{"id":152401,"date":"2025-10-06T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=152401"},"modified":"2025-10-06T16:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:45:23","slug":"oxford-mississippi-woman-arrested-after-attacking-police-officer-on-heritage-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-mississippi-woman-arrested-after-attacking-police-officer-on-heritage-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford, Mississippi Woman Arrested After Attacking Police Officer on Heritage Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday, October 4, 2025, around 12:30 pm,<strong> Oxford Police<\/strong> officers were conducting an investigation into a report of a stolen tablet from a local hotel room in the 100 block of <strong>Heritage Drive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the on-scene inquiry, an officer attempted to speak with an individual, later identified as <strong>April Slate<\/strong> (24 of <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>), who was connected to the theft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slate attempted to leave and then struck an officer multiple times. After a brief struggle, officers detained the suspect. EMS responded and evaluated those involved. The officer received facial injuries and was treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slate is charged with simple assault on a law enforcement officer and petit larceny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was transported to the <strong>Lafayette County Detention Center<\/strong>, where she is awaiting a bond hearing by the <strong>Municipal Court Judge<\/strong>.<\/p>\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\/10\/April-Slate.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/April-Slate.png?resize=640%2C429\" alt=\"April Slate (24 of Oxford, Mississippi).\" class=\"wp-image-152402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/April-Slate.png?resize=1024%2C687&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/April-Slate.png?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/April-Slate.png?resize=768%2C515&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/April-Slate.png?resize=1536%2C1030&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/April-Slate.png?resize=2048%2C1374&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/April-Slate.png?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/April-Slate.png?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">April Slate (24 of Oxford, Mississippi).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, October 4, 2025, around 12:30 pm, Oxford Police officers were conducting an investigation into a report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1010,"featured_media":152402,"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":[32738,21501,5,4,8053,2092],"class_list":["post-152401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-april-slate","tag-heritage-drive","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police","tag-oxford-police-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/April-Slate.png?fit=2412%2C1618&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152401","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=152401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152403,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152401\/revisions\/152403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}