crime

Hit and Run Investigation Continues

An investigation continues as a Moss Point man sits behind bars in connection to a fatal hit and run accident in D’iberville Saturday. Police arrested 24-year-old Markey Tanner on the charge of hit and run causing death. The victim, 22-year-old…

Parade Shooting Investigation Continues

Pass Christian Police Chief Tim Hendricks shuts down rumors of domestic terrorism and racial conflicts, as motives for Sunday’s fatal shooting at the Mardi Gras parade are still under investigation. News 25’s Laurene Callander was at today’s press conference where…

Massage Parlor Remains Shut Down

The investigation into human trafficking that allegedly took place at a Jackson County massage parlor continues. The business, JJ Spa Massages, remains shut down nearly three months after authorities raided it and arrested two people on prostitution charges. Jackson County…

Arrested for Cyberstalking Church

An Ocean Springs man is accused of threatening and harassing a pastor, staff and parishioners of a local church. Police say some of the communication included both threats of violence and racial slurs. Fifty-five year-old Vincent Drummond is charged with…

Hancock Bank Robbery Arrest

Gulfport police have made an arrest in Friday’s armed robbery at Hancock Bank off north Highway 49. Twenty-five year-old Daniel Lee Murphy of Saucier is charged with armed robbery in the case. The crime was captured on the bank’s surveillance…

Hancock Bank Robbery

Gulfport police are asking for the public’s assistance locating the suspect in an armed robbery at Hancock Bank off Highway 49 in north Gulfport. Police say the suspect entered the building, implied he had a weapon and demanded the teller…

Police Investigate Robbery at Hancock Bank

Police are investigating a robbery at Hancock Bank off Highway 49 in north Gulfport. Calls began pouring into our newsroom just after 5 o’clock about all the activity at and around the bank, including several cop cars and a K-9…

Former Long Beach Officer Sentenced

A former Long Beach police officer was sentenced to serve 24 years in prison for the statutory rape of his teenage girlfriend while on duty. Forty-five year-old Patrick Klis had previously pled guilty to two counts of statutory rape of…

SWAT Situation in Gulfport

It was a scary moment for residents on 24th Street in Gulfport this morning after police shut down the road and a SWAT team surrounded a home with an armed man barricaded inside. War veteran Cody Landry was taken into…

Arrests Made in Armed Robbery

Three people have been arrested after an armed robbery at a Pass Road business Monday afternoon. Gulfport police responded to Tobacco and Beer Discount Store. Officers learned a man had approached a store clerk with a handgun, demanded money and…

Shootout at Gun Shop

New developments in the gun shop shooting in Pearl River County over the weekend that left the store’s owner and his dead and two customers, who were also a father and son duo, in the hospital. Chief Deputy Shane Tucker…

Kohl's Suspects Identified

Police believe they have identified two of the three women who shoplifted and assaulted a Kohl’s worker in D’iberville. Authorities believe two of the three suspects in surveillance video from January 15th are Fredreanna Michelle Quin and Tykeshia Barnes, both…

Human Remains Found in D’iberville

Human remains found inside of a parked car Saturday could belong to a missing woman from Biloxi. Officials with both the D’iberville and Biloxi Police Department tell News 25 that the body possible belongs to 21-year-old Tiffany Rae McDavid. The…

Arrest made in Saturday Night Shooting

An arrest has been made in the Saturday night shooting that took the life of one 16-year-old male. Gulfport police arrested 15-year-old Kobe Jaquan Augustine of Gulfport in connection to the west Gulfport shooting on 19th Street. According to officials,…

Shootout at Gun Shop in Pearl River County

A father and son are dead after an argument broke out Saturday afternoon at the McLemore Gun Store on Mississippi 43. Authorities say two customers, 52-year-old Audy McCool and his son, 29-year-old Michael McCool, were picking up a firearm that…

Preacher Convicted of Sexual Battery

According to District Attorney Joel Smith, a former Stone County preacher will face charges after a jury found him guilty of sexual battery of a child today. Testimony against 55-year-old Carlos Smith of Saucier revealed that he and the victim…

Papa John’s Burglary

A man who is believed to have broken in and burglarized a Papa John’s in Ocean Springs is still on the loose. According to police,the suspect, 45-year-old Chad Brewster, apparently used a key to enter the business and appeared to…

Shooting at a Barber College in Waveland

Police have now identified the gunman in the Waveland shooting that took place earlier this afternoon at a barber college. News 25’s Kendra Turley brings us the latest from that investigation. What was supposed to be a typical day of…

Arrest of Andrew Ryan Law

Chief of Police Wayne Payne announced the arrest of Andrew Ryan Law, 31 from the Vancleave area of Jackson County, on two counts of Grand Larceny of a Motor Vehicle and Credit Card Fraud