Sheriff reports on several incidents

The Marshall County Sheriff's Department made numerous arrests over the July 4 weekend in four separate incidents, according to Kenny Dickerson.

The first arrests were made after a call to Lake Center Store regarding a disturbance where four people were taken into custody on drug and firearm related charges, he said.

A shooting incident in the St. Paul Road area Monday, July 7, sent a juvenile to LeBonheur Hospital in Memphis and one person was arrested and charged.

Officers made an arrest on Randolph Street July 7, and two juveniles are suspects in a school bus fire at H.W. Byers School that destroyed three school buses, according to Dickerson.

Lake Center arrests

Four people were charged following a call to the Lake Center Store area at 8 p.m. July 4 regarding calls from numerous individuals reporting loitering in the parking lot.

Dickerson said investigators surveilled the area and set up an operation and checkpoints in the parking lot area where several subjects were arrested.

The arrests at Lake Center included the following subjects:

• Trentavus Marquez McNeil, 34, of the 70 block of Jeffries Road, was arrested and charged with weapon in possession by a felon. Bond was set at $5,000 and he was released.

• Keldrick Wiseman, 37, of the 1000 block of Wilkins Chapel Road, was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana in a motor vehicle. Wiseman bond was $5,000.

• Javontae Marese Taylor, 33, of the 70 block of Jeffries Road, was arrested and charged with sale/possession/use of a controlled substance. Taylor was released on $5,000 bond.

• Deuntae Pegues, 26, of the 200 block of West Street, Holly Springs, was arrested and charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance enhanced by a firearm. He was released on $5,000 bond.

• a DUI arrest was made.

• one subject was picked up on an outstanding misdemeanor arrest warrant from the Holly Springs Police Department.

Shooting of juvenile

A juvenile was shot in the buttock in the area of St. Paul Road and Beachtree Road, and transported to LeBonheur Hospital July 7 the sheriff said.

Jarvis Wolfe, 58, of the 1400 block of St. Paul Road, was arrested and taken into custody and charged with aggravated assault with a firearm upon a juvenile, Dickerson said.

School bus arson

Two 10-year-old males are subjects identified in connection with the burning of three school buses on the H.W. Byers school campus July 5, Dickerson said.

A passerby reported seeing a huge amount of smoke coming from the H.W. Byers campus on Highway 72. At first it was thought the fire was coming from the school building, but law enforcement responding to the scene saw three buses parked in parallel fashion in the parking lot on Henderson Road which runs on the east side of the school.

Surveillance cameras outside the school indicated at the time two young males were walking in the area, the sheriff said. The children were identified with the help of a nearby resident.

Dickerson said their parents were notified and the juveniles were released into the custody of their parents while awaiting youth court action.

Holly Springs fire chief Rodney Crane with the Holly Springs Fire Department investigated the fire. Dickerson said it is believed that fireworks were set off in one of the school buses igniting the fire.

Arrest of individual on Randolph Street

Dickerson said an investigator with his department noticed a red car driving suspiciously on Randolph Street Monday night July 7.

The officer stopped the vehicle and arrested Deuntae Pegues, with a d.o.b. Of 1999, of the 200 block of West Street, and charged the subject with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute enhanced by a felon in possession of a firearm.

Pegues was released on $1,500 bond July 7, the sheriff said.