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South Mississippi's most-wanted criminal suspects

The basics: Glenn A. Hodges, 45, auto theft.

The details: Hodges is accused in the July 2, 2010, theft of a vehicle.
Call 762-2211 or Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787=5898 with tips.
The basics: Glenn A. Hodges, 45, auto theft. The details: Hodges is accused in the July 2, 2010, theft of a vehicle. Call 762-2211 or Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787=5898 with tips.

Below is a detailed list of South Mississippi's most-wanted criminal suspects, including their names, ages, charges and other details about their alleged crimes. Law enforcement agencies are asking for tips to find them. Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers offers rewards for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the cases.

Biloxi

The basics: Amanda Nycole Dillon, 23, two counts armed robbery.

The details: Dillon is accused along with Jimmie Tezile Evans, 21, of robbing at gunpoint two people in the 260 block of Stennis Drive on Sept. 10. The armed robbery was reported at 9:27 a.m. Evans has already been arrested, and Justice Court Judge Bruce Strong signed warrants to arrest Dillon. Strong has set her bond at a total of $100,000 on the charges she is facing.

The basics: Taylor Lynn Brooks, 24, credit card fraud.

The details: Brooks is accused of using a credit card stolen from a purse in Gulfport to charge more than $100 in items at a store in the 2600 block U.S. 90 in Biloxi. Justice Court Judge Albert Fountain signed a warrant for her arrest and has already set her bond at $20,000.

Call 392-0641 or 436-6112 or Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787-5898 with information.

D'Iberville

The basics: Lesia Ann Huxley, 50, embezzlement under contract.

The details: Huxley is accused of embezzling more than $30,000 that was supposed to be used to buy equipment for a business in January 2014

The basics: Ronald Douglas Howard, 50, embezzlement under contract.

The details: Howard is accused of embezzling more than $30,000 that was supposed to be used to buy equipment for a business in January 2014

The basics: Lonora Hoda, 58, embezzlement.

The details: Hoda is accused in August 2012 of embezzling more than $7,000 from her former employer.

Call 396-4252 or Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787-5898 with tips.

Gautier

The basics: Samuel Ashley Martin, 40, grand larceny.

The details: Martin is accused in the Sept. 29 theft of a utility trailer valued at $1,500.

Call 497-2486 or Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787-5898 with tips.

Gulfport

The basics: Cedric Laron Gay, 30, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute marijuana.

The details: Gay is accused of have a felony amount of cocaine and marijuana for sale on Sept. 24, 2014.

The basics: Kelly Hoseep Arriola-Ruiz, 31, aggravated domestic violence

The details: Arriola-Ruiz is accused of punching and strangling a woman on July 27, 2014.

Call 868-5959 or Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787-5898 with tips.

Hancock County

The basics: Albert Joseph Laneaux II, 27, molestation, enticement of a child for lustful purposes.

The details: Laneaux is accused of molesting two minors, ages 15 and 10, and also luring a child for his lustful purpose. The alleged crimes occurred February and November. Authorities believe Laneaux is in South Mississippi, possibly in Wiggins, where he has relatives.

Call 466-6900 or Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787-5898 with tips, or text CSTIP plus to your message to 274637 or log in to mscoastcrimestoppers.com.

Harrison County narcotics

The basics: Donald James Benge, 63. three counts sale of a controlled substance.

The details: Benge is accused of selling the prescription painkiller, hydrocodone, on May 1, 2012, June 5, 2012, and June 18, 2012

The basics: Jessica R. Goldsmith, 36, possession of meth precursor chemicals, generation of hazardous waste related to meth manufacturing.

The details: Goldsmith is accused of possessing chemicals used to manufacture meth and generating hazardous waste on June 17, 2011

The details: Foster of accused of selling meth on Sept. 25, 2014, Sept. 26, 2014, and Sept. 30, 2014

The basics: Kathleen G. Kendrick, 51, three counts sale of the prescription painkiller, hydrocodone.

The details: Kendrick is accused of selling hydrocodone on May 9, 2014, July 8, 2014, and June 9, 2014.

The basics: Carla Eugenia Durr, 43, two counts sale of the painkiller, morphine.

The details: Durr is accused of selling morphine on March 18, 2014, April 3, 2014, and May 7, 2014.

Call 897-1364 or Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787-5898, text CSTIP plus your message to 274637 or log in to mscoastcrimestoppers.com to leave tips.

Harrison County

The basics: Craig Juneau, 37, felony false pretense.

The details: Juneau is accused of advertising a trailer for sale on Craigslist and accepting payment for the purchase though someone else owned the trailer.

The basics: Michael Harris, 29, motor vehicle theft.

The details: Harris is accused of stealing a vehicle from the home of a individual he had stayed with. The vehicle was later found in Louisiana.

The basics: Franklin Lynn Squires, 50, failure to register as a sex offender.

The details: Squares failed to comply with state law and register his home address. Squires was convicted of second-offense criminal sexual conduct in July 1989 in Horry County, S.C.

The basics: Donnie McClemore, 61, failure to register as sex offender.

The details: McClemore failed to register a new address with authorities. McClemore was convicted on Feb. 3, 1993, of touching a mentally defective, incapacitated or physically helpless person for lustful purposes. He has lived in Gulfport in the past.

Call 897-1364 or Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787-5898, text CSTIP plus your message to 274637 or log in to mscoastcrimestoppers.com to leave tips.

Jackson County

The basics: Adam M. Kisner, 44, failure to register as a sex offender.

The details: Kisner is wanted for failure to register as sex offender and for violating the conditions of his parole on two counts of sexual battery and one count of touching of a mentally defective, incapacitated or physically helpless person for lustful purposes. Kisner was convicted in 2010 in George County.

The basics: Jonica Ward Thompson, age not given, residential burglary.

The details: Thompson is accused of breaking in to a home in the Escatawpa community.

The basics: Carlton Lee Miles, 47, three counts failure to register as a sex offender.

The details: Miles is a non-compliant sex offender who failed to register his address in Louisiana and Mississippi. He is known to hang around a home on Scott Street in the Latimer community and also frequents campgrounds. He has a tattoo of a skull wearing a cowboy hat on his right shoulder.

Call 769-3063 or Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787-5898 with tips.

Moss Point

The basics: Khalil Bryant, 18, armed robbery.

The details: Bryant is accused in the June 13 armed robbery of Pizza Hug on Mississippi 67.

The basics: Dijon "Black" Joshuary Johnson, 24, aggravated assault.

The details: Johnson is a suspect in Sept. 9 shooting at Fusion H20 car wash that left two injured and one man dead.

Call 475-1711 or Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787-5898 with tips.

Pascagoula

The basics: Astred Alexander, 25, auto theft.

The details: Alexander is accused in the Nov. 6, 2012 theft of a vehicle.

The basics: James D. Thomas, 46, auto theft.

The details: Thomas is accused in the July 6 theft of a vehicle.

The basics: Stacy Ann Ezell-Parker, 40

The details: Ezell-Parker is accused in the Aug. 14, 2014, theft of a vehicle.

The basics: Richard E. Melcher, 42, auto theft.

The details: Melcher is accused in the Feb. 25, 2011, theft of a vehicle.

The basics: Glenn A. Hodges, 45, auto theft.

The details: Hodges is accused in the July 2, 2010, theft of a vehicle.

Call 762-2211 or Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787=5898 with tips.

Pass Christian

The basics: Michael Robert Burns, 46, burglary.

The details: Burns is accused of stealing items from a construction site. A felon with previous convictions for violent crimes, including two aggravated assaults, is also wanted on additional charges in Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Call Sgt. Mike Burkett at 452-3301 or Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787-5898 with tips.

This story was originally published November 14, 2015 at 3:03 PM with the headline "South Mississippi's most-wanted criminal suspects ."

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