{"id":49680,"date":"2018-11-05T10:48:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=49680"},"modified":"2018-11-12T10:55:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T16:55:46","slug":"oxford-mississippi-police-dispatch-bomb-unit-after-possible-pipe-bombs-discovered-during-domestic-disturbance-on-south-lamar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-mississippi-police-dispatch-bomb-unit-after-possible-pipe-bombs-discovered-during-domestic-disturbance-on-south-lamar\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford, Mississippi Police Dispatch Bomb Unit After Possible Pipe Bombs Discovered During Domestic Disturbance on South Lamar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On Sunday, November 4, 2018, at approximately 3:28 PM, <strong>Oxford, Mississippi Police<\/strong> officers\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">responded to a residence on South Lamar for a domestic disturbance.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Once officers responded, they found that the victim wielded a weapon in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">defense to stop the assault.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/KristopherGriste.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49893 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/KristopherGriste.jpg?resize=640%2C424\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">During the course of the investigation,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">officers were given consent to search the residence where they\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">discovered modified weapons and two possible pipe bombs. The house\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">was evacuated and the <strong>Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Explosives, Federal Bureau of Investigations<\/strong>, and the <strong>Tupelo Police\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Bomb Unit<\/strong> were all called and reported to the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Once a search warrant was obtained the Tupelo Bomb Unit entered\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">the residence and secured the devices. Officers along with federal agents\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">conducted a more detailed search of the property where multiple\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">weapons, ammunition, narcotics and paraphernalia were discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The suspect, <strong>Kristopher Austin Griste<\/strong>, 22 years old of Oxford, Mississippi has\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">been charged with Domestic Violence &#8211; Simple Assault. Other weapons\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">charges are pending and no bond has been set at this time. This case is active\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">and ongoing.\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<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Update:<\/strong>\u00a0Griste was given a $2,292.00 bond this afternoon for the charges of Domestic Violence \u2013 Simple Assault and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Any charges related to firearms or explosives will be handled by the ATF. Any inquiries related to those charges should be forwarded to the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms office.\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 Sunday, November 4, 2018, at approximately 3:28 PM, Oxford, Mississippi Police officers\u00a0responded to a residence on South<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":20761,"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":[13457,13460,13459,13508,5,7133,4,8053,2092,13462,4742,13458,13461],"class_list":["post-49680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-bureau-of-alcohol","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigations","tag-firearms-and-explosives","tag-kristopher-austin-griste","tag-mississippi","tag-opd","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-pipe-bombs","tag-south-lamar","tag-tobacco","tag-tupelo-police-bomb-unit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-16-OxfordPolice.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49680","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=49680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}