In light of the recent social unrest that is prevalent in the United States and globally, I am reminded of the effort and battles that my forefathers and ancestors endured to allow me to sit behind the desk of the District Attorney for the Fourth District of Mississippi. When you look across our Country, many people are upset, angry and …
Greenwood, MS – On February 10, 2020, after a multi-day sentencing hearing, Leflore County Circuit Judge Margaret Carey-McCray sentenced twenty-three-year-old Georgia native Jordan Phillip Johnson in the armed robbery of Hiram Eastland, Jr., the commercial burglary of his law office, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, the armed robbery of Richard Logan, and two separate cases of possession …
Indianola, MS- Earlier today at the Sunflower Courthouse defendants, Garrick Price and Damien Ross were found guilty in the 2017 shooting that resulted in the death of Arron Beamon and the wounding of others, District Attorney W. Dewayne Richardson announced today. A Sunflower County Grand Jury indicted Price and Ross for shooting Savantae Pernell, Zachary Lee and killing Arron Beamon …
District Attorney W. Dewayne Richardson announced this week that Marshall Anderson pled guilty Tuesday morning in Washington County Circuit Court to robbing Woodforest Bank, located inside the Wal-Mart Shopping Center on Highway 1 South. With the case set for trial before Judge Carol White-Richard this week, Anderson chose instead to plead guilty to the charge brought against him. Anderson was …
Greenville, MS – John Lee Eanes pled guilty to the November 2016 murder of Sophia White on August 13, 2019. He pled guilty prior to trial in front of Circuit Court Judge Carol White-Richard. Eanes, who at the time of his guilty plea was 77 years of age, was convicted of the crime of Second Degree Murder and sentenced to …
Greenwood – On July 22, 2019, Leflore County Circuit Judge Carol White-Richard accepted the guilty plea of Holmes County native Kavotreiuos Gould and sentenced him in one case of malicious mischief and five separate cases of aggravated assault. Gould was originally indicted by the January 2019 Leflore County grand jury along with his brother Lavotreious Gould, and Jumeario Williams for …
Greenville, MS—James Williams, Jr. of Greenville entered a guilty plea to the crime of Sexual Battery in May, District Attorney Dewayne Richardson announced today. Williams pled guilty on the eve of his trial set to begin the week of May 20 in the Circuit Court of Washington County. Williams’ charge stemmed from an incident occurring in the Summer of 2018—less …
Greenville, MS – On May 2, 2019, Washington County Circuit Judge Margaret Carey-McCray sentenced Andrew McClinton, 47 years of age, for the arson that destroyed the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church. McClinton was sentenced to twenty (20) years with the Mississippi Department of Corrections. McClinton will have to serve ten (10) years of the sentence in custody as a Habitual Offender, …
Indianola, MS- At the Leflore County Courthouse on April 30, 2019, Judge Richard Smith sentenced Dwayne Dabney in the Sunflower County Circuit Court case that stemmed from the November 13, 2016 shooting death of 15 year-old Earnestia “Ne Ne” Hunter, District Attorney W. Dewayne Richardson announced today. Earnestia Hunter was shot and killed outside her home on November 13, 2016; …
Greenwood, MS – On April 1, 2019, both Quandarius Williams and Renae Marie Canada pled guilty to the June 7, 2017 shooting death and armed robbery of Desmond Baker. After three local men found Baker on a Leflore County road with a gunshot wound to his head, investigators with the Leflore County Sheriff’s Department worked tirelessly to discover who was …
