MISSISSIPPI
Sun Herald
By ROBIN FITZGERALD
rfitzgerald@sunherald.com Twitter: robincrimenews
GULFPORT — A federal judge has refused to revoke a detention order for a longtime Gulfport teacher accused of taking male students on out-of-state trips for sex.
Chief U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. has upheld a pretrial judge’s detention order for Richard Pryor, 68.
Pryor faces charges he sexually assaulted boys he took on trips while he was a math teacher at Bayou View Junior High in Gulfport from 1999 through 2005. Most of the trips reportedly occurred during summer months, when Pryor took groups of boys on excursions to other states.
A public defender had asked Guirola to revoke a detention order filed by Magistrate Judge John Gargiulo.
Pryor wanted to be released to the custody of his sister, a retired Gulfport teacher.
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