Eduardo Guillermo Diaz, 58, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, pled guilty on Tuesday, March 22, 2016, before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to one count of mail fraud, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today. Diaz admitted that, while operating…
A second man has pleaded guilty in connection to a rope being tied around the neck of the James Meredith statue at the University of Mississippi. Former Ole Miss student Austin Reed Edenfield pleaded guilty to one count of using…
No one is a winner in this case. That was part of the message Judge Chris Schmidt had today as he sentenced Krystal Gonzales, the woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a multi-million dollar apartment complex in D’Iberville.…
News 25 has learned that a group of students at Pascagoula High School have been arrested on drug charges. Police Chief Kenny Johnson confirmed marijuana was found in several vehicles on Tuesday. The campus officer had called police and asked…
Krystal Gonzales has been sentenced to seven years in prison and was ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution for burning down an apartment building. This comes after her guilty plea last week when she admitted to starting the fire…
Biloxi, Mississippi – District Attorney Joel Smith announced today that Krystal Gonzales was sentenced at the Harrison County Courthouse for the crime of first degree arson after pleading guilty during the second day of her jury trial last week. Circuit…
On March 23, 2016 the Mississippi State Crime Lab in Jackson, Mississippi conducted an autopsy on Donta Lashawn Banks. The cause of death was determined to be from a gunshot to the head. The complete results of the autopsy are…
A new twist in a Jackson County murder investigation, deputies say the car the two suspects crashed into a Biloxi house last night belonged to the victim. Thirty-six year-old Rita Johnston and 35-year-old Hubert Anderson have been charged with capital…
New developments this afternoon about the homicide investigation in which the body of a man was found on a dirt road in the St. Andrews community of Jackson County Tuesday morning. Two have been charged with capital murder: Rita Johnston…
The vehicle linked with the early morning Jackson County homicide crashed into a Biloxi home and caught fire. News 25’s Kendra Turley has the details. Earlier today, the Biloxi Police Department received word from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office about…
The car linked to the murder in Jackson County crashed into a house in Biloxi and caught fire. The suspect fled on foot but was arrested shortly after. The passenger suffered minor injuries.
A body was discovered by a Jackson County Sheriff’s deputy in the St. Andrew’s area early this morning. A homicide investigation is underway. Officer Chuck Fowler found the body on a dirt street off Cook Road just before 9 a.m. Jackson County…
A bold home invasion in Gulfport, a woman reports at 7 o’clock Monday morning, two men inside her home. That invasion led to shots fired. A dog hit and the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department on a manhunt. News 25’s Kristen…
Scott Walker was released from a halfway house this morning after completing his sentence for public corruption convictions. The former business consultant was sentenced in July of 2014 for convictions of fraud and conspiracy to defraud the government. The charges…
A suspect is now behind bars charged with murder in the shooting death of a man in East Biloxi last night. Twenty-seven year-old Jesse King has surrendered to the Biloxi Police Department and is now at the Harrison County Jail…
A manhunt is underway as we speak in Harrison County after a home invasion in which a woman reported masked men fired a shot at her and shot her dog as they fled. Authorities have two people in custody and…
Police are searching for a vehicle that was involved in a hit and run near the island view casino Saturday. The vehicle is described as a white pickup with a lifted suspension, possibly a Ford F-250 or similar truck. The…
A hand-made wooden cross is missing from a homeless man's memorial in Gulfport. This is the site where homeless man Russell bangs lived and was unfortunately found dead in January 2015. His body was discovered by friends in the…
On March 18, 2016, the Gulfport Police Department arrested 30 year old Rinaldo Eugene Norris Jr., of Gulfport, on 4 additional counts of Armed Robbery. The arrests was the result of follow up investigations into the recently reported armed robberies.…
A woman convicted in the July 2010 capital murder case of a George County sheriff has been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Brandy Nicole Williams was convicted of capital murder today by a Lauderdale County jury. The…
The Gulfport Police Department has made arrests in a string of burglaries throughout the city over the past week. Thirty-year-old Rinaldo Norris has been charged with three counts of armed robbery and 36-year-old Kezi Jefferson has been charged with one…
Gulfport Police have made arrests in regard to a string of burglaries in Gulfport over the past week. 36 year old Kezi Latanya Jefferson has been charged with one count of armed robbery and 30 year old Rinaldo Eugene Norrial has…
A daycare center in Corinth has been shut down amid allegations of sexual and physical abuse to at least six children. According to a document from the Mississippi Department of Health and the Alcorn County Sheriff's Department, the circle y…
Police are investigating an armed robbery at a Papa John’s in Gulfport, just off Highway 49. News 25’s Kendra Turley went to the scene. She has the details.