Ecru man facing charges in two states
By William Moore Daily Journal NEW ALBANY – A Pontotoc County man is facing felony charges in Missouri and Mississippi after fleeing a safety checkpoint Tuesday night. Donovan Lipich, 44, of Subertown...
View ArticleFulton truck driver missing since March 17
WILSON By Adam Armour Itawamba County Times FULTON – The search continues for a Fulton truck driver who has been missing for two weeks. Danny Wilson, 46, a driver with Cooley Trucking, left Fulton on...
View ArticleGuntown pair face Prentiss drug charges
POTTS SCRUGGS Daily Journal BOONEVILLE – A safety checkpoint in the Ingram community Monday led to the arrest of a Guntown man and woman. According to Prentiss County Sheriff Randy Tolar, deputies...
View ArticleDrug bust lands Columbus man in Starkville jail
FELTON Daily Journal STARKVILLE – A man stopped for speeding now faces multiple felony charges. Marcos Deshaw Felton, 25, of Columbus, was pulled over for speeding Wednesday. Starkville Police...
View ArticleFour arrested in commercial burglary
HEARD RIMMER Daily Journal TUPELO – The Tupelo Police arrested two men and two juveniles in connection with the burglary of an East Tupelo car lot. Bryson Heard, 20, and Tyrone Rimmer, 22, both of...
View ArticleTupelo man faces multiple drug charges
BULLARD Daily Journal TUPELO – A Tupelo man is in jail on multiple drug charges. Nathan Bullard, 36, of Tupelo, was arrested by Tupelo Police and the North Mississippi Narcotics Unit on Wednesday. The...
View ArticleMotel shooting suspect extradited from Alabama
TRICE Daily Journal A man charged in a motel shooting has been extradited from Alabama, according to Tupelo Police. Norman Obryan Trice, 28, of Tupelo, faces an aggravated assault charge. On Dec. 26,...
View ArticleParents arrested in death of infant daughter
HOLLY SPRINGS (AP) – Prosecutors have charged Marshall County parents in the death of their 2-month-old daughter. Jeremiah Crenshaw, 22, and Monica Euell, 20, face charges of capital murder and felony...
View ArticleJohnson steps aside as Verona Police Chief
JOHNSON By William Moore Daily Journal VERONA – Citing allegations of micro-management by the board of aldermen, Verona Police Chief Bill Johnson turned in his badge and gun Thursday night. “I left the...
View ArticleWreck totals deputy patrol vehicle, truck
By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – A Lee County Sheriff’s deputy responding to a call was involved in a wreck Friday morning. The deputy and the female driver of the other vehicle were both...
View ArticleTwo killed in Corinth shooting
Daily Journal CORINTH – Police are investigating a Saturday night shooting that left two men dead at the Nash Way Apartments. The Corinth Police Department is actively seeking to persons of interest in...
View ArticleCorinth police believe shooting gang-related; victims identified
By W. Derek Russell Daily Journal CORINTH – A shooting that left two dead in Corinth on Saturday could have gang ties that reach beyond Alcorn County. Corinth Police Chief Ralph Dance said at a news...
View ArticleAmory man charged in break-in
LOPEZ Monroe Journal AMORY – An Amory man has been charged in a break-in. John Christopher Lopez, 33, of Amory, was arrested and charged with burglary (breaking and entering of a dwelling) and grand...
View ArticleHigh-speed chase ends in Amory
EDDY By Emily Tubb Monroe Journal A man who led police on a high speed chase originating in Lee County on Saturday evening was apprehended when he ran over spike strips coming into Amory near the...
View ArticleMissing truck driver returns home
WILSON By Adam Armour Itawamba County Times Officials with the Itawamba County Sheriff’s Department say they have located a Fulton truck driver who had been missing since mid-March, although the...
View ArticleCity leaders break ground on new police headquarters
Adam Robison | Buy at photos.djournal.comTupelo Mayor Jason Shelton helps Beth Stauffer put on a hardhat at the official groundbreaking for the new police headquarters in Tupelo on Monday morning. By...
View ArticleBaldwyn man charged in Saturday stabbing
NORMAN Daily Journal BALDWYN – James M. Norman, 29, of Baldwyn, has been arrested on aggravated assault charges in the stabbing of another man late Saturday night at a Baldwyn gas station. Norman was...
View ArticlePerson shot in Aberdeen
By Ray Van Dusen Monroe Journal ABERDEEN – The Aberdeen Police Department and Monroe County Sheriff’s Office were called to the scene of a shooting Monday night at Shrock’s Auto & Tire on Commerce...
View ArticleVerona citizens plan protest over police chief
JOHNSON By William Moore Daily Journal VERONA – Citizens will have a chance to speak out tonight about the sudden departure of Police Chief Bill Johnson in Verona. During a city meeting last week,...
View ArticleOkolona man facing murder charge
By Floyd Ingram Chickasaw Journal OKOLONA – A woman is dead and her nephew is in custody and facing murder charges following a family dispute that ended in a shooting and standoff with authorities...
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