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June 25, 2025
District Attorney Daniella Shorter-Levy announced the conviction of Sedrick Catchings for the crime of Possession of Marijuana. Catchings was sentenced by Judge Tomika H. Irving to serve five (5) years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections with five (5) years suspended, and upon his release one (1) year of supervised probation. Also, he was ordered to pay court costs of $454.50 and a $150.00 investigative fee to the District Attorney’s Office.
Should this case have gone to trial, the prosecution would have shown that on December 28, 2022, a search warrant was conducted in Hazlehurst by the Copiah County Sheriff’s Department, and during that search, Catchings was found in possession of 433 grams of marijuana. During this search, Catchings was arrested and charged with Possession of Marijuana. Based on the above-mentioned facts, Catchings pleaded guilty to the aforementioned crime.
