Biloxi police arrested 69-year-old Erastus Thompson Jr. on a warrant for felony embezzlement of a vehicle. Police say Thompson was arrested during a traffic stop by Gulfport police. The complaint leading to the arrest of Thompson was made in February…
D’Iberville police arrested two Saucier residents after a report of items stolen out of a vehicle parked in the Scarlet Pearl Casino parking garage. Police say 49-year-old Billy Bradley and 29-year-old Kerrie Kilduff were seen on video surveillance taking property…
Octavia Williams-Biggs was arrested by the Pascagoula Police Department. A warrant was issued for her arrest for her involvement in the homicide of Lorenzo Biggs. She’s been charged with accessory after the fact. Those charges may be upgraded in the…
Gulfport police are investigating an overnight shooting. Around 4 a.m., officers responded to Memorial Hospital in reference to a 25-year-old male suffering from a gunshot wound to his abdomen. Police say the victim was walking in the 1700 block of…
The primary suspect in a fatal shooting that happened last Friday at a home on Dupont Avenue in Pascagoula turned himself into the police today. According to Captain Doug Adams, Rouvell Thigpen, also known as Rudy Thigpen, turned himself into…
Biloxi police arrested a man today on aggravated assault and kidnapping charges after a woman told police she had been held against her will for nearly 12 hours. Twenty-five year-old Gulfport native Ryan Chipman was arrested after police received a…
A Greenwood man is behind bars for armed robbery in Gulfport. According to police, 18-year-old Kelton Osborne was involved in the armed robbery on May 2nd at the Subway located on Highway 49 near Dedeaux Road. Witnesses say that an…
Gautier police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred last night at El Tapatio Mexican Restaurant in Gautier. Around 11 p.m., officers were called to the scene where they found the victim bound to a chair in the restaurant’s office.…
A Moss Point man is behind bars following a shooting that occurred Friday afternoon on Whitmore Street in Pascagoula, sending one man to the hospital. According to the Pascagoula Police Department, the motive appeared to be to intimidate a victim…
Gulfport police held a press conference concerning a dangerous batch of drugs being sold on the streets. News 25’s Gina Tomlinson has more on what the community needs to know.
Biloxi police arrested 23-year-old April Mitchell on outstanding burglary warrant. The warrant stems from an investigation in December 2016 from Popp’s Ferry Road where Mitchell confronted her ex-boyfriends new girlfriend inside of their apartment. Mitchell assaulted the new girlfriend. She…
Moss Point police are actively looking for the man behind a shooting that occurred Wednesday afternoon at 4827 Tanner Street. The suspect is believed to be 30-year-old David Jones. He’s described as a 5’7 160 pound black male. He currently…
Police arrested a Gulfport woman for allegedly stealing items out of a vehicle parked in the IP Casino parking garage. Thirty-year-old Jennifer Gibson was arrested by Biloxi police for the incident that happened on April 19th. She was identified by…
Two Biloxi police officers are injured after a call reporting a man armed with a machete. Police arrested 37-year-old Telly Dixon at the Palm Isle Apartments shortly before 6 o’clock this morning. A resident of the Palm Isle Apartments sustained…
A Biloxi man pled guilty yesterday to one count of knowingly possessing visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Forty-five-year-old Christopher Smith’s phone possessed pictures of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct under the age of 12. He…
Waveland police are on the lookout for a suspect who stole a backpack from Walmart and then proceeded to rob the Woodforest Bank located inside the store. According to Chief David Allen, around 2:50 this afternoon, a small white sedan…
A Gulfport couple was arrested for allegedly growing marijuana at their home. Police arrested 37-year-old Merrill Potter and 38-year-old Sarah Bowers after responding to a call of a domestic dispute. While at the residence, officers discovered several marijuana plants growing…
A Gulfport man is behind bars for reportedly choking a juvenile. Thirty-year-old Emmanuel McClendon was arrested after the juvenile arrived at Memorial Hospital with injuries from being choked on Sunday. McClendon was charged with one count of aggravated domestic assault…
A 30-year-old Biloxi man has been indicted on charges of watching a 13-year-old girl take a shower at a resort in Latimer in August last year. William Simmons was arrested on a traffic stop. Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell says…
Biloxi police are asking for help identifying a man involved in the theft of a cell phone at the Palace Casino in Biloxi. The suspect stole the cell phone and concealed the phone and left the casino. He was last…
Twenty-three year-old Dominique Macon of Gulfport pled guilty today to sexual battery and home burglary crimes that he committed nearly two years ago. The convictions resulted from a disclosure by a nine-year-old child to his parents and to Gulfport police…
Forty-five year-old Gulfport native Robert Thomas pled guilty to two counts of armed robbery and was sentenced to 30 years in prison today. This case began in September of last year after two Subway employees on 25th Avenue in Gulfport…
Biloxi police are asking the public’s help in identifying a woman they say stole more than $200 worth of clothing from Belk at Edgewater Mall. The woman is described as a white female about 5’6” and 180 to 200 pounds.…
Two men are in custody and one man is wanted after an overnight shooting in Gulfport on Saturday, leaving a man in critical condition. Twenty-year-old London Taylor and 38-year-old Shannon Durr have been arrested for robbing a man and shooting…