Gulfport murder suspect, four others arrested in multiple burglaries

Gulfport murder suspect Gary Perkins, armed robbery suspect Jaquan Moffett, and three other men have been arrested following investigation of eight auto burglaries.

Jaquan Terrell Moffett had a previous arrest from a holdup in Gulfport.

The others, also arrested Tuesday, are 18-year-olds Durente Yarbor, Phineas Williams and Albert Morgan III.

All five are Gulfport residents, the sheriff said.

They each face eight counts of auto burglary for charges filed in Harrison County, Long Beach and Pass Christian.

Perkins, 20, was free on a $1 million bond pending a grand jury review of a murder charge. He is accused in the fatal shooting of Chavis Allen in June on Dogwood Court in Gulfport’s Turn Key neighborhood. Allen was shot in his front yard.

Perkins’ bond on the murder charge has been revoked.

Moffett, 18, had been arrested on a simple robbery charge in Gulfport on March 12. He and another person unknown to police took a man’s wallet on East Samuel Street in the Orange Grove area, Gulfport Police Sgt. Joshua Bromen said.

The jail docket lists the charge as armed robbery and says Moffett’s bond on that charge has been revoked.

Perkins and Moffett are held at the Harrison County jail with no bond.

Yarbor, Morgan and Williams were each held on bonds of $80,000 each.

The men were arrested Tuesday while Harrison County deputies were investigating a burglary on Menge Avenue in Pass Christian, Sheriff Troy Peterson said in a news release.

While investigating the complaint, deputies learned another burglary had just been reported in the area. And investigators learned area police were investigating burglaries that may have been related.

Long Beach police were on the lookout for a vehicle after a man reported he saw a group of men burglarizing a neighbor’s vehicle, Assistant Police Chief Alan Bond said.

Police stopped a vehicle matching that description on Klondyke Road and at first arrested each of the them on a misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana.

Police found a firearm reported stolen in a burglary in Harrison County.

This story was originally published April 26, 2017 at 11:27 AM with the headline "Gulfport murder suspect, four others arrested in multiple burglaries."