Authorities in Mississippi said a former Warren County official with direct access to a wide range of funds embezzled six figures over a period of nearly a year beginning in late 2017. According to WLBT, Paula Hunt was the office bookkeeper for the county’s tax collector’s office and had the power to move its funds …
A Mississippi man who raped a 12-year-old girl hours after approaching her in a bathroom was sentenced to prison on Tuesday. The Clarion Ledger reported that Valentin Ariosto Alfronso-Arguello, 38, will serve 20 years in prison for the sexual battery committed after approaching the victim in a bathroom at the restaurant he worked at. Authorities …
A manhunt is underway for a Mississippi man accused of raping and impregnating his 14-year-old stepdaughter who allegedly staged his death in Alabama as he faced criminal charges. The teen victim’s mother told the Sun Herald said she knew ex-husband Jacob Blair Scott, 42, had not actually killed himself after authorities didn’t locate a body in Scott’s …
Two sisters in Mississippi—ages 12 and 14—are accused of fatally stabbing and shooting their mother inside their mobile home on Friday evening. Per WLBT, Erica Hall, 32, was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly after being found lying bloodied in the front yard of her Magnolia home. Hall’s relatives told the news station that the woman’s two …
A police agency in Mississippi announced it would be demoting an officer after he ditched his former canine partner at an area animal shelter. According to the Huffington Post, Carl Ellis took ownership of Ringo after the K-9 officer retired earlier this year. Apparently reconsidering the arrangement, however, he reportedly turned the dog over to …
Authorities in Mississippi say a woman who had recently been released from police custody following her fourth arrest for allegedly driving under the influence caused a Thanksgiving Day crash that left three dead, including her. According to WLOX,, five vehicles were involved in the head-on collision along Interstate 59 in Pearl River on Thursday. State …
New details in the gruesome death of a toddler found stabbed and burned inside of her grandmother’s home indicate she was still alive when she was placed inside the oven where her body was recovered earlier this month. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 48-year-old Carolyn Jones was arrested on the same night her granddaughter was found …
New details have emerged in the case of a Mississippi toddler found on Monday inside a heated oven at her grandmother’s home. CBS Memphis reports that on Monday evening, Bolivar County officers arrived at a small, tan home in Shaw, off of Martin Luther King Drive, after a family member discovered a 20-month-old deceased toddler girl, Royalty Floyd, in the …
The grandmother of a 20-month-old girl is in custody after Mississippi deputies reportedly found the toddler’s body in an oven, with stab wounds. The Clarion Ledger reported that the toddler girl’s body was taken to a crime lab to undergo an autopsy. The grandmother’s identity is unknown at this point in time as she hasn’t …
Authorities in Mississippi are investigating following reports that someone stabbed a baby before placing them into an oven—baking them. WTVA reported that emergency crews were called to a residence in Shaw at around 7 p.m. Monday. Responding officers reportedly found the baby, whose age was undisclosed, at the scene. How do you protect your children …
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — The founding member and former bassist of the rock band 3 Doors Down has been sentenced to 10 years in Mississippi state prison for possession of a firearm by a felon. News outlets report Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Robert Krebs gave Todd Harrell the maximum penalty during a hearing Thursday. …
The testimony phase of the retrial of a Mississippi man charged with the burning death of a 19-year-old woman has ended. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 29-year-old Quinton Tellis was in court again last week after a mistrial on murder charges last year. He was arrested on suspicion of causing fatal injuries to Jessica Chambers, who …
