A Kentucky man has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of sex crimes in Harrison County. 55-year-old Jimmy Joe Davis was in court in May and the jury was deliberating charges of sexual battery and touching a…
A man who fled the Harrison County courthouse just before a jury convicted him of sex crimes against a 7-year-old child has been captured. On May 28, 54-year-old Jimmy Joe Davis was being tried on one count of sexual battery…
A man wanted in multiple states on sex crime charges was located in Ocean Springs on Wednesday morning and arrested by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Fugitive Task Force. 51-year-old James Wilkins was located at a construction site in Ocean…
A Jones County man accused of killing another person on February 18 has been arrested in Florida. According to a press release from the Jones County Sheriff's Department, deputies responded to a reported shooting at a home. They found a…
U.S. Marshals and the Pearl River County Sheriff's Office arrested a wanted felon at a home on Laser Lane in Carriere on Tuesday morning. 30-year-old James Bearrie Hylton was wanted on a federal probation violation out of North Carolina…
A woman arrested on an armed robbery charge in Hancock County is also wanted in Alabama and Georgia. The suspect is accused of robbing the Dollar General on Highway 43 in Hancock County at gunpoint on Sunday, then leading law…
Biloxi Police helped an agency from Georgia capture a suspect in a double homicide who had fled to Mississippi. Chamblee Police in Georgia contacted Biloxi Police about a possible location of the suspect, 55-year-old Pedro Armentero Mesa. Officers were told…
After a three day manhunt, a fugitive wanted out of Georgia and Stone County is behind bars in South Mississippi. According to Stone County Criminal Investigator Ray Boggs, Jessie Hughes was captured and taken into custody around 1 this afternoon.…
STONE COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV) — A wanted fugitive is on the run in South Mississippi. Jessie Eugene Hughes was last seen running from Stone County Sheriff’s Department deputies near East McHenry Road late Wednesday. He is described as a white…
In McHenry tonight, authorities in Stone County are searching for a wanted fugitive. Jessie Hughes was last seen running from Stone County deputies near East McHenry Road. He is described as a white male with green eyes and brown hair.…
Detectives find a fugitive from Key West, Florida sleeping in an abandoned home in Gautier after a Biloxi witness tips off police. According to Gautier Detective Christopher Brown, 42-year-old William Baker skipped out on his sentencing hearing last week after…
A multi-hour standoff has resulted in the arrest of one man in Ocean Springs today. After nearly three hours, authorities on the Coast were able to apprehend a fugitive wanted in Florida. Officers didn’t find anything inside of the RV…