Greenville, MS- Charles “Blink” Williams was sentenced on Monday, April 11, for his role in the 2017 killing of a local man District Attorney W. Dewayne Richardson announced today. Williams was sentenced to the maximum for the offense of manslaughter in open court by Judge Carol White-Richard. Williams pled guilty in May of 2021 to his involvement in the death …
Greenville, MS- Earlier this week Nikeya Harper was convicted following a two-day jury trial by a Washington County Jury for sexual acts committed against a twelve-year-old child. Harper, the child’s stepfather was found guilty of attempted statutory rape and fondling. The case was tried before Circuit Court Judge Richard Smith in the Washington County Courthouse. John Herzog Jr. and Takiyah …
Greenville, MS—Leonard Stevenson, Jr., 28, of Greenville was convicted of a second Capital Murder in Washington County following a two-day jury trial, District Attorney Dewayne Richardson announced today. During the trial, attorneys for the state presented testimony that in the early afternoon of February 4, 2017, friends and business associates of Alonzo Dukes became worried when they had not heard …
Greenville, MS—John Scates, Jr. was sentenced to Twenty-Five (25) years to serve in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections following a sentencing hearing for his conviction of Aggravated Assault with a Firearm Enhancement, District Attorney Dewayne Richardson announced today. A Washington County trial jury announced its guilty verdicts earlier this year in May following a two day trial …
Greenville, MS—Geor’Barri Wells was sentenced to Twenty-Five (25) years to serve in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections stemming from his convictions for Second Degree Murder and Aggravated Assault, District Attorney Dewayne Richardson announced today. Wells was found guilty by a jury of his peers at the conclusion of a three-day trial in July. His indictment arose from …
Greenville, MS—Geor’Barri Wells, 26, of Leland, was found Guilty of Second Degree Murder and Aggravated Assault Saturday in Washington County following a four-day jury trial. In the early morning hours of Thursday, May 10, 2018, officers of the Greenville Police Department were called to the lobby of the Main Street station to assist a citizen who was frantically knocking on …
District Attorney W. Dewayne Richardson announced today that a Washington County Jury returned Guilty verdicts on six (6) criminal charges against Jennifer York on the evening of Wednesday, August 4, 2021. The trial, which began on Monday, August 2, was tried in the Circuit Court of Washington County and presided over by Judge Margaret Carey-McCray. Sentencing in the case has …
District Attorney W. Dewayne Richardson announced this week that Dyana Thomas pled guilty Tuesday, July 20th, and was sentenced on July 23rd, in Leflore County Circuit Court to the charge of sexual battery against a student while he was an assistant principal at Holmes County Central High School. Thomas’s trial was set for July 21st in Leflore County before Judge …
District Attorney W. Dewayne Richardson announced this week that Stephen B. Williams, Jr. of Itta Bena, Mississippi, pled guilty to two counts of first degree murder and was sentenced by Leflore Circuit Judge Ashley Hines to serve two consecutive life sentences for the March 16, 2020 slayings of 49 year old Jacqueline Taylor and 58 year old Freddie Mask in …
Indianola, MS—Lonnie Butler, 33, of Clarksdale was found Guilty of First Degree Murder with a Firearm Enhancement and Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon in Sunflower County following a three-day jury trial, District Attorney Dewayne Richardson announced today. During the trial, the State put before the jury evidence that on the evening of November 21, 2011, Butler shot …
