{"id":148390,"date":"2025-04-09T18:32:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T23:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=148390"},"modified":"2025-04-09T18:32:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T23:32:52","slug":"oxford-man-arrested-for-embezzlement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-man-arrested-for-embezzlement-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Man Arrested for Embezzlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An investigator from the <strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> received a call on February 5, 2025, from a local business in the 1400 block of <strong>University Avenue<\/strong>, concerning an employee being caught stealing from the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The business owner had noticed items missing, and decided to investigate. While investigating, the owner discovered <strong>Kerry Pettis<\/strong>, 43, of <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong> had stolen items from the business totalling over $5,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pettis was arrested and charged on one count of Embezzlement. He was taken before a Municipal Court judge for his initial bond hearing.<\/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-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kerry-Pettis.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\/2025\/04\/Kerry-Pettis.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kerry Pettis, 43, of Oxford, Mississippi.\" class=\"wp-image-148391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kerry-Pettis.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kerry-Pettis.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kerry Pettis, 43, of Oxford, Mississippi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigator from the Oxford Police Department received a call on February 5, 2025, from a local business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":148391,"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":[31609,5,4,2092,4299],"class_list":["post-148390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-kerry-pettis","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-university-avenue"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kerry-Pettis.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148390","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=148390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148392,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148390\/revisions\/148392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}