Yazoo City Crime

Crime, law and justice, and police blotter near Yazoo City, MS or anywhere in the US.

Recent Crime News

• TV reports: Miss. police hold suspe...

  Wednesday May 23 | via Newms360.com 

  A vehicle allegedly driven by a man Authorities are questioning the suspect posing as a law enforcement officer stopping motorists in Humphreys County is impounded in Yazoo City, Miss., Thursday, May 17, 2012.

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  Related Topix: Humphreys County, MS, Yazoo City, MS, Mississippi, Panola County, MS

• The Racism of the Republican Party May Destroy Our D...

  Wednesday May 23 | via BuzzFlash.org 

  Recently Buzzflash at Truthout wrote a commentary entitled, "White Entitlement Americans Face Their Alamo: Minority Births Are Now the Majority." In a recent reflection on the Broadway hit on the farce of American race relations in an allegedly post-racial society, "Clybourne Park," Frank Rich writes of the Obama era: It has certainly encouraged ... (more)

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Rand Paul, Bob McDonnell, US Governors, Haley Barbour, Yazoo City, MS, Newt Gingrich, Crime Movies, Mississippi Burning, Drama Movies, Thriller

• Neighbors: Highway shooting suspect a regular guy

  Friday May 18 | via WDBO-AM Orlando 

  A vehicle allegedly driven by a man Authorities are questioning the suspect posing as a law enforcement officer stopping motorists in Humphreys County is impounded in Yazoo City, Miss., Thursday, May 17, 2012.

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  Related Topix: Humphreys County, MS, Yazoo City, MS

• This Man Shot Two People On A Mississippi Highway [C...

  Friday May 18 | via Jalopnik 

  When police arrested James D. Willie, 28, for allegedly trying to rape a woman, they found that the gun he fired during that altercation was linked to two highway murders in northwest Mississippi .

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  Related Topix: Violent Crime, Yazoo City, MS, Autos

• Mississippi highway shootings: man arrested

  Friday May 18 | via KABC LA 

  An arrest has been made in the two fatal highway shootings in Mississippi that authorities thought were the result of a serial shooter posing as a police officer.

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  Related Topix: Yazoo City, MS, Violent Crime, Hernando, MS, Tunica County, MS

• Arrest gives murder victim's family some relief, but...

  Friday May 18 | via Memphis Commercial Appeal 

  Tom Schlender, 74, of Raymond, Neb., was shot to death while driving through Mississippi on the way to pick up his grandson in Florida.

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  Related Topix: Sardis, MS, Tunica County, MS, Violent Crime, Yazoo City, MS

• Arrest in Mississippi Highway Shootings

  Friday May 18 | via ABC News 

  Authorities in Mississippi have arrested a suspect in the two fatal shootings last week during what authorities initially thought were phony police stops in the northern part of the state.

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  Related Topix: Humphreys County, MS, Yazoo City, MS

• After Mississippi Killings, Man Questioned Following...

  Friday May 18 | via WISW-AM Columbia 

  Authorities are questioning a man over suspicious highway stops in central Mississippi after two fatal shootings last week that apparently occurred during phony police stops in the northern part of the state.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi, Violent Crime, Humphreys County, MS, Yazoo City, MS

• TV reports: Miss. police hold suspected cop-poser

  Thursday May 17 | via Newms360.com 

  A vehicle allegedly driven by a man Authorities are questioning the suspect posing as a law enforcement officer stopping motorists in Humphreys County is impounded in Yazoo City, Miss., Thursday, May 17, 2012.

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  Related Topix: Humphreys County, MS, Yazoo City, MS, Mississippi, Panola County, MS

• Fake cop suspect held: Link to slayings, traffic sto...

  Thursday May 17 | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  A vehicle allegedly driven by a man authorities are questioning is impounded in Yazoo City.

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  Related Topix: Yazoo City, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Madison County, MS, Mississippi

• Suspected police impersonator questioned in Mississippi

  Thursday May 17 | via CNN 

  Mississippi authorities are questioning a man suspected of impersonating a police officer to determine whether he is involved in the killings of two motorists on highways in the state, a sheriff's investigator said Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi, Violent Crime, Yazoo City, MS, Humphreys County, MS

• Fighting teacher featured in MCS ad campaign

  Thursday May 17 | via WMC-TV Memphis 

  Memphis International Memphis Airport Authority is hoping $1 million in incentives will help bring in new air service to Memphis International Airport and cut the prices on those costly flights.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi, Education Etc., Vanderbilt University, Yazoo City, MS

• Wildlife officer weighs in on the Bain sisters' rescue

  Thursday May 17 | via WMC-TV Memphis 

  Arkansas wildlife officer Michael Neal Mississippi wildlife officers found Alexandria and Kyliyah Bain the same day they joined in the intense manhunt for their accused kidnapper, Adam Mayes.

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  Related Topix: Wildlife, Outdoor Recreation

• Man arrested in Humphreys County fake cop case

  Thursday May 17 | via WAPT-TV Jackson 

  A man has been taken into custody after two motorists reported being pulled over by someone impersonating an officer, but investigators could not immediately say if the man was connected to two fatal shootings on Mississippi highways.

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  Related Topix: Humphreys County, MS, Yazoo City, MS, Yazoo County, MS, Silver City, MS

• Police Impersonator in Custody in Mississippi

  Thursday May 17 | via MyEyeWitnessNews.com 

  Authorities in central Mississippi have apprehended a man accused of impersonating a police officer, but they have not said if he is connected to two deadly shootings earlier this month.

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  Related Topix: Humphreys County, MS, Silver City, MS, Yazoo City, MS

• Police Impersonator Arrested in Mississippi

  Thursday May 17 | via MyEyeWitnessNews.com 

  Authorities in central Mississippi have apprehended a man accused of impersonating a police officer, but they have not said if he is connected to two deadly shootings earlier this month.

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  Related Topix: Humphreys County, MS, Silver City, MS, Yazoo City, MS

• Mississippi man shoots at alleged police impersonator

  Tuesday May 15 | via WMC-TV Memphis 

  Fifteen children were on the hayride at Lake Cormorant Elementary School when it turned over just before 10 a.m. No serious injuries North Mississippi investigators are talking with authorities in Yazoo City, Mississippi, after they arrested a man who may have been impersonating an officer Wednesday night.

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• US honors black federal law officer killed in 1883

  Monday May 14 | via Lake Wylie Pilot 

  William Henderson Foote was a black federal law enforcement official in America's Deep South at a time of heightened racial tensions, tasked with collecting liquor tax revenue from wholesalers and retailers in post-Reconstruction Mississippi.

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  Related Topix: Collecting, Life, Hobbies, US News, ATF, Yazoo City, MS

• Possible police impersonator in custody in Humphreys...

  Monday May 14 | via WDAM-TV Hattiesburg 

  A Yazoo City man is being detained by the Humphreys County Sheriff's Department after two people reported being pulled over by someone who did not appear to be a law-enforcement officer.

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  Related Topix: Humphreys County, MS, Yazoo County, MS, Silver City, MS, Yazoo City, MS

• Suspect arrested in deadly Miss. highway shootings

  Feb 18, 2012 | via WMC-TV Memphis 

  Thursday night investigators addressed the possibility an accused police impersonator is the man wanted for two North Mississippi murders.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Yazoo City, MS