{"id":149491,"date":"2025-05-27T09:49:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=149491"},"modified":"2025-05-27T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:50:01","slug":"abbeville-man-arrested-for-felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/abbeville-man-arrested-for-felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbeville Man Arrested for Felon in Possession of a Firearm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On May 23, 2025, Deputies with the <strong>Lafayette County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/strong> were conducting a Driver\u2019s License Safety Checkpoint in the area of <strong>County Road 303<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver of a vehicle came through the checkpoint and Deputies saw an illegal substance in plain view inside of the vehicle. A probable cause search was then conducted and Deputies located a handgun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of the investigation, <strong>Sidney Jackson<\/strong>, 60 years old of <strong>Abbeville, Mississippi<\/strong>, was arrested and charged for Felon in Possession of a Firearm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jackson appeared before a Justice Court Judge on Friday and was issued a $5,000.00 bond. Jackson bond was revoked due to being out on a previous felony bond.<\/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\/Sidney-Jackson-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><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\/05\/Sidney-Jackson-1024x768.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sidney-Jackson-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sidney-Jackson-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sidney-Jackson-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sidney-Jackson-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sidney-Jackson-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sidney-Jackson-scaled.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sidney-Jackson-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sidney Jackson, 60 years old of Abbeville, Mississippi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 23, 2025, Deputies with the Lafayette County Sheriff&#8217;s Office were conducting a Driver\u2019s License Safety Checkpoint<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":149494,"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":[1968,31927,4469,11024,5,4],"class_list":["post-149491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-abbeville","tag-county-road-303","tag-lafayette-county-sheriff","tag-lafayette-county-sheriffs-office","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sidney-Jackson-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149491","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=149491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149495,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149491\/revisions\/149495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}