Alabama man arrested in Jackson County on kidnapping, battery charges

JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)-An Alabama man is behind bars on multiple charges, including kidnapping, after being arrested in the St. Martin area.

Melvin Hill is now charged with counts of kidnapping, motor vehicle theft, and sexual battery.

Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputies were called out to the Circle K in St. Martin Thursday morning.

There they found a woman who said she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by her ex-boyfriend in Alabama and had run into the store to alert employees of her situation.

Deputies arrested Hill as he was trying to return to Alabama.

More charges are forthcoming in Hill’s case.