34-year-old Jessinya Faye Ezell. (Credit: Gulfport Police Department)
GULFPORT, Miss. – A Mississippi woman is accused of robbing a Dollar General only to be caught when she returned to the scene of the crime to retrieve her cell phone.
The backstory:
The Gulfport Police Department said they arrested 34-year-old Jessinya Faye Ezell on May 12 and charged her with one count of armed robbery.
Police said the night before, officers responded to a Dollar General at 2600 Dedeaux Road in reference to an armed robbery.
Investigators said Ezell came into the store, showed a weapon and demanded money. She then got into a fight with an employee before leaving the store with an undisclosed amount of money.
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They said while investigators were on the scene, Ezell came back to ask about a cellphone she dropped during the robbery.
She was then identified as the suspect and taken into custody.
What’s next:
Ezell is being held at the Harrison County Adult Detention Center on a $100,000 bond.
The Source: The information in this story comes from a Facebook post by the Gulfport Police Department. This story was reported from Los Angeles.
