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Apr. 6—Longtime Pontotoc County Sheriff John Christian announced Friday that he will not seek reelection. Although Christian had been with the office previously, he was elected as sheriff in ...
Will Arthur Bell was lynched by a mob in Pontotoc County, Mississippi as the local sheriff tried to move him to prevent the lynching. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 6th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States. [1]
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Mississippi.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 342 law enforcement agencies employing 7,707 sworn police officers, about 262 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
Pontotoc County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,184. [1] Its county seat is Pontotoc. [2] It was created on February 9, 1836, from lands ceded to the United States under the Chickasaw Cession.
A Mississippi sheriff said Tuesday that he has not ruled out the possibility of murder in the case of Rasheem Carter, months after initially saying there was “no reason” to suspect foul play
Aug. 17—TUPELO — A Union County man is being held without bond, accusing of robbing a gas station, kidnapping the clerk and stealing their car Wednesday afternoon. Tupelo police responded Aug ...
Pontotoc is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Mississippi, located to the west of the larger city of Tupelo. The population was 5,640 at the 2020 census. Pontotoc is a Chickasaw word that means, “Land of the Hanging Grapes.”
The Pontotoc County Sheriff's Department, District Attorney's Office, and experts in Archeology and Anthropology affiliated with Mississippi State University participated in the search for Felicia Cox's remains. On December 13, 2021, the authorities were able to locate a set of human remains at the location where Cox reportedly buried his ...