HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) – Former Biloxi Mayor Pete Halat, who was released from prison in March for participating in a 1987 murder plot against a Mississippi Gulf Coast judge and his wife, is now working as handyman at a church in Hattiesburg.

The Rev. Tommy Conway, pastor at St. Thomas Catholic Church on the University of Southern Mississippi campus, tells The Sun Herald that Halat has been painting, doing yard work and performing any other chores requested.