On July 21, 2023 the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division received an anonymous tip concerning Joseph Peter Berge III, a wanted fugitive from Washington State since October 2019. Joseph Berge was believed to be living with his girlfriend,…
Jeffrey M. Czimmer has been reported missing and is a level-one Sex Offender in the state of New York. Investigators with Jackson County Sheriff's Department say Czimmer has ties to the Coast and believe he may be in our area.…
A tip that a convicted sex offender was with an 11-year-old girl prompted an investigation and arrest of a Carriere man in Harrison County. Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson said 40-year-old Michael Anthony Rester was arrested about noon today after…
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 former Jackson County Sheriff's Deputy will spend the next forty years behind bars. 48-year old Jason McGrath was sentenced to 40 years, day for day, on four counts of sexual battery and one count Of touching of a child…
A 74-year-old man is behind bars on felony charges for failing to give his correct address when registering as a sex offender. Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson tells News 25 Archie McManus Jr. of Long Beach put a false address…
The man many say received too lenient a sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman registers as a sex offender. This morning, Brock Turner arrived at the Greene County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio where he registered as a convicted sex…
A 27-year-old Long Beach man will have to register as a sex offender, after a jury found him guilty of secretly videotaping a woman and violating her privacy. Matthew Pierce was a licensed massage therapist and owned a business in…
Two convicted sex offenders were arrested in Jackson County. Twenty-nine year-old Antonio Clark was picked back up on an outstanding warrant for failing to appear and re-register every 90 days as required by the state. He was arrested in Ocean…