Last night, convicted felon Richard Merritt was captured. He had been on the run for eight months before his arrest in Nashville. Tonight, U.S. Marshals are giving us insight into the search for Merritt leading up to his capture. You…
In Harrison County, gripping testimony and shocking new details in an apparent drug deal gone wrong in 2017. A jury deliberated for more than two hours finding Torre Clark not guilty of two first-degree murder charges. Officers arrested Clark in…
A Biloxi teen is behind bars for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Nineteen-year-old Darrell Rankin Jr. was taken into custody following an investigation into an incident that unfolded on September 10th in the area of Keller Avenue and Austin…
One woman is dead after an overnight shooting in Gulfport. Gulfport police say officers arrived on scene at the O’Neal Road Apartment Complex at around 1 a.m. Once they arrived, they found 44-year-old Sharon Grantham dead from an apparent gunshot…
A Harrison County man is behind bars after he’s accused of child molestation. Zachariah Walburn was booked into the Harrison County Adult Detention Center and is facing a felony charge of touching a child for lustful purposes. A 13-year-old girl…
A sheriff in northeast Mississippi says a police officer has shot and killed a man who had just killed a woman in a small-town convenience store. Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson tells local news media that the two shootings happened…
The Biloxi Police Department needs help identifying a woman who allegedly assaulted a female victim on a motorized scooter. Biloxi police are looking for a black female with long black hair and long eye lashes. According to police, the woman…
The Biloxi Police Department is requesting assistance in identifying the individual wanted for questioning only in reference to an auto burglary incident. The incident occurred on September 12, 2019 in the 800 block of Bayview Avenue, Biloxi, where a firearm…
Two 12-year-old Jackson County boys are in custody after allegedly making threats against St. Martin Middle School. Sheriff Mike Ezell says over the past weekend the juveniles made statements that they were bringing a gun to school to hurt other…
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department has announced the arrest of seven people, including four juveniles for two separate shootings believed to be connected. Sheriff Mike Ezell says on the night of September 8th, gunshots were fired into a home in…
A man is sentenced to life behind bars for what Judge Lisa Dodson calls a ‘completely senseless act.’ Forty-year-old Christopher May of New Orleans says he was smoking crack and drinking when he gunned down Clifford Burke in his truck…
Biloxi police are warning residents of an attempted fraud scheme involving people posed as Biloxi police officers attempting to collect ‘unpaid fines.’ In a public service announcement released this afternoon, police stated ‘individuals contacted citizens stating they were officers from…
Ocean Springs police have taken a suspect into custody for a shooting that happened on Sunday morning. Police responded to an emergency call just before 5 that shots had been fired on Deana Road. The victim told police that the…
A man in Jackson County has been charged with four counts of auto burglary. According to Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell, four vehicles were burglarized on Jackson Lee Drive in St. Martin. Investigators received surveillance video and identified 19-year-old Kristian…
The Biloxi Police Department arrested 28-year-old Seyha X Chang of Ocean Springs on a warrant for auto burglary. The warrant was issued as the result of an investigation into an auto burglary reported in the 1900 block of Beach Blvd.…
The Biloxi Police Department is requesting assistance in helping to identify a subject wanted in connection to petit larceny of cell phones from the 800 block of Bayview Avenue on August 13th, 2019. The white male, approximately 6 feet tall…
One woman is behind bars this morning on a warrant for embezzlement. Biloxi police arrested 30-year-old Christian Eliana Neice after an investigation into an incident that happened on June 4th. Police say she stole over $1,000 worth of items from…
One man is in the hospital and the suspect is in custody following an assault in the Movella community on August 23rd. The George County Sheriff’s Office took 34-year-old Brandon Tanner for felony domestic violence-aggravated assault. Deputies say the victim…
The Biloxi Police Department arrested 41-year-old Stephen Eldred Gilbert and 44-year-old Tabatha Genice McKissick of Alabama on warrants for burglary. Warrants were issued as the result of investigations into storage shed burglaries that occurred on the 12th & 14th of…
Chief of Police Wayne Payne announced the arrest of 35-year-old Trent Wayne Brown, 33-year-old Pierre Raphael Jordan, 27-year-old Javon Kenta Washington and 28-year-old Payton Allen Stevens on the charge of commercial burglary. All four suspects are from Houston, Texas. Captain…
A mental evaluation has been ordered for Brandon Theesfeld, the man charged with murder in the death of Ole Miss student Ally Kostial. At a hearing in Oxford this morning, Theesfeld’s attorneys dropped their request for bond for him and…
Gulfport Police are searching for this man, 24-year-old Craig Lott, who is wanted for a drive-by shooting that happened on August 17th in the area of Cowan and East Pass Road. Lott is considered armed and dangerous. Anyone with information…
The Bay St. Louis Police Department arrested 28-year-old Christopher Dale Byrd of Lakeshore and charged him with one count of drive-by shooting. On August 19, 2019, at approximately 6:00 p.m., The Bay St. Louis Police Department responded to a drive-by…
A Biloxi man is behind bars this morning on an assault charge. Biloxi police arrested 24-year-old Keyonta Reed after an investigation into an incident where police say he assaulted a medical person while they were doing their job. They suffered…