On Wednesday November 15, 2017, Sheriff Troy Peterson announced the arrest of 49 year old Kevin Paul Mattina who resides at 2009 S 8th St. Ocean Springs, MS on a felony charge of False Pretense. According to Sheriff Troy Peterson,…
Two South Mississippi women are arrested in connection with a missing teen from Hattiesburg. The missing 13-year-old was found safe in Biloxi yesterday and reunited with her parents. The teen’s aunt, 38-year-old Shannon Hinton of Hattiesburg, was arrested along with…
Former Biloxi School District Police Chief Paul Cannette is behind bars after a grand jury indicted him on an embezzlement charge. Special agents from the Mississippi Office of the State Auditor arrested Cannette yesterday. Authorities say Cannette embezzled more than…
At approximately 5:30 PM this evening an unknown black male walked into the Hancock Bank located at 529 Highway 90 in Waveland and robbed them via a note which indicated that he had a weapon. The male then left in…
A 41-year-old man pleads guilty to touching of a child and exploitation of a child. According to the district attorney’s office, George Ramp will serve an entire 45 year sentence in prison. The investigation began when two Harrison County sheriff’s…
According to the Biloxi Police Department, thirty-eight year-old Zawon Timothy Moore has been arrested on the charge of robbery by assault. On August 30th, Biloxi police responded to the 1900 block of Beach Boulevard in reference to a report of…
Two more have been arrested in connection with a stabbing that happened at the Hard Rock Casino over the weekend. The U.S. Marshal’s Task Force located and arrested 29-year-old Hallis Russ Jr. and his girlfriend, Brandi Ratliff, today in the…
A Pascagoula man was arrested today on charges of aggravated assault after allegedly shooting a teen at a Biloxi house party. Twenty-year-old Corbyn Cowan is the suspect in the May 29th shooting on Carmargue Lane in which a teenage victim…
Friday marks the anniversary of the day Kimberly Watts was murdered in her Long Beach home. Forty-eight year-old Kimberly Watts was murdered inside her own home and to this day any information pertaining to her case is being withheld. Now,…
On 10 November 2017 at approximately 3:33 pm Biloxi Police Officers responded the valet area of the Hard Rock Casino, located at 777 Beach Blvd. Biloxi, MS, for a report of a stabbing. When officers arrived they received information that…
Arkansas state troopers were called to the 2000 block of Highway 49 in Blackton, Arkansas about 1:15 p.m. today. The troopers found the 2014 Nissan Rogue burning that Jerry Glenn Willis, 43, is accused of taking from his live-in girlfriend.…
Two people are injured after a shooting in Moss Point last night. Police Chief Calvin Hutchins said the shooting occurred at the corner of Highway 63 and Frederick Street around 9 p.m. last night. When officers arrived on scene they…
A Gulfport man found guilty of aggravated assault yesterday could serve up to 20 years in prison. Thirty-three year-old Merlin Williams was arrested in July 2016 for stabbing his girlfriend repeatedly in the chest, arm, back, neck, and legs. After…
Nearly a dozen law enforcement agencies from the George County Sheriff’s Office to the FBI arrested 19 people today in what authorities are calling Operation Crackdown. Operation Crackdown consists of 42 charges that stem from selling methamphetamine, crack cocaine, and…
Agents of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and other south Mississippi law enforcement officers ask your assistance locating Jerry Glenn Willis, 43, who is wanted for domestic aggravated assault and kidnapping after his alleged live-in girlfriend was found burned alive.…
On 08 November 2017 at approximately 6:06 PM, twenty-year-old Aseante Taylor of Gulfport was arrested by the Biloxi Police Department on a warrant for Drive-By Shooting. The warrant and arrest stem from an investigation that began on 17 September 2017…
The search for an Alabama man wanted for attempted murder ends in Mississippi. Twenty-six year-old Byron Miller was wanted for the domestic violence stabbing of a Baldwin County woman. Authorities say the woman was stabbed early this morning and underwent…
A former public information officer with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department finds herself behind bars now, indicted on a felony charge of embezzlement. According to the indictment, 47-year-old Cherie Ward of Ocean Springs is accused of converting her own use…
Long Beach officers have captured a teenager wanted for auto burglary. Nineteen-year-old Antonious Young of Gulfport is in custody for entering a vehicle on Kirkendall Place and stealing items from the car. Young is at the Harrison County Adult Detention…
An Ocean Springs man pleads guilty today to charges involving child pornography. Forty-five year-old Steven Dedual Jr. pled guilty in the United States District Court to accessing the internet with the intent to view child pornography. Through the use of…
Bay St. Louis Police Department has confirmed the arrest of Jesse Linton, a Bay St. Louis man who’s been wanted since January after holding a knife against his mother’s neck. On January 14th, Linton’s mother, Alice Moore, told officers that…
A Bay St. Louis man has been indicted in the 2016 killings of two people, Kristina Quintini and Norris Demetrius Mueller. Myrick Laneaux was indicted on two murder charges, a charge of aggravated assault ‘manifesting extreme indifference to human life’…
Three men are in custody after a 9-1-1 call alerting authorities of a home invasion on Halloween night in Biloxi. William Dodson and James Bullock are charged with home invasion burglary and Richard Covey Jr. faces accessory after the fact…
Bay St. Louis police have arrested two people in connection with a theft at the Hollywood Casino. Police say Anthony Rhodes and Gabrielle Parker were arrested after they were seen using a device to remove coins from various arcade machines…