Vicksburg Police make two felony arrests; report burglaries and shots-fired incidents

Vicksburg Police made two felony arrests recently in unrelated cases.

Officers arrested Mac McKinley Cox, 24, of Vicksburg, on Tuesday, April 14, on charges of domestic violence, discharging a firearm in the city limits and curfew violation.

On Wednesday, police arrested Rory Warnock, 56, of Vicksburg, on one count of uttering a forgery from an incident that occurred in March 2019.

Cox and Warnock appeared in the Vicksburg Municipal Court Wednesday before Judge Penny Lawson. Lawson set Cox’s bond at $2,500, and Warnock received a $5,000 bond. Warnock was bound over to the Warren County grand jury.

In reported incidents for Monday, April 13:

Officers responded to two business burglaries:

• At 7:34 a.m. officers responded to the Purks YMCA, 267 YMCA Place, due to a burglary of some storage units. Two generators, 300 feet of copper wire and a number of power tools were stolen.
• At 9:14am officers responded to Tri-State Tire, 2209 Washington St., where the complainant stated that over the weekend, two U-Haul trailers were taken.

Officers responded to a residential burglary on Bellevue Street at 11:00 a.m. Monday. The victim reported someone had broken into his outside shed and took a Weed Eater and a gas-powered pole saw.

At 12:14 p.m. Monday, George Carr Motors, 2950 South Frontage Road, reported an attempted auto theft. The complainant reported someone had attempted to steal a white 1980 Chevrolet Corvette.

Vicksburg Police officer responded to four calls of shots fired on Monday:

• At 10:26 a.m., officers responded to the 1200 block of Mulvihill Street. They found no evidence of shots fired in the area.
• At 6:57 p.m., officers were dispatched to the area of First East and Adams Street. They noted no suspicious activity and found no evidence of shots being fired.
• At 8:16 p.m., officers responded to Patton Street, where witnesses identified a suspect vehicle and the officers recovered three spent shell casings from the street.
• At 8:22 p.m., officers responded to the 900 block of Meadow Street. An officer found a red Nissan Altima with several bullet holes in the passenger side of the vehicle and 15 shell casings on the ground near the vehicle.

If you have information on any of these incidents, please call the Vicksburg Police Department at 601-636-2511.