Deputies approached the vehicle and spoke with the driver identified as Antonio Mendez<\/strong> and the passenger identified as Briane Kreston<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to the vehicle showing on License Plate Readers<\/strong> for Ms. Kreston having an active Circuit Court Warrant with Desoto County<\/strong>, Deputies advised Ms. Kreston to step out of the vehicle.\u00a0 Ms. Kreston stepped out and Mr. Mendez took off from the traffic stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Deputies pursued the vehicle down Hwy. 7 South.\u00a0 The Oxford Police Department<\/strong> was working a traffic accident that had happened and the pursuit went through the middle of the accident.\u00a0 The vehicle later stopped on the shoulder and Mr. Mendez fled on foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n With assistance from the Oxford Police Department Mr. Mendez was later apprehended and charged with Failure to Stop Motor Vehicle When Officer Signals (Felony Fleeing) [97-9-72(b)].\u00a0 This is still an ongoing investigation.\u00a0 A Justice Court Judge set Mr. Mendez bond at $40,000.00 and the Mississippi Department of Corrections<\/strong> placed on HOLD on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Friday, January 24, 2025 at approximately 6:45 pm, Deputies conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1010,"featured_media":146659,"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":[31133,25348,30142,12735,19578,31134,15233,2092,31132],"class_list":["post-146658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-antonio-mendez","tag-belk-boulevard","tag-briane-kreston","tag-desoto-county","tag-highway-7-south","tag-license-plate-readers","tag-mississippi-department-of-corrections","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-rascals-gas-station"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Antonio-Mendez-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146658","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=146658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146660,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146658\/revisions\/146660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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