2nd piece of military ordnance destroyed at Jones County landfill

A United States Army team destroyed an piece of military ordnance late Friday afternoon at a Jones County recycling plant where an employee had died in an explosion just a few days earlier.

The U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team from Fort Polk, La., arrived around 4:30 p.m. at Jarrell Recycling in Ellisville and destroyed the device.

A check of the property found no additional military munitions.

“We greatly appreciate the efforts of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, along with the U.S. Army EOD team from Fort Polk,” Jones County Sheriff Joe Berlin said. “We are blessed to have partners at the local, state and federal levels who provide expertise and assistance in difficult situations, such as we have faced this week here in Jones County.”