The manslaughter case involving the shooting death of six-year-old Zaylan Sparkman will move to a grand jury. The preliminary hearing for 16-year-old Albert Craft was waived in Harrison County Court today. Craft is accused of shooting his little brother, Zaylan,…
The Long Beach Police Department is looking for two suspects after an armed robbery of the First Bank in Long Beach today. The robbery took place Wednesday at approximately 11:48 a.m. and now officers are seeking any information on the…
Moss Point police are currently investigating a shooting which occurred this past Friday near the intersection of Frederick and Carroll Street. Around 10 p.m. Moss Point police received calls of multiple gunshots and responded, locating several spent casings. Shortly after…
The D’Iberville Police Department is requesting help identifying the suspect involved in a late night armed robbery yesterday. Captain Marty Griffin says officers responded to the Dollar General store located on Lemoyne Boulevard around 10:30 last night. Witnesses stated a…
Six new cases of West Nile Virus bring the state’s total this year to 25. State Health Department officials say the death toll remains at one. The new cases were in Clay, Forrest, Hinds, Leake, Lowndes, and Rankin counties. Hinds…
A D’Iberville woman who walked in on her fiancé with another woman is facing aggravated assault charges after police say she struck the victim in the head with a golf club. According to Captain Marty Griffin, officers responded to Merit…
On August 11th, 2017, Pass Christian Police arrested 56 year old Mitchell Wade Pritchard, of Gulfport, on one felony count of Enticement of a Child to meet for Sexual Purposes. The Pass Christian Police Department would like to thank the…
Harrison County inmate Jared Anthony Epperson was found hanging in his cell according to a press release issued by the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department at 11:52 a.m. today. According to deputies reports, Epperson was served lunch in his cell alone…
A Jackson County jury finds a man guilty of touching a child for lustful purposes. According to the District Attorney’s Office, 26-year-old Darnell Marion was found guilty after a two day trial and sentenced to 15 years in the MDOC…
A threat that was posted to social media about shooting up a school is now under investigation by the Moss Point Police Department and the FBI. According to the Moss Point Police Department late Wednesday night a teenager allegedly posted…
Police are looking for a man who allegedly made sexually explicit comments to two young girls outside a Walmart in Pass Christian. Authorities say the man is a possible sexual predator and a potential danger to the community. Police are…
A Gulfport man was arrested in Jackson County on one felony count of nonsupport of a child. Forty-one year-old Richard Jermaine Macklin was arrested by investigators following a June indictment by a grand jury. He was booked into the Jackson…
A Memphis man was convicted in Harrison County for failing to pay more than $23,000 in child support. Thirty-seven year-old Abdulrahim Hasain was found guilty by a Harrison County jury Wednesday on one count of felony non-support of a child.…
The Biloxi Police Department would like help identifying a male who allegedly shoplifted several items from Sunglass World at Edgewater Mall. Authorities say the subject was captured on camera committing the thefts then fled the store. The man is identified…
Police responding to reports of a stolen vehicle from a man’s home in Biloxi yesterday found two suspects hiding inside. The homeowner’s vehicle had been stolen while he was away from his house. While on scene, officers checked the exterior…
One man is in custody following a shooting that occurred Monday evening in Gulfport. Forty-seven year-old Jerome Verdell Jefferson of Gulfport has been charged with attempted murder after turning himself in shortly after the shooting occurred. The shooting happened at…
A California man is in custody in Harrison County after deputies arrested him for one felony count of receiving stolen property. Sheriff Troy Peterson says 58-year-old James Franklin of Apple Valley, California was pulled over on Interstate 10 near mile…
The Pass Christian Police Department is seeking information on the theft of two boats. On June 29th, 2017, the Pass Christian Police Department received a grand larceny report for theft of two boats. One was a 15 foot camouflage aluminum…
There is new information regarding an armed robbery that happened at the Regency Inn Hotel in Pascagoula Sunday night. The Pascagoula police arrested 19-year-old Anthony Hurst Jr. after he matched the description of a suspect who tried to rob a…
Eighteen-year-old William Vinson Smith Belcher of Waveland has been arrested on the charges of aggravated assault, domestic violence, and kidnapping. According to Chief David Allen, Waveland police officers responded to Belcher’s residence in reference to a domestic violence incident. Upon…
The Gulfport Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred earlier this evening in Gulfport. The shooting happened at the Arcadian Plaza Shopping Center just north of the Golden Corral on Highway 49. Gulfport Police Chief Leonard Papania says the…
A Jackson County man was sentenced to more than a decade in prison today. Sixty-one year-old Juan Guzman was sentenced to thirty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections where he will serve 15 of those years…
Gulfport police released new details regarding the shooting that took the life of Zaylan Sparkman. According to Chief Leonard Papania, the gun used to kill the child was illegally obtained. Police found Zaylan suffering from a single gunshot wound on…
A man is recovering after a shooting in the Bay Side neighborhood of Bay St. Louis over the weekend. The incident happened just west of Highway 90. According to neighbors, a man was walking down Sunflower Street between West Greene…