{"id":148937,"date":"2025-05-01T15:54:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=148937"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:54:03","slug":"arrest-made-in-felony-shoplifting-case-in-oxford-on-november-5-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/arrest-made-in-felony-shoplifting-case-in-oxford-on-november-5-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest Made in Felony Shoplifting Case in Oxford on November 5, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An officer from the <strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> received a call on November 5, 2024 from a business on <strong>West Jackson Avenue<\/strong>, concerning a man suspected of shoplifting from the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The store manager had noticed items missing, and decided to investigate. While investigating, the manager discovered <strong>Sami Elias<\/strong>, 67, of <strong>Lexington, Kentucky<\/strong>, had stolen items from the business totaling over $1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elias fled the scene and was taken into custody by the <strong>Williamson County, Tennessee<\/strong> Sheriff&#8217;s Department and on April 20, 2025, was transported back to the <strong>Lafayette County Detention Center<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elias was arrested and charged with one count of Felony Shoplifting. He was taken before a Municipal Court Judge for his initial bond hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OPD would like to thank the Williamson County Sheriff&#8217;s Department for their assistance in this case.<\/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\/2025\/05\/Sami-Elias.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sami-Elias-1024x753.jpg?resize=640%2C471\" alt=\"Sami Elias, 67, of Lexington, Kentucky.\" class=\"wp-image-148935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sami-Elias.jpg?resize=1024%2C753&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sami-Elias.jpg?resize=300%2C221&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sami-Elias.jpg?resize=768%2C565&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sami-Elias.jpg?w=1170&amp;ssl=1 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sami Elias, 67, of Lexington, Kentucky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An officer from the Oxford Police Department received a call on November 5, 2024 from a business on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":148935,"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":[2476,19629,5,4,2092,31784,2676,20628,31785,31786],"class_list":["post-148937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-kentucky","tag-lexington","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-sami-elias","tag-tennessee","tag-west-jackson-avenue","tag-williamson-county","tag-williamson-county-tennessee-sheriffs-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sami-Elias.jpg?fit=1170%2C860&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148937","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=148937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148938,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148937\/revisions\/148938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}