{"id":48067,"date":"2018-08-20T17:38:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T23:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=48067"},"modified":"2018-08-20T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T23:39:09","slug":"two-arrested-for-first-degree-arson-at-the-links-apartment-in-oxford-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/two-arrested-for-first-degree-arson-at-the-links-apartment-in-oxford-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Arrested For First Degree Arson at The Links Apartment in Oxford, Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Tyson-Derrell.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-48069\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Tyson-Derrell.jpg?resize=300%2C336\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a>On August 14, 2018, at approximately 10:53 PM, the Oxford Police Department and Oxford Fire Department responded to a possible structure fire at building 26 of The Links Apartments. The Oxford Fire Department worked quickly to extinguish the fire inside apartment #2. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There was one reported minor injury from smoke inhalation but the victim was not transported to the hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Due to the nature of the fire an investigator with Lafayette County Fire Department, an investigator with OPD, and a State Fire Marshal responded to investigate the fire. The renter of the apartment, <strong>Derrell Tyson<\/strong> (32 of<strong> Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>), made inconsistent accounts about what happened which lead to him being a suspect. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ward-Raynaldo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-48070\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ward-Raynaldo.jpg?resize=300%2C373\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a>During the interview of Tyson he eventually admitted that he planned the fire because of financial issues. This interview lead to <strong>Raynaldo Ward<\/strong> (26 of <strong>Coldwater<\/strong>, Mississippi) being identified as the perpetrator that started the fire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Tyson was arrested on August 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0for 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0degree arson where he was transported to the Lafayette County Detention Center. Ward was arrested by the Tunica County Sheriff\u2019s Department on August 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0for 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0degree arson. He was transported back to the Lafayette County Detention Center the next day. Tyson and Ward were both given a bond of $100,000 by a Justice Court Judge.\u00a0<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\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 14, 2018, at approximately 10:53 PM, the Oxford Police Department and Oxford Fire Department responded to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":48068,"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":[6134,13089,4728,10914,5,4,10442,2092,13090,13088,13087,13091],"class_list":["post-48067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-coldwater","tag-derrell-tyson","tag-lafayette-county-detention-center","tag-lafayette-county-fire-department","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-fire-department","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-raynaldo-ward","tag-state-fire-marshal","tag-the-links-apartments","tag-tunica-county-sheriff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-20-ArsonAtTheLinks.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48067","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}