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Brittany Jones | Photo courtesy of the family

Funeral set for Saturday for Brittany Jones
By BRENT MAZE
Thu,06/16/22-11:36AM, 823 Reads 24,201 Statewide
Funeral arrangements have been made for Brittany Jones, one of the two victims in last week’s double homicide in Meridian.

A visitation will be held Friday, June 17, from noon to 6 p.m. at Mapp Funeral Home in Forest, according to funeral home officials.
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D'Ante Marquez Bender was arrested in Ackerman by the U.S. Marshal's Service, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, the Choctaw County Sheriff's Department and the Ackerman Police Department. Left, Bender is taken into custody at the former Cagle's Corner at the intersection of Hwy. 12 and 15. Middle, Bender awaits extradition to Lauderdale County. Right, Bender is placed in handcuffs belonging to the late Meridian Police Officer Kennis Croom. | Photos courtesy of the Choctaw County Sheriff's Department and the Ackerman Police Department

Bender charged with capital murder
By BRENT MAZE
Mon,06/13/22-4:28PM, 1,413 Reads 59,892 Statewide
A former Newton Police Officer will be facing multiple counts of murder after he allegedly opened fire at a Meridian residence, killing his fiancée and Meridian Police Officer Kennis Croom on Thursday night.

According to the U.S. Marshal’s Service press release, D’Ante Marquez Bender, 31, was arrested at 10:15 a.m. Friday in Ackerman.
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Dante Marquez Bender

Sheriff: Suspect caught by U.S. Marshals
By BRENT MAZE
Fri,06/10/22-11:00AM, 1,110 Reads 30,462 Statewide
Dante Marquez Bender, 31, a man wanted for the murders of Meridian Police Officer Kennis Croom and another woman, has been taken into custody by the U.S. Marshal's Service, according to Newton County Sheriff Pennington and Newton Police Chief Randy Patrick.
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Dr. Arnold Smith, below, became wildly fixated on Lee Abraham, above -- an obsession that prosecutors claimed led to an unsuccessful assassination attempt on the Greenwood attorney in 2012. Smith has not had to face a criminal trial because of his mental illness and settled in 2019 a lawsuit filed by Abraham.

Trial might never happen for alleged murder-for-hire plot
By TIM KALICH - Greenwood Commonwealth
Sun,05/01/22-1:38PM, 3,250 Reads 127,528 Statewide
It had the makings of the trial of the century.
Dr. Arnold Smith, an eccentric but accomplished oncologist with a maniacal obsession about Lee Abraham, had been charged with hiring a felon to try to assassinate the Greenwood attorney, but the felon was gunned down instead.
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