Detroit, AL Crime & Safety

MANTACHIE, Miss. (WTVA) - A man is charged with stealing a Mantachie police vehicle and leading law enforcement officers on a two-county chase. According to a news release from the Itawamba County Sheriff’s Department, the incident happened Saturday evening, Aug. 6 shortly before midnight. Mantachie police responded to a...

ITWAMABA COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – A man has been arrested after allegedly stealing a Mantachie police car and leading law enforcement on a two county chase. 31-year-old Robert Earl Spradling was taken into custody after spike strips were used to stop him. Itawamba County investigators say the incident happened...

FULTON, Miss. (WTVA) - A police cruiser collided with the rear of a school bus in Itawamba County Monday morning, Aug. 8. Fulton Police Chief Brad Rogers said the incident happened at approximately 7:30 on Adams Street. The police chief reported zero injuries and said the collision caused minor damage.

OXFORD • A former Amory High School teacher charged in federal court with 10 counts of the sexual exploitation of children will have to remain in jail until his trial.

ABERDEEN, Miss. (WTVA) - Much like the rest of the country, the Aberdeen Police Department needs police officers. Aberdeen Police Chief Quinell Shumpert said he walked into his office on Monday morning to find another letter of resignation under his door. The city currently has 13 officers and needs five...

The collision was reported at around 7:30 p.m. near the intersection of Old Wren Road and Wren Cemetary Road. It was reported that 22-year-old James Strawhorn was driving a motorcycle on the roadway. Strawhorn was involved in a collision with a four-wheeler operated by 54-year-old Vincent Hale. The cause of...

AMORY, Miss. (WTVA) - A man died more than a week after he was involved in a Monroe County crash. Monroe County Coroner Alan Gurley said James Kuykendall, 91, of Amory, died on July 31 from injuries he received in a July 21 crash. He died at the hospital in Tupelo.

AMORY • An Amory man involved in a July 21 motor vehicle accident died 10 days later from his injuries.

SULLIGENT, Ala. (WCBI) – A Lamar County man is behind bars, accused of assaulting a senior citizen. Richard Devin Lewis is charged with felony elderly abuse and misdemeanor assault in the third degree. The charges stem from an incident last Saturday in the 4 thousand block of Highway 278...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Four of the five women charged in connection to the death of a four-month-old girl at a Red Bay daycare appeared in court Wednesday. Court records say Autumn Wells was laying on a nursing pillow when she died, which is illegal in the state of Alabama.

SULLIGENT, Ala. (WTVA) - A Sulligent man was arrested on Thursday, July 28 for allegedly assaulting an elderly man several days earlier. Sulligent Police Chief Rick McDaniel said officers arrested Richard Lewis, 42, of Sulligent, for felony elder abuse, assault and reckless endangerment. The incident happened Saturday morning, July 23...

HAMILTON —Hamilton resident James Ray McCracken was arrested on suspected murder in the first degree charges this weekend on Saturday, July 23, in Hamilton. The Hamilton Police Department, along with the Marion County Sheriff’s Department, made the arrest on the day of the incident. McCracken, 77, born in...

OXFORD, Miss. (WJTV) – On Monday, an Amory man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for producing and distributing child pornography. United States District Judge Neal B. Biggers sentenced Brett Northington, 60, to 360 months in federal prison for using a minor to produce child sexual abuse material and distribute it on the […]

A Mississippi man is accused of stealing more than $18,000 worth of copper from a plumbing company. On July 5, Tupelo police responded to reports of a break-in at Southern Bath & Kitchen at 137 Wallace Street. The business reported that a large amount of copper line was stolen in...

A family is searching for information about the whereabouts of 15-year-old Aiden Oliver, who they say ran away from a boys home in Sheffield on Sunday night. The Franklin County Sheriff's Office shared a Facebook post Tuesday in which Jennifer Oliver says her son, Aiden Oliver, left with another teen boy. The sheriff's office confirmed the Olivers are from Franklin County.

OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) - A judge sentenced an Amory man to 30 years in prison for producing and distributing child pornography. Brett Northington, 60, received the sentence on Monday, July 25. Judge Neal Biggers felt the sentence was necessary to protect children in Northington’s own family and children outside of...

OXFORD • An Amory man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for producing and distributing child pornography.

TUPELO • A Lee County man is behind bars after being accused of stealing more than $18,000 worth of copper from a Tupelo plumbing company.