JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)- A Gautier man will serve 45 years for child exploitation. Twenty-six-year-old David Pace was sentenced for two counts of exploitation of a child and one count of felony child endangerment. According to Assistant District Attorney George…
BILOXI, Miss. (WXXV)- The Biloxi police arrested a Moss Point man after the man allegedly threatened to shoot at people on Howard Avenue this past Sunday. Biloxi…
PICAYUNE, Miss. (WXXV)- A Picayune man was arrested on the offense of possession of child pornography. Officers of the Picayune Police Department responded to a business on Frontage Road on August 27. Upon arrival, the officers made contact with members…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV) - In recent news in the City of Gulfport, several teens have been linked to criminal activity over the past few months. Just two weeks ago, the community held…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)- A Gulfport man will serve 30 years behind bars after pleading guilty to manslaughter. Fifty-one-year-old Octavius Louis Benton Sr. stabbed 44-year-old Damien Lindsey to death in August 2023. The stabbing happened after Lindsey hit Benton’s wheelchair bound…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)-The Gulfport Police Department arrested a 15-year-old and charged him with one count of possession of a handgun on school property and one count of shooting at a vehicle. The teen is a student at Harrison County School…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)- A Gulfport man was sentenced for killing his girlfriend’s five-year-old son back in 2023. Thirty-two-year-old Denzel Jamal Blakely pled guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder and felony child abuse. The investigation began on April 14, 2023 when the…
HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)- Harrison County Sheriff Matt Haley has announced multiple arrests related to the seizure of large amounts of cocaine. Hector Rodriguez-Valdez, Bryan Rodriguez-Valdez, and Raul Quijas-Aguero of Mexico were arrested on federal drug trafficking charges. On August…
PEARL RIVER COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)- Drugs were found in a sweet tea jug, leading to the arrest of three people. The incident happened…
GEORGE COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)- A George County man is now charged in the death of his father. Thirty-four-year-old Michael Williams was taken into custody Wednesday and charged with manslaughter and tampering with physical evidence. The incident happened just after 5:30…
GEORGE COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)- An off-duty George County sheriff’s deputy was arrested Thursday. Lucedale Police saw the deputy driving under the influence within city limits. The deputy has been identified as Braxton Keebler. He was taken into custody without incident.…
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…
SOUTH, MISS. (WXXV)-A Bay St. Louis man has been sentenced to 25 years behind bars for exploiting children. Twenty-year-old Drew Gallardo pled guilty to two counts of exploitation of a child involving two 12-year-old girls. The investigation began when the…
LONG BEACH, Miss. (WXXV)- A Long Beach man has been sentenced to thirty years for child abuse. Omar Deluna pled guilty to one count of felony child abuse and one count of felony child endangerment. The investigation began when the…
RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)-Three Mississippi Department of Corrections officers are now behind bars after smuggling contraband into a Mississippi prison. Sherry McCollum, Kiarra Michael, and Theresa Hasty…
An Ole Miss football player is dead after a shooting in Tennessee. It happened Saturday night in Cordova, a suburb of Memphis. Detectives in the Shelby…
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WXXV)- An Uber driver has been charged with one count of aggravated assault after running over a pedestrian. On July 18, officers with Ocean Springs Police Department responded to the service drive of the new Singing River…
By SARA CLINE and JIM MUSTIAN Updated 4:00 PM CDT, July 16, 2025 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Federal authorities have charged three small-town Louisiana police chiefs with taking hundreds of $5,000 bribes over nearly a decade in exchange for filing false police…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)- A husband and wife have been arrested and charged with strong-arm robbery in Gulfport. On July 11, the Gulfport Police Department responded to 19th Street in reference to a possible domestic assault. During the course of the…
D’IBERVILLE, Miss. (WXXV)- Over the weekend in D’Iberville, a pair of arrests were made in connection to the murder of a Gulfport man. Twenty-year-old Amonte Robinson was…
WAVELAND, Miss. (WXXV)- Two men have been arrested in a Waveland shooting. De’Arion Walker and Brandon Favre Jr. have both been arrested and charged with shooting into a dwelling. Both subjects were arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service. These charges…
HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)- Sheriff Matt Haley announced the arrest of 33-year-old Diego Valdez-Marroquin, a citizen of Guatemala, on a felony charge of aggravated drug trafficking. On July 6, a deputy from the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Interdiction Division…
STONE COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)- A Stone County man is being charged with first degree-murder after a multiple hour standoff with law enforcement on Friday night. Orlando Breland was arrested Friday…
HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)- Two individuals were arrested in Harrison County on felony charges of fentanyl death. The charges stemmed from a drug overdose investigated by the Harrison County Narcotics Task Force. The investigation led to the arrest of 28-year-old…