Crime

A man has been arrested and charged with murder after a man went missing in Wesson, Mississippi.

A Vicksburg man was arrested on Friday, August 5 after officers responded to a motor vehicle accident at approximately 10:03 p.m.

The 23-year-old off-duty police officer was riding a bike in the French Quarter when attacked around 3 a.m., the NOPD said

Memphis police say the suspect, Tommy Cochran, forced two of the victims out of their car at the Exxon gas station on Park Avenue at gunpoint.

A woman was arrested in Oxford Thursday, August 4, after Oxford police took a walk-in report regarding financial fraud.

Autopsy results showed the child died from blunt-force trauma, the sheriff said.

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According to police, a man wearing a black hoodie, black mask, and black boots pointed a gun at store employees and proceeded to rob the business.

Mayor Dale Berry turned himself in to police after a warrant was issued for his arrest. He has since bonded out of jail.

A resident of Pelahatchie, Mississippi, has been named as a defendant in a $300 million, multi-country “textbook pyramid and Ponzi scheme.”

Alcorn County Sheriff’s Office says early Friday morning, the four inmates cut a hole through the roof of the jail and escaped.

The officer who was shot by Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend during the raid at her apartment said he expected the FBI to make a move.

A man from Bolton was arrested Thursday in Warren County for drug possession.

David Star, 60, of Hattiesburg, stabbed his girlfriend during a fight Wednesday night, according to the Hattiesburg Police Department.

Octavius Black was arrested in 2018 for running over 58-year-old Betty Vaughans on Bellview Avenue in Moss Point. According to police, the pair had a disagreement over Vaughans’ 2003 Cadillac Escalade before Black used the same vehicle to hit her.

Arsenio Wells carjacked a man who was trying to pump gas, and was captured after police spotted him at another gas station in the stolen vehicle.

Brittney Brady, 23, Glendale community, will make her first appearance Wednesday afternoon in Forrest County Justice Court on a first-degree murder charge and two counts of felony child neglect.

Three people have been arrested after a woman was shot at and robbed in Byram.

A woman was allegedly killed in Jackson at approximately 3:58 a.m. Wednesday morning during an incident at Bailey Avenue and Oak Street.

Flowood police took 58-year-old Jennetta Morgan into custody on Wednesday, July 27.

If you have any information, you are asked to call the Vicksburg police at (601) 636-2511.

18-year-old Cortland Miekel Phlegm was charged Tuesday with manslaughter after allegedly shooting and killing 40-year-old William Nicholas Cardin during a road rage incident on Highway 25.

Servia Fortenberry and Sevetrius Dillon are accused of wiring payments to themselves from a city account without approval.

Miguel Andrade and Brayan Carillo, both 15, will learn if they are going to be tried as adults.

The councilman believes the law goes against the 14th Amendment and should be considered unconstitutional.

A man arrested in Meridian after being wanted by Clinton police for kidnapping is now back in Lauderdale County.

A federal jury convicted a Meridian man on two counts of attempted witness tampering.

The Jackson Police Department reported that a man was shot in the stomach at the intersection of Terry Road and Linde Road in Jackson Thursday afternoon.

Two people were arrested in Vicksburg on Wednesday for allegedly stealing a catalytic converter at the Riverwalk Casino.

Ethan Liming was murdered on June 2.