A Starkville man received a five-year sentence for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Antonio Hill, the previously convicted felon, will also have a three-year term of supervised release following his sentence.
A Lowndes County man was indicted for two child sex crimes. 73-year-old Billy Joe Kemp was charged with two counts of sexual battery.
Brooksville police are looking for the shooter who injured a man and damaged homes in a drive-by shooting Monday morning.
An Okolona man was arrested in Tupelo for alleged domestic violence. Tupelo police arrived at Lockridge Street for a domestic violence charge.
A man already in jail is a suspect in a separate crime and now faces more charges. On July 10, someone contacted Tupelo police about their purse missing inside their vehicle.
A Noxubee County man pleaded guilty to ramming his vehicle into a patrol car. Donald Dooley pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer.
The Clay County Sheriff's Office, along with the West Point Police Department, the Highway Patrol, and the State's Violent Crimes Task Force mounted Operation Saturation in Clay County.
An Attala County man is facing a kidnapping charge in Lee County. 23-year-old Preston Dean was also charged with aggravated domestic violence and burglary.
A Columbus man was arrested in Pickens County for alleged forged checks totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars and drugs.
A Noxubee County man escaped jail time after pleading guilty to running over a repo man. Ladarius Tompkins was indicted for aggravated assault and that's the charge he pleaded guilty to.
Two people from Macon were accused of taking items across Noxubee County. Eric Seideman and Alecia Childress were both charged with burglary of a dwelling and grand larceny.
A former Alcorn County Schools superintendent pleaded guilty to falsifying records. Bill Brand was indicted and arrested for false representations to defraud the government in August 2021.
Officers were called to a report of a stolen car at a business in the 1300 block of University Avenue in Oxford on September 6.
Fulton police needed your help to find any suspects involved in a burglary crime. Three vehicles were burglarized and three firearms were stolen at Mueller Brass earlier on September 12.
A federal trial scheduled for next week for two Columbus businessmen was continued until next month.
