A Vancleave man pleads guilty to exploitation of a child in Jackson County circuit court. According to Assistant District Attorney Carolyn Lewis, In April of 2022, investigators were made aware of sexual images of a child being uploaded to the…
By Lawrence Hurley President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to block criminal proceedings in his hush money case in New York, with a sentencing hearing scheduled for Friday. The court has asked New York prosecutors to respond to…
A Gulfport teen will spend 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to the shooting of an Uber driver in 2023. District Attorney Crosby Parker said 19-year-old Trinyell Coats Jr., of Gulfport pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated assault for the…
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Updated 12:12 PM CDT, September 6, 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — A judge agreed Friday to postpone Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case until after the November election, granting him a hard-won reprieve as he…
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to about 20 years in prison for his part in torturing two Black men after a neighbor complained that the men were staying in a…
35-year-old Alan Moran - the former Diamondhead city councilman accused of making sexual advancements on a 17-year-old boy - was back in Hancock County Circuit Court for his…
The sentencing for Alan Moran in his sex crimes case has been handed down. The 35-year-old former Diamondhead City Councilman was back in Hancock County Circuit Court this morning after pleading guilty to two of the four charges he faced…
A Biloxi man will serve more than six years in prison for assaulting law enforcement officers during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on…
Chancery Court Judge Neil Harris has appointed a guardian ad litem, or a court investigator, to examine Ocean Springs businessman Scott Walker’s health before he is sentenced on a criminal contempt charge. Harris had initially sentenced Walker…
A woman convicted of felony DUI causing death was sentenced today in court. Twenty-one year-old Kaleigh Dartez was sentenced to 25 years in prison with 12 suspended, leaving 13 years to serve. In November 2014, Dartez was the driver in…
The sentencing phase begins today for former corrections commissioner Christopher Epps. This is for his participation in a bribery scandal a little over two years ago. After pleading guilty, Epps faces up to 23 years in prison and is forfeiting…
Facing sentencing for the 2014 murder of Ja’Naya Thompson, Alberto Garcia told a detective he ‘always tries to stay on the straight and narrow.'It could take as long as Thursday to decided Garcia’s sentencing. Facing death or life without parole,…
A federal judge has sentenced contractor Sean H. Anthony to six months of house arrest and three years of probation for his role in the Harrison County Utility Authority scandal. Anthony pleaded guilty in March of 2015 to offering everything…
The sentencing for former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps has been delayed. Epps was scheduled to be sentenced this morning. The former prisons chief pleaded guilty in February of 2015 to money laundering and filing false tax returns related to…
Ken McClenic served nearly 30 years with the Sheriff's Department before he was let go in January of 2014 by Interim Sheriff Charles Britt because of his indictment.
The tenth and final player in the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (M.D.M.R.) corruption case was sentenced in federal court Monday in Hattiesburg.
State Auditor, Stacey Pickering, announced Monday that former Department of Marine Resources Chief of Staff, Joseph Ziegler, has been sentenced to three years’ probation.