Greenwood, MS – District Attorney W. Dewayne Richardson announced this week that on Monday, November 16, 2020, Janarius Street pled guilty in Leflore County Circuit Court for the murder of Laroy Booker. On Christmas Day in 2019, deputies with the Leflore County Sheriff’s Department responded to a 911 call where they discovered Street on his grandmother’s front porch smoking a …
ARMED ROBBER SENTENCED TO 24 YEARS
District Attorney W. Dewayne Richardson announced this week that Mychal Roberts pled guilty Monday, November 2nd, in Washington County Circuit Court for using a firearm to rob several Greenville businesses, including Pizza Hut, Subway, and Double Quick. With the case set for trial, Roberts chose instead to plead guilty to the charges brought against him. Roberts was sentenced to 24 …
REPEAT FELON SENTENCED IN CONTRABAND CONSPIRACY CASE
District Attorney W. Dewayne Richardson announced this week that Johnathan Sutton pled guilty Monday, November 2nd, in Washington County Circuit Court to the charges of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon and Conspiracy to Introduce Contraband into the Washington County Regional Correctional Facility. Sutton chose instead to plead guilty to the charges brought against him rather than to …
Audra Mack’s Killer Pleads Guilty; Sentenced in Murder-Arson
Greenville, MS—Eddie Browley of Greenville pled guilty to Second Degree Murder and First Degree Arson on Monday, November 2, 2020, District Attorney Dewayne Richardson announced today. Shortly before 2 o’ clock in the afternoon on the first day of November in 2018, officers of the Greenville Police Department and firefighters of the Greenville Fire Department were called to Carson Street …
Two Murderers Brought to Justice in Washington County Circuit Court
Greenville, MS – In Greenville, two different homicide cases have been closed during the July 2020 term of court in Washington County, District Attorney Dewayne Richardson announced today. Jonathan Cooper, 39 years old, of Greenville entered a guilty plea to the crime of Second Degree Murder and Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon in late August. Cooper pled …
VOTING RIGHTS RESTORATION AND EXPUNGEMENTS
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 …
LEFLORE COUNTY MAN SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS FOR STRING OF CRIMES
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 …
DAMION ROSS AND GARRICK PRICE CONVICTED OF ALL COUNTS IN SUNFLOWER COUNTY
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 …
WAL-MART BANK ROBBER SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS
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 Man Sentenced for 2016 Murder
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 …