Madison-Rankin District Attorney Michael Guest issued the following statement.
Violent Habitual Offender Receives Life without the Possibility of Parole
Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney Michael Guest announced today Fabiyonne Kentell Peel was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole after a jury found him guilty of house burglary, auto theft and conspiracy to commit burglary. Peel is now in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Peel has past convictions and is a violent habitual offender.
On January 10, 2016, the Ridgeland Police Department responded to an apartment complex after one of the occupants saw three unknown men exiting the residence. It was discovered that a purse containing several hundred dollars in cash, an IPad, several bank cards and the keys to a Dodge Charger were also stolen. Once the men left the apartment they then stole the Dodge Charger from the parking lot of the apartment complex.
Ridgeland Police Department was able to determine that one of the stolen credit cards was used at a local store to purchase shoes and were able to retrieve video of the transaction. From the video, police were able to develop a suspect and a warrant was issued for his arrest. He was later arrested and admitted to using the cards but denied stealing any of the property. He advised law enforcement that Peel was one of the individuals who had taken the property and he was the ringleader and had organized the burglary of the apartment.
Investigators were able to get the address for Peel and another suspect involved in the burglary. Warrants were signed by the Judge and investigators went to a home in Jackson to arrest the suspects. Officers knocked on the door to no avail. Officers saw someone looking through the blinds but they refused to come to the door. Law enforcement then entered the home where they found Peel covered up with clothes and a blanket in an attempt to hide from the police. As officers searched the house they were able to find the stolen IPad that matched the serial number provided by the owner.
Peel and another individual were arrested and transported to the Madison County Detention Center. While in jail Peel made a recorded phone call where he told another individual that Stephanie Mejia was “snitching” and someone needed to take care of her. Mejia was shot and killed in Jackson later that same day.
Guest stated, “This case is an example of outstanding police work and cooperation of several different law enforcement agencies working together to bring Peel to justice. The Ridgeland Police Department, the Madison County Sheriff’s office, and the Jackson Police Department should be congratulated on a job well done.”
Guested continued, “This case is an important reminder of the need to keep habitual offenders behind bars. Peel is a very dangerous man, who was the mastermind of the robbery, and who when caught had no problem trying to cover his tracks and the tracks of his co-defendants by having Mejia killed. Because he is a violent habitual offender he will now spend the rest of his life behind bars as punishment for his crimes.”
Guest concluded, “I want to give a special thank you to Investigator Charlie Rubisoff and the Attorney General’s Office for their assistance in this case. The AG’s Office was able to download and analyze electronic information that was critical in us being able to present evidence to the jury showing how the defendants were working in concert together and also placing Peel in the area of the burglary.”
Peel has four prior felony convictions. He has been convicted of receiving stolen property and three counts of burglary of a dwelling in 2011. He was on probation for these convictions at the time of the new crime.
District Attorney Michael Guest was sworn into office in January 2008 and represents the Twentieth Judicial District, Madison and Rankin Counties. For more information regarding the District Attorney’s office, follow us on Facebook, download our app or please visit www.daguest.com.
Defendants:
Name: Fabiyonne Kentell Peel
Address: 110 Pine Knoll Drive, Ridgeland
Date of Birth: January 8, 1982
21 comments:
In before "Ridgeland is lost".
“This case is an example of outstanding police work and cooperation of several different law enforcement agencies working together to bring Peel to justice."
Lol I love when PD turns someone and then claims it was "great police work". Discredits everyone when you say "We were lucky the store's security system was intact.".
The Honorable Judge Green would have given him 15 years, 10 years suspended, 5 years time served.
Ridgeland was lost years ago. The snobs on the west side of the interstate just wear blinders, and refuse to see the ghetto that is all of east Ridgeland, which is the vast majority of the city. Just wait until east Ridgeland starts voting. I'd be shocked if there are any houses in Ridgeland that would sell for the purchase price.
Don't bring that shit to Madison & Rankin Counties, our DA doesn't play
Michael Guest doesn't play and one of a handful around that actually do their job. I wonder if they can figure out who was on the other end of that phone call though?
@ May 16, 2017 at 11:42 AM - HONORABLE judge green???!?!!?!?!?!
There is not one thing honorable about that woman. She is a disgrace to the bench, the robe she wears and the people she is sworn to protect.
Can't wait to watch east Ridgeland versus west Ridgeland unfold. When will talk of succession start? And all that heritage on the west side of the interstate. You know, all that proud heritage going back to 1986?
Ridgeland is a pissant of a town that has been able to ride on the coattails of Madison.
Guest exploits his position by making money off rich kids they pick up for small drug violations, while throwing the book at folks without money for the same offense. But rest assured that he will use the money wisely by hiring an overpaid consultant to draft these self-promoting press releases congratulating himself for doing his job.
Good riddance . Hopefully somebody kills him in prison so we are not stuck with the bill for long .
"Guested" hahahahaha
I love how the residents of Madison talk about how crappy Ridgeland has become. Then the residents of Brandon talk about Pearl. Then the Residents of Madison talk about the crappiness of both Brandon and Pearl. Then there’s this one lady that always mentions Grenada. All this talking while the city of Clinton is winning.
@11:40 it's called police work. It takes both the law enforcement officers and citizens to help solve crimes. Go see if you can do any better.
Ridgeland has always been crap. You couldn't get me to move to Clinton if the houses were free. Brandon is nice, pearl is getting better.
5:31 - I'm betting you'd fit right in with the Highway 80 motif in Pearl.
Yeah, white folks are running out of places to run to. Us black folks can live anywhere. We're like big black Cats (Being a virile BM I can call my bros what I want) who can live in the tropics, on the Riveria, in the delta, Richland, Byram, Ridgeland, Madison, Canton, Clinton but we don't like living in Pearl or Brandon. Who wants to drive by a confederate statue everyday?
Glad to see KF didn't forget the paid political advertisement for Guest.
What is your point 8:26?
9:23 just raised the property values in Pearl and Brandon.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you live anywhere in Mississippi, you are living in the most backward and most rejected area of the country. You are at the top of every bad list and at the bottom of every good list. None of these cities (Jackson, Madison, Pearl, Brandon, Clinton, Byram) are any better than the other. My child graduated from JPS, and will still be attending Ole Miss with all the other children of this state just to get a job paying $35,000 to $55,000. We are all in the same situation, the laughing stock of the country. Look around you; there is nothing here. There's no Fortune 500 companies, no high tech companies, no nothing. We are just a bunch of hillbillies and rednecks who are living in this wasteland that is called Mississippi. So stop pretending that you are better than everyone else because nobody believes that but you.
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