{"id":131069,"date":"2023-08-04T14:07:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T19:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=131069"},"modified":"2023-08-04T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T19:08:00","slug":"oxford-man-charged-with-three-counts-of-false-pretense-with-more-charges-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-man-charged-with-three-counts-of-false-pretense-with-more-charges-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Man Charged with Three Counts of False Pretense with More Charges Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 28th, 2023, the <strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> responded to a business in the 2100 block of <strong>Jackson Avenue<\/strong> for a report of a bad check. After investigation, <strong>Christopher Bell<\/strong>, 26, of <strong>Oxford<\/strong>, <strong>Mississippi <\/strong>was arrested and has been charged with three counts of False Pretense as of this release with more charges possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bell was taken before a <strong>Lafayette County Justice Court<\/strong> judge for his initial bond hearing and issued a $60,000 bond. It is believed that this crime has occurred at other businesses in town.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have questions, or think this has occurred at your business, please call the Oxford Police Department at 662-232-2400 and ask for <strong>Detective Hollowell<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/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\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Christopher-Bell.jpg?resize=640%2C500\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Christopher-Bell.jpg?resize=1024%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Christopher-Bell.jpg?resize=300%2C235&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Christopher-Bell.jpg?resize=768%2C600&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Christopher-Bell.jpg?w=1113&amp;ssl=1 1113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Christopher Bell, 26, of Oxford, Mississippi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 28th, 2023, the Oxford Police Department responded to a business in the 2100 block of Jackson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":131070,"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":[26217,8747,26216,17545,4359,5,4,2092],"class_list":["post-131069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-christopher-bell","tag-crime","tag-detective-hollowell","tag-false-pretense","tag-jackson-avenue","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Christopher-Bell.jpg?fit=1113%2C870&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131069","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=131069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}