{"id":131715,"date":"2023-08-25T10:02:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=131715"},"modified":"2023-08-25T10:02:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:02:39","slug":"abbeville-mississippi-man-arrested-for-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/abbeville-mississippi-man-arrested-for-sexual-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbeville, Mississippi Man Arrested for Sexual Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On August 20, 2023, Investigators with the <strong>Lafayette County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/strong> received a report from the <strong>Baptist Memorial Hospital<\/strong> regarding victim reporting a sexual assault. Investigators responded to the hospital and began an investigation regarding the assault. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After concluding the investigation, <strong>Derondrick Cortez Smith<\/strong>, 41 years old, of <strong>Abbeville, Mississippi<\/strong>, was arrested and charged with Sexual Battery. Due to the nature of the crime and privacy of the victim, no further information will be released on the matter at this time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith appeared before a Justice Court Judge on Thursday, August 24, 2023, and issued a $20,000.00 bond. Smith is currently being held at the Lafayette County Detention Center.<\/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\/08\/Derondrick-Smith.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Derondrick-Smith.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Derondrick-Smith.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Derondrick-Smith.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Derondrick-Smith.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Derondrick-Smith.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Derondrick-Smith.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Derondrick-Smith.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Derondrick-Smith.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Derondrick Cortez Smith, 41 years old, of Abbeville, Mississippi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 20, 2023, Investigators with the Lafayette County Sheriff\u2019s Office received a report from the Baptist Memorial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1010,"featured_media":131716,"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":[1968,8650,8747,26441,256,4469,12484,11024,5,4,11099,12128],"class_list":["post-131715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-abbeville","tag-baptist-memorial-hospital","tag-crime","tag-derondrick-cortez-smith","tag-lafayette-county","tag-lafayette-county-sheriff","tag-lafayette-county-sheriffs-department","tag-lafayette-county-sheriffs-office","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-sexual-assault","tag-sexual-battery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Derondrick-Smith.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131715","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\/1010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}