{"id":113742,"date":"2021-09-07T16:38:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=113742"},"modified":"2021-09-07T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:38:26","slug":"former-mayor-candidate-in-oxford-mississippi-arrested-for-grand-larceny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/former-mayor-candidate-in-oxford-mississippi-arrested-for-grand-larceny\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Mayor Candidate in Oxford, Mississippi Arrested for Grand Larceny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On September 3, 2021, at approximately 7:30 pm, officers were dispatched to <strong>Marquis Chevron<\/strong> on <strong>South Lamar Blvd<\/strong>. and the <strong>Marathon Gas Station<\/strong> on South Lamar Blvd. for a reported\u00a0theft of money. Officers learned that a current employee at both locations, who was off duty at the\u00a0time, entered the businesses and took roughly $2,800 from the two locations. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect was identified as <strong>Brandon Pettis<\/strong>, 19, of <strong>Oxford<\/strong>, <strong>Mississippi<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-race-is-on-qa-with-candidates-for-mayor-of-oxford-mississippi-robyn-tannehill-and-brandon-pettis\/\">Pettis was a candidate for Mayor of the City of Oxford<\/a> in the 2021 elections earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators were called to the scene and a search warrant was obtained which ultimately led to the discovery of the missing money. Pettis was subsequently arrested for Grand Larceny. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Lafayette County Justice Court judge issued Pettis a $15,000 bond. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is still an ongoing investigation and further information could be added at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Brandon-Pettis.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"401\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Brandon-Pettis.png?resize=401%2C304\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-113743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Brandon-Pettis.png?w=401&amp;ssl=1 401w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Brandon-Pettis.png?resize=300%2C227&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 3, 2021, at approximately 7:30 pm, officers were dispatched to Marquis Chevron on South Lamar Blvd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":113743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10397],"tags":[18669,19328,4379,15168,19327,15800,1399,5,4,2092,19326],"class_list":["post-113742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-brandon-pettis","tag-candidate","tag-city-of-oxford","tag-grand-larceny","tag-marathon-gas-station","tag-marquis-chevron","tag-mayor","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-south-lamar-blvd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Brandon-Pettis.png?fit=401%2C304&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}