{"id":128270,"date":"2023-04-25T15:04:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T20:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=128270"},"modified":"2023-04-26T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T16:25:29","slug":"memphis-man-arrested-on-highway-7-south-for-possession-of-firearm-by-a-convicted-felon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/memphis-man-arrested-on-highway-7-south-for-possession-of-firearm-by-a-convicted-felon\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Man Arrested on Highway 7 South for Possession of Firearm by a Convicted Felon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On April 18, 2023, the <strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> responded to a report of a careless driver on <strong>Highway 7 South<\/strong>. While conducting the traffic stop, officers found a handgun in the vehicle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christopher Jones<\/strong>, 35, of <strong>Memphis, Tennessee<\/strong>, was arrested and charged with Possession of Firearm by a convicted felon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jones was taken before a <strong>Lafayette County Justice Court<\/strong> judge for his initial bond hearing and issued a $10,000 bond.<\/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-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Christopher-Jones.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Christopher-Jones.png?resize=640%2C476\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Christopher-Jones.png?resize=1024%2C762&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Christopher-Jones.png?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Christopher-Jones.png?resize=768%2C572&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Christopher-Jones.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Christopher Jones, 35, of Memphis, Tennessee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 18, 2023, the Oxford Police Department responded to a report of a careless driver on Highway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":128274,"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":[25212,19578,468,5,4,2092,2676],"class_list":["post-128270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-christopher-jones","tag-highway-7-south","tag-memphis","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-tennessee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Christopher-Jones.png?fit=1280%2C953&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128270","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=128270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}