{"id":145473,"date":"2024-12-05T11:02:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T17:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=145473"},"modified":"2024-12-05T11:02:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T17:02:16","slug":"oxford-police-department-makes-arrest-in-aggravated-stalking-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-police-department-makes-arrest-in-aggravated-stalking-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Police Department Makes Arrest in Aggravated Stalking Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> has arrested <strong>Ben Mikell<\/strong>, 39, of <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>, in connection with an ongoing stalking investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 3, 2024, officers were contacted by a victim who reported a concerning incident involving suspicious activity near her vehicle in a parking area located in the 1000 block of <strong>Belk Boulevard<\/strong>. Following the report, detectives conducted an investigation and reviewed surveillance footage from the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the evidence gathered, a warrant was issued for Mikell&#8217;s arrest on a charge of Aggravated Stalking. Patrol officers located and took Mr. Mikell into custody the following day without incident. He was transported to the <strong>Lafayette County Detention Center<\/strong>, where he is awaiting an initial appearance.<\/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\/2024\/12\/Ben-Mikell.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ben-Mikell-1024x567.jpg?resize=640%2C354&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-145474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ben-Mikell.jpg?resize=1024%2C567&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ben-Mikell.jpg?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ben-Mikell.jpg?resize=768%2C425&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ben-Mikell.jpg?w=1284&amp;ssl=1 1284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ben Mikell, 39, of Oxford, Mississippi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford Police Department has arrested Ben Mikell, 39, of Oxford, Mississippi, in connection with an ongoing stalking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":145474,"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":[25348,30837,5,4,2092,30838],"class_list":["post-145473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-belk-boulevard","tag-ben-mikell","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-stalking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ben-Mikell.jpg?fit=1284%2C711&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145473","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=145473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145477,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145473\/revisions\/145477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}