UPDATE: Hancock County man accused of fathering child with 16-year-old victim
A 44-year-old man is in jail, charged with sex crimes against a minor child. Dan Cochran was arrested Friday evening, charged with sexual battery and…
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Gulfport man charged with sexual battery
A man accused of having sexual intercourse will a juvenile on multiple occasions has been charged with sexual battery. Gulfport Police Chief Adam Cooper said 71-year-old David Lee Grizzle was arrested on Monday. Cooper said detectives learned that Grizzle was…
Pass Christian man accused of molesting child
A Pass Christian man has been charged with sexual battery, accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl. Sheriff Troy Peterson said 32-year-old Dylan Lee Necaise was arrested this morning. His bond was set at $500,000. Peterson said investigators were told by…
Arrested and charged with sexual battery and lustful touching of a child
On Friday, December 30th, 2022 around 3:41 PM, Biloxi Police received a complaint of an assault, involving a child under the age of 16. During the course of the investigation, 31-year-old Carvell Anthony Glispy of Biloxi, was identified as the…
Gulfport man to serve life sentence for sexual battery of child
A Gulfport man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of molesting a child for more than six years. Judge Larry Bourgeois sentenced 67-year-old William Issac Arnold today after a three-day trial. The jury took…
Found guilty of sexual battery and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon
A Jackson County jury found Dion Neal guilty of sexual battery and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The assault happened in March 2018. Neal and the victim were fishing on CCC Camp Road when the assault…
Three charged and jailed on child sex charges in Jackson County
Three people are jailed in the Jackson County Adult Detention Center on child sex charges. In early April, investigators followed up on information they received from the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services regarding the alleged abuse of a 14-year-old…
Moss Point man charged with sexual battery against juveniles
A Moss Point man is charged with two counts of sexual battery in a case involving a 13-year-old and a 14-year-old. Moss Point Police Chief Brandon Ashley said Damarion M. Reeves, 19, was charged with two counts of sexual battery…
Biloxi man pleads guilty to sexual battery of two children
Biloxi, Miss – District Attorney W. Crosby Parker announced today that Laterrance Nathan, age 43, of Biloxi, Mississippi pled guilty earlier this week to two different crimes of sexual battery against two young girls. Judge Christopher Schmidt sentenced Nathan to…
Greene County man pleads guilty to sexual battery on a child
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…
Gulfport man sentenced in sexual battery of a child case
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…
Jackson County man to serve 25 years after pleading guilty to sexual battery of a child
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…
Gulfport man convicted of sexual battery and sentenced to life
Gulfport, Miss. – District Attorney W. Crosby Parker announced today that Kelvin Green, 60, was found guilty of the charge of Sexual Battery by a Harrison County jury late last week. After the three-day trial, the jury deliberated for approximately…
Man found guilty of four counts of sexual battery, four counts of touching a child for lustful purposes
Bay St. Louis, MS - District Attorney W. Crosby Parker announced that 77-year-old Harry Lynn Trest, of Diamondhead, MS, was found guilty of four counts of sexual battery and four counts of touching a child for lustful purposes after a…
Lucedale man charged in sexual abuse of a child case
George County Sheriff's Department have arrested a Lucedale man in a case regarding the sexual abuse of a child. Sheriff's deputies responded to a report of possible sexual abuse of a child on Monday night in the area of Walters…
Biloxi man charged in case of kidnapping juvenile, sexual battery of a minor
A Biloxi man is charged having sex with a juvenile and then refusing to let the child leave the premises. Biloxi Police on Monday arrested Calvin Jaquarious Williams, 25, on charges of kidnapping and sexual battery of a person under…
Gulfport man to serve 25 years for sexual battery of a child
A Gulfport man will serve 25 years day-for-day without possibility of early release or parole after he was convicted of sexual battery on a 5-year-old child. Circuit Judge Christopher Schmidt sentenced Clyde Fitzgerald Blocton, 35, on Friday. He was convicted…
Arrested on a felony charge of sexual battery
The Harrison County Sheriff’s Office has arrested one man on a felony charge of sexual battery. Sheriff Troy Peterson announced the arrest of 79-year-old Westley Andrew Gervais in Saucier. According to the sheriff, deputies received information that Gervais engaged in…
Biloxi man arrested on charges of sexual battery and child pornography
(WXXV) — The Biloxi Police Department have arrested 20-year-old William Eugene Bridenbaker of Biloxi on charges of sexual battery and four counts of child pornography. The arrest was the result of an investigation into a complaint in which Bridenbaker allegedly…
Gulfport man arrested for sexual assault of 17-year-old girl, police say
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV) — One man is behind bars for sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl, according to authorities. Sheriff Troy Peterson announced the arrest of 35-year-old Nickolas Dewayne Shults of Gulfport on a felony charge of Sexual Battery. According…
Coast man wanted by U.S. Marshals
A Coast man is now one of the most sought after fugitives in the entire country. The United States Marshal’s Service is now offering a $25,000 reward for information leading directly to the arrest of Jacob Blair Scott. Scott is…
Three Mississippi prison guards charged with sexual battery
Three guards at a Mississippi prison have been arrested. The guards, whose names have not been released, work at Yazoo County Regional Correction Facility. WLBT-TV reports the three are charged with sexual battery after being accused last month of having…
Felony sexual battery arrest
A man is behind bars in Harrison County after a victim came forward with sex abuse claims. Twenty-eight year-old Nolan Wallace of Gulfport was arrested on three felony charges of sexual battery. According to Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson, the…
Fmr. School Bus Driver Found Guilty of Sexual Battery, Touching of a Child
After a grueling trial and gripping testimony from the alleged victim, a jury convicted and sentenced former Ocean Springs bus driver, Sergio Sandoval, of sexual assault and battery.
