions were legitimate exercises of municipal authority by a competent official acting within his discretion. If that official was regularly using a controlled substance that the FDA says impairs judgment and decision-making, the City's representations to the court are in question.
163 Peter Street
Every night, that Police Interceptor sits at 163 Peter Street. Every morning, Jerry Creel drives it to City Hall, or to your property, or to your spouse's workplace.
The vehicle belongs to the taxpayers of Biloxi. The roads belong to the public. The enforcement authority belongs to the people.
The Xanax belongs to Jerry Creel.
And the City of Biloxi has nothing to say about it.
The Full Indictment
Xanax is not where it starts, and it is not where it ends. This publication has spent eighteen months documenting Jerry Creel's conduct. Here is what we have found—all of it sourced, all of it documented, all of it filed or ready to file:
Multiple sources confirm Creel engaged in a sexual relationship with Jennifer Polk, the City's Human Resources Manager—the person responsible for safeguarding employee conduct policies. When the HR gatekeeper is in bed with the subject, there is no gate.
Creel recommended his own employee, Brooke Vanover, as Deputy Clerk of Court—giving himself the power to manufacture criminal charges in-house. Tara Busby, his Code Enforcement Administrator (and another confirmed sexual partner), carries them out. Full investigation →
Deployed armed officers to a residential property to deliver a single stop work order—a document that could have been mailed. This was not law enforcement. This was intimidation using taxpayer-funded firearms.
Multiple sources confirm regular use of alprazolam. Impaired judgment, impaired cognition, impaired driving. Documented in this article.
Leaves church, drives to a federal plaintiff's property, photographs and surveys without warrant, without authority, without being on duty. Witnesses described a "creepy old man staring like a pervert." Full investigation →
Swore under oath he witnessed violations at 10:00 AM on July 10, 2025. Sent a routine email at 10:30 AM with no mention of any violations. Confronted publicly—said nothing. The prosecution collapsed. The case was dismissed. Full investigation →
Ford Explorer Police Interceptor, plate G 93022, parked nightly at a private residence at 163 Peter Street. Jerry Creel is not a police officer. He is a building official. The vehicle is used for personal transportation at taxpayer expense.
Creel testified that enforcement decisions were "directed" by the Mayor and Peter Abide. A building official's authority is statutory and non-delegable. When your building official takes orders from the city attorney on whom to prosecute, the office has been surrendered. Full investigation →
Creel admitted on the record that the citizen "bypassed us and filed a federal lawsuit" and "flooded us with public records requests." Thirty-four days later, criminal charges appeared. The Mayor directed it. Abide orchestrated it. Creel executed it. That is retaliation. That is conspiracy. That is 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
Creel's enforcement operates on a two-tier system: full force against citizens who challenge the City, and a blind eye toward the Mayor's family and connected property owners. When the building official enforces codes based on who you know rather than what you built, that is not code enforcement. That is a protection racket.
Ten items. Ten documented patterns of misconduct. Each one sufficient on its own to warrant termination and investigation. Together, they describe something far worse than a rogue building official.
They describe a criminal enterprise operating under the color of law.
A Note on Sources
The confidential sources who provided information for this investigation are protected under the First Amendment and the journalist's privilege recognized in this Circuit, as well as the Mississippi Shield Law, Miss. Code Ann. § 13-1-253. We will not identify them. Any attempt to compel disclosure will be resisted, reported, and turned into the next article.
We note that the consistency across multiple independent sources, each with direct personal knowledge of Mr. Creel's conduct, provides a substantial evidentiary foundation for publication. These are not rumors. These are not guesses. These are people who have watched Jerry Creel operate, up close, for years.
They are tired of what they have seen. So are we.
A Note on Transparency
“But it’s not just or right to be accusing—”
Except it fucking is.
Before publication, a formal press inquiry was sent to Michael Whitehead, Esq., defense counsel for the City of Biloxi, on March 5, 2026. The inquiry identified the substance, the vehicle, the pattern, and the questions. A response deadline of March 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM CST was provided. A separate inquiry was also directed to Richard Weaver, Chief Administrative Officer.
No response was received. From either of them.
And again—silence. Why, dear reader? If this were false, if this were baseless, if this were some reckless accusation—why wouldn’t they simply deny it? Why wouldn’t Whitehead fire back a letter calling us liars? Why wouldn’t the CAO issue a statement defending his Building Official?
Because they can’t.
And here’s the fun part about what we are doing, dear reader. All of this will be asked soon—in depositions and interrogatories. That will be fun. But even more fun is that counsel and the CAO are being informed, in case they didn’t know—or were pretending not to. Failure to act will bring these two liability. And we will collect it.
Unlike Jerry Creel—who filed criminal charges against a citizen without warning, without investigation, and without any opportunity to respond—we believe in transparency. We gave Mr. Creel and the City every opportunity to comment, deny, explain, or provide context.
Silence was their choice. Publication is ours.
A Message to Jerry Creel
Jerry Creel, if you are reading this—just resign, boy.
Ask Whitehead to show you the other emails asking for clarification. We will extend you an olive branch. Quit within the next 30 days and we will let you go—from all criminal and civil causes of action.
This is your only way out. We will forego damages against you and not pursue criminal charges—if you quit.
And don’t think for a second you will be presiding over the March 17 BZA hearing, you conflicted, drugged motherfucker. You not only shouldn’t—you can’t. And if you do, be prepared to be humiliated again. You will listen to every crime you committed, once again, read into the public record. I am being merciful and letting you know ahead of time.
30 days, Jerry. That’s the offer. After that, we collect everything—civil, criminal, and federal. The clock starts now.
This is a binding offer, boy Creel. We know you won’t take it—you’re too deep. But it’s there. Think about it.
Biloxi deserves someone decent in your position. Not a Xanax-head, HR-fucking, Sunday-surveilling pervert.
Documents Referenced
- Press Inquiry to Michael Whitehead, Esq. — March 5, 2026
- FDA Prescribing Information: Alprazolam (Xanax) — Black Box Warning
- Ford Explorer Police Interceptor, Government Plate G 93022
- July 10, 2025 Criminal Affidavits (Cases 178/233)
- November 7, 2025 Board of Adjustments and Appeals Transcript
- Federal Cases: 1:25-cv-00178-LG-RPM, 1:25-cv-00233-LG-RPM, 1:25-cv-00254-LG-RPM
- Mississippi Shield Law, Miss. Code Ann. § 13-1-253
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