{"id":154342,"date":"2025-12-22T15:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=154342"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:38:25","slug":"oxford-man-arrested-for-grooming-after-juvenile-threatens-self-harm-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-man-arrested-for-grooming-after-juvenile-threatens-self-harm-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Man Arrested for Grooming after Juvenile Threatens Self-Harm on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On November 25, 2025, Deputies with the <strong>Lafayette County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/strong> received a report of a welfare concern regarding a juvenile that made threats of self-harm on social media. Deputies made contact with the juvenile, who also made a sexual misconduct allegation that occurred in <strong>Lafayette County<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators were notified of allegation. After an investigation was conducted, <strong>Dennis Wayne Mitchell<\/strong> (67 years old) of <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong> was arrested and charged with Grooming [97-5-32] on December 18, 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitchell appeared before a Justice Court Judge on Friday, December 19, 2025 and was issued a $75,000.00 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\/12\/Dennis-Wayne-Mitchell.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dennis-Wayne-Mitchell.jpg?resize=640%2C435\" alt=\"Dennis Wayne Mitchell (67 years old) of Oxford, Mississippi.\" class=\"wp-image-154343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dennis-Wayne-Mitchell.jpg?resize=1024%2C696&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dennis-Wayne-Mitchell.jpg?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dennis-Wayne-Mitchell.jpg?resize=768%2C522&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dennis-Wayne-Mitchell.jpg?resize=1536%2C1044&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dennis-Wayne-Mitchell.jpg?resize=2048%2C1392&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dennis-Wayne-Mitchell.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dennis-Wayne-Mitchell.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dennis Wayne Mitchell (67 years old) of Oxford, Mississippi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 25, 2025, Deputies with the Lafayette County Sheriff\u2019s Office received a report of a welfare concern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1010,"featured_media":154343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10397],"tags":[8747,33379,256,4469,11024,5,4],"class_list":["post-154342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-crime","tag-dennis-wayne-mitchell","tag-lafayette-county","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\/12\/Dennis-Wayne-Mitchell.jpg?fit=2314%2C1573&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154342","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=154342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154344,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154342\/revisions\/154344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}