{"id":154084,"date":"2025-12-09T09:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=154084"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:07:02","slug":"oxford-man-arrested-for-child-pornography-enticement-and-grooming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-man-arrested-for-child-pornography-enticement-and-grooming\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Man Arrested for Child Pornography, Enticement, and Grooming\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On November 19 , 2025, the <strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> received a tip about a possible child enticement case. Investigators immediately began an investigation into the case and conducted follow-up interviews with multiple parties involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result of the investigation led to an arrest warrant being issued on November 20, 2025, for <strong>Paul Petach<\/strong>, 57, of <strong>Oxford, Mississippi <\/strong>on charges of Child Porn, two counts of Enticement of a Child to Meet for Sexual Purposes, and Grooming of a Child.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Petach was located and arrested. A search warrant was issued for Petach\u2019s home where electronics and storage devices were seized. This is still an ongoing investigation and more charges could be filed a later date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any information about this case, please call us at 662-232-2400 and ask to speak to an investigator about the case. Investigators and the <strong>Attorney General<\/strong>\u2019s office are currently analyzing all digital evidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Oxford Police Department would like to thank the <strong>Lafayette County Sheriff\u2019s Department<\/strong> 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\/12\/Paul-Petach.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Paul-Petach-1024x689.jpg?resize=640%2C431&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Paul-Petach.jpg?resize=1024%2C689&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Paul-Petach.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Paul-Petach.jpg?resize=768%2C517&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Paul-Petach.jpg?w=1170&amp;ssl=1 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Paul Petach, 57, of Oxford, Mississippi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 19 , 2025, the Oxford Police Department received a tip about a possible child enticement case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":154085,"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":[6888,8747,15693,5,2092,33313],"class_list":["post-154084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-attorney-general","tag-crime","tag-lafayette-county-sheriffs-department-2","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-paul-petach"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Paul-Petach.jpg?fit=1170%2C787&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154084","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=154084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154086,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154084\/revisions\/154086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}