It appears Joshua Bobo will not get out of jail any time soon. Rankin-Madison District Attorney Michael Guest is asking a court to revoke the probation Mr. Bobo received a year ago for an attempted grand larceny conviction in Rankin County. Mr. Bobo pleaded guilty to the charge. This conviction is merely one incident in a growing list of problems with the law for Mr. Bobo.
Ridgeland police arrested the 28-year old man after he stabbed a pharmacist with a syringe at Walmart, carjacked an older woman in the parking lot, ran back inside the store, swallowed H202, and then took some pills. Ridgeland police arrested him.
A Rankin County judge sentenced Mr. Bobo to five years supervised probation and ordered him subjected to drug testing after accepting his guilty plea of attempted grand larceny as part of a lesser included charge of burglary of a dwelling on July 8, 2013. Oddly enough, the suspect passed a drug test yesterday morning. Mr. Bobo was arrested after he worked for the city of Pearl checking meters. Apparently Mr. Bobo entered a residence and swiped some beer from the fridge. Charges were pressed against Mr. Bobo, hence the conviction.
The incident took place one day before he engaged police and family members in a standoff at the Palisades subdivision by the Reservoir. Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey stated in a press release last year:
Rankin County deputies responded to the area and were met by the suspect’s parents who stated that their son was threatening suicide with a rifle and had threatened them with the rifle. The parents fled the residence in fear for their safety. While on the scene near the residence deputies were threatened to be shot by the suspect if they approached the residence. Deputies on scene called for additional backup and secured the immediate area around the residence.Mr. Bobo served six months in the Rankin County jail for the threats against the police. District Attorney Michael Guest told this correspondent his office is moving to revoke his probation. Mr. Bobo faces up to ten years a prison and a fine of $10,000 or less if probation is revoked.
Here are his prior cases:
*Assault on a police officer. Threatened to shoot a deputy at the Palisades standoff a year ago. He served six months in the Rankin County jail from January to July. Standoff on January 5, 2013
* Assault Domestic Violence (Misdemeanor). Threatened to shoot family members in the Palisades standoff. The charge was remanded to the file. In other words, he was not prosecuted at the request of the family members.
*Attempted Grand larceny (Felony). January 4, 2013. Pleaded guilty. 5 years unsupervised probation. Served 48 hours in jail in September for failing to appear for a drug test.
*Driving with a suspended license/Failure to appear in court. July 1, 2010. Remanded to file.
*Assault Domestic Violence (Misdemeanor). February 2, 2008. Guilty. $469 fine and court costs.
*Domestic Violence/Simple Assault (Misdemeanor). June 22, 2008. Remanded to file.
*Seatbelt violation. May 24, 2008. Fine: $35.
7 comments:
But, But, But....I keep reading that his dad is such a swell guy.
Look; I have a son myself and love him with all my heart no matter what. But, if he reaches a point where he really needs to be incarcerated, I will have to adjust to that reality and help it get done for his own good.
This is the last straw for him. Rankin County kept making the deals and he is now at the will of Madison County. No more deals, no more excuses. This type of behavior (and prior behavior) has no place anywhere in Jackson. I hope Mr. Bobo enjoys his new home at MDOC, because he is going to be there for quite a few years. Luckily, nobody is dead due to his obvious insanity, selfishness, and lack of care for others.
Dad bailed him out and bailed him out until he could bail no more. There are people that do far less that receive much more. Not to inject a whole other issue into this, but take a look at the Scott sisters. Do you think they would have repeated the same transgressions had they been released after 6 months?
The Scott sisters were just greedy, not insane.
"This is the last straw for him. Rankin County kept making the deals and he is now at the will of Madison County. "
Uh, the Rankin Co. DA is the Madison Co. DA, isn't he? Does he pull a Jekyll and Hyde as he drives over the spillway at the Rez?
This guy sounds like he needs commitment to protect himself and the general public.
It depends on which court venue winds up handling the case.
2 judges in the district. I would think that the DA's recommendation is going to have little to with what he actually gets, unless he's asking for 10 to serve.
I was assaulted by this man 5 years ago. Cut up with knife, made nearly bald from ripping my hair out, my back bleeding from him tearing at my purse strap and clothing layers until they were all finally torn from my body, left in the street to walk home naked. His mother attempted to blackmail me, threatening I'd not make it to courtroom to prosecute her son if I followed through with signing charges against her son, bc her son would NOT be put in jail. He plead 5th. Judge said "it just didn't make sense he'd attack like that without some provocation, derived from some sort of conflict between the 2 of us who, she believed, there was no way weren't involved in a romantic relationship", when I tried explaining his behavior was just "bizarre"(every time I saw his face during the lengthy attack, he was smiling). Passed a drug test after this charade, including drinking hydrogen peroxide- sounds to me like pretty "bizarre" behavior, but maybe I don't understand what OTHERS would consider such.
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