A Harrison County jury on Thursday sentenced two men to prison for the 2022 murder of one man and armed robbery of another in a drug deal gone bad. District Attorney W. Crosby Parker said 28-year-old Erick Hunt of Jackson…
A Vancleave man will spend 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to DUI in the death of his girlfriend. 36-year-old Michael Grimes was sentenced Friday to 25 years, with 22 to serve and 3 years of post-release supervision in…
A St. Martin man will spend 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to kills his mother. 30-year-old Grady Walker pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced Monday in Jackson County Circuit Court to 20 years with…
An Ocean Springs man will spend 45 years in prison for causing the deaths of sisters from New Orleans in a drunk driving collision in 2022. 45-year-old Joseph Nangle was sentenced to two 25-year sentences with 45 years to serve…
A Moss Point man will 18 years in prison after being convicted of aggravated domenstic violence. Judge Kathy King Jackson sentenced 34-year-old Shamon Perryman this week to 20 years with 18 to serve and two years of probation. Perryman was…
By Ryan J. Reilly WASHINGTON — The very first rioter to breach the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison on Tuesday after telling a judge that he still believes Donald…
A Walnut Grove man will serve 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to drug charges this week. District Attorney W. Crosby Parker said 53-year-old Danny Donrull Bolton pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance with intent. Circuit Court…
State Auditor Shad White announced Thursday that Hope Bishop, the former vice president of Human Resources at the Mississippi Lottery Corporation, has pleaded guilty to embezzlement. She was sentenced to 20 years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of…
A Biloxi man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the 2020 death and dismemberment of a man at a trailer park. District Attorney W. Crosby Parker said 45-year-old Clint Barrett Brower pleaded guilty Monday morning to…
A Biloxi man will spend 40 years in prison after being convicted on child porn charges. District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath said 50-year-old Travis Damon Wade was convicted Thursday on three counts of possession of child pornography and three counts…
The Justice Department announced today its findings that conditions of confinement at three Mississippi Department of Corrections facilities violate the 8th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The Department’s 60-page report details its findings from a thorough investigation of…
A 37-year-old Biloxi man, already in state prison on a 40-year-sentence on sex crimes, pleaded guilty to federal sex crime charges. Quincy LaBauve was sentenced in Harrison County in 2018 to one count of sexual battery and two counts of…
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail on April 22 has been found dead at a truck stop in New Orleans, authorities announced Tuesday. A security guard patrolling the truck stop Sunday…
A 19-year-old Biloxi man will spend seven years in prison for a 2021 drive-by shooting. Erick Martin pleaded guilty on Tuesday and was sentenced to 15 years, with seven to serve. Martin, who was 17 when the shooting happened, was…
A Vancleave man was convicted of multiple domestic violence offenses after trying to kidnap his ex-wife. Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McInrath said 43-year-old Darrell Ray Morris was convicted Friday of aggravated stalking, possession of a weapon by a…
A George County man will spend 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to beating his girlfriend, burglary and auto burglary. Brandon Chase Tanner, 37, pleaded guilty last week to aggravated domestic violence and the burglary charges. Judge Dale Harkey…
A Harrison County man will spend more than 20 years in prison after impregnating a 13-year-old girl. District Attorney Crosby Parker said 40-year-old- Antonio Cantrell Owens pleaded guilty last week to sexual battery and was sentenced to 22 years day-for-day,…
A Kiln man pleaded guilty Thursday in Hancock County Circuit Court to burglary of a dwelling and will serve 25 years. 33-year-old Antonio Joseph Connetti was sentenced the same day by Judge Christopher Schmidt for the July 7, 2021 burglary…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former deputy warden at the Mississippi State Penitentiary has pleaded guilty in a case involving the beating of an inmate, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday. In a news release, officials said Melvin Hilson, 49,…
The inmate who escaped from a Mississippi prison for the second time has been recaptured in Harrison County, the Department of Corrections posted to its social media site. Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson said in a press release that Michael…
PEARL, Miss. (AP) — An inmate who escaped from a Mississippi prison received an ambulance ride to a hospital after telling someone he was bleeding because he had been in a motorcycle accident, a state Department of Corrections spokesman said…
A Leakesville man will spend 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual battery on a child. Joseph Herman Beckwith Jr., 23, was accused of sexually assaulting a then-2-year-old child in Greene County. Judge Kathy King Jackson sentenced Beckwith…
A Gulfport man was sentenced to 40 years in prison during a hearing in Stone County after pleading guilty to two counts of sexual battery of a child. Judge Randi P. Mueller sentenced Joshua David Hollon, 37, of Gulfport…
A Jackson County man will spend 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual battery and touching a child for lustful purposes. Cory William Skalla, 44, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery and one count of touching…