{"id":149498,"date":"2025-05-27T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=149498"},"modified":"2025-05-27T10:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:13:26","slug":"oxford-mississippi-man-arrested-for-arson-on-eastover-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-mississippi-man-arrested-for-arson-on-eastover-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford, Mississippi Man Arrested for Arson on Eastover Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On May 15, 2025, the <strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> responded to <strong>Eastover Drive<\/strong> to take a report of a male attempting to light multiple vehicles on fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was determined that two vehicles had been covered in lighter fluid, while only one vehicle had burn damage. <strong>Martel McEwen<\/strong>, 34, of <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>, was detained and taken into custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McEwen was charged with 3rd and 4th degree Arson. McEwen 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\/05\/Martel-McEwen.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Martel-McEwen.jpg?resize=640%2C470\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Martel-McEwen.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Martel-McEwen.jpg?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Martel McEwen, 34, of Oxford, Mississippi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 15, 2025, the Oxford Police Department responded to Eastover Drive to take a report of a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":149499,"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":[31930,31931,5,4,2092],"class_list":["post-149498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-eastover-drive","tag-martel-mcewen","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Martel-McEwen.jpg?fit=640%2C470&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149498","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=149498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149500,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149498\/revisions\/149500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}