A foster parent on the Coast is now behind bars for allegedly abusing her six-year-old foster child. Fifty-six year-old Charlene Hilliard of Pass Christian now faces two felony counts of child abuse. According to Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson, a…
A former Moss Point police officer is out of a job after a federal grand jury in Louisiana indicted him for using excessive force. According to the indictment, former Officer Robert Hammac was working at the Lake Charles Police Department…
A D’Iberville man has been sentenced to federal prison for possession of pipe bombs. Mark Bosarge Jr. was sentenced to five years behind bars for possession of a firearm not registered in the National Firearms and Transfer Record. In June…
A 38-year-old Bay St. Louis man is behind bars tonight, facing possession charges after being arrested at a traffic stop on Ruella Avenue. Reginald Leagea was stopped by police yesterday around 11:15 p.m. He is being charged with one count…
Police in Bay St. Louis have a man in custody facing assault charges on a police officer. This morning, around 1:30, Bay St. Louis police were called out to a home on Hancock Street after reports of trespassing. Officers found…
Harrison County authorities are looking for a person regarding a string of burglaries in the Woolmarket area. According to Sheriff Troy Peterson, on March 21st, deputies responded to three burglaries in Woolmarket. On March 25th, deputies responded to two burglaries…
It is no secret that criminal activities take place over the roadways every day, even right here on the Gulf Coast, but law enforcement officers are working hard to make the highways safer. Interstate 10 runs through South Mississippi and…
Early this morning, Biloxi police caught and arrested a man attempting to steal a car. Police say James Travis Owens fled the scene still in possession of some items taken from the vehicle. He was quickly captured soon after and…
A Gulfport man is facing multiple charges including one felony for allegedly stealing a car and lighting it on fire in Harrison County. Long Beach police arrested 29-year-old Jimmy Harsson, charging him with one count of burglary of a dwelling,…
The Biloxi Police Department arrested 38-year-old Korry Johnpatrick Breeland of Gulfport, MS on a warrant for Grand Larceny – Auto. The warrant was issued as a result of an investigation into the theft of a motor vehicle that occurred on…
A traffic stop puts a Gulfport man behind bars. Around 3 a.m., Biloxi police stopped 29-year-old Moreno Estelle. He was driving a gold 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier in the 700 block of Beach Boulevard. During the stop, officers discovered the vehicle…
Two habitual offenders have been sentenced on drug charges for their fourth felony convictions. Forty-one old Clarence Kennedy Jr. and 37-year-old Curvis Ladner pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance. Kennedy is also being convicted of possession with intent…
A Moss Point man is in the Jackson County Adult Detention Center charged with murder in the shooting death of another man Tuesday night. Sheriff Mike Ezell says Dirk Lambert Jr. allegedly shot 50-year-old Noel Christopher Benson of Grand Bay,…
Jackson County Sheriff’s Investigators are on the scene of a shooting that happened around 6:30 Tuesday evening on Independence Road in the Fort Lakes community. Sheriff Mike Ezell says a person is in custody being questioned, as well as witnesses.…
After changing his mind this morning, a Gulfport man has pled guilty to second degree murder and sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison. Thirty-six year-old Willie Cenales was sentenced today to 27 years in prison without the possibility of…
Police are searching for a suspect after a Woolmarket Elementary School classroom was left trashed over the weekend. The classroom, which is used for an after school program, was discovered Monday destroyed with desks and school supplies thrown across the…
Twenty-seven year-old William Brashears of Saucier is facing a count of felony domestic violence for an incident in May 2018. A warrant was issued for Brashears’ arrest following an investigation into a domestic violence report on Woolmarket Road in Saucier.…
A fourth person is facing aggravated assault charges in connection with a shooting that happened in Biloxi. Nineteen-year-old Shaparis Johnson of Jackson County was taken into custody by Biloxi police today. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department issued a warrant for…
Two people were arrested after a complaint of fraudulent checks and transactions in Bay St. Louis. Thirty-one year-old Eric Ersan Yurttas and 66-year-old Enimia Charlotta Pohl both of Pass Christian were charged with one count of felony false pretense. Yurttas…
Nine people from the Kiln are now behind bars following a drug search in Hancock County this morning. The sheriff’s office narcotics agents executed search warrants at several homes in the 24,000 block of Standard-Dedeaux Road. Agents recovered meth, marijuana,…
The Mississippi Court of Appeals has affirmed a guilty verdict in the 2017 murder trial of a Gulfport man. Jalen Williams was convicted of capital murder in the death of Lamont Hayes, whom Williams and his co-defendant Rashad Johnson were…
A man is behind bars today for stealing property and possession of a controlled substance. Biloxi police arrested 29-year-old Antwone Beans after he was found with a reported stolen car out of Pascagoula. Beans is now at the Harrison County…
A convicted felon is once again off the streets after another run-in with police over the weekend. Thirty-five year-old Remington Steele is accused of shooting a man in the foot in Saucier. That man was taken to a local hospital…
Twenty years: this is the sentence handed down by a judge in Hancock County today nearly three years after the death of a South Mississippi toddler left in her mother’s patrol car in extreme heat. “Always happy, always jumping, always…