Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey issued the following statement.
On Friday, February 27, 2026, investigators with the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department received information from Central Mississippi Crimestoppers regarding a Registered Sex Offender who had Absconded and was now living at an unknown residence within Rankin County.
After further investigation, investigators were able to confirm that Phillip Marvin Winter was residing at an address in the Plantation Shore subdivision on Hwy 49 south of Florence.
Phillip Winter was originally ordered to register as a Sex Offender after pleading guilty to Statutory Rape in 2008. Winter has also been convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender in 2021.
After his arrest, Winter was transported to the Rankin County Adult Detention Center and is being held on a $5,000 bond until his initial appearance before Rankin County Court Judge David Morrow Jr.
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Pervert. Looks like he had a starring role in "Deliverance".
135 lbs??
I have mixed emotions. If he was 18 and doing the deed with his complicit 17 year old girlfriend, then no harm-no foul. If he was 18 and doing the deed with an 11 year old - castrate him.
Slow day…….
@11:51 what you described is legal. Age of consent is 16 in Mississippi even if he was over 21. As long as he wasn’t in a “position of trust”
Screenshot of his Sex Offender Registry page shows he was born June 1983 and Conviction date of September 8 2008.
Why am I hearing dueling banjos when I open this thread?
why in the hell are these people told to register as a sex offender? why isn't that automatically done? are we really going to depend on the convicted sex offender to register as a sex offender? really?? sounds like a process a sex offender would come up with.
JFC you can't fix stoopid!
1:23, Why are you asking us? Do you really expect JJ readers to know the answers to all those questions? Have you actually attempted to locate statistics on registration rates for convicted sex offenders? Or are you just bitching about it because that's what you do?
1:23pm—yep, kina like The Rankin County Sheriff’s Department doing internal investigation on “The Goon Squad”
What the reward from crime-stopper for information on a non-registered sex offender?
Do you even understand what registering means for those on the sex offender registry?
What notifications Are offenders required to provide?
https://state.sor.dps.ms.gov/sor_faqs.html#q7
Offenders are required to report changes of address by personally appearing at a Driver’s License station no less than ten (10) days before first residing at the new address.
Reference: MCA Section 45-33-29(1).
Offenders are required to report changes in status of enrollment, employment, or vocation at any public or private educational institution, including any secondary school, trade or professional institution, or institution of higher education in MS by personally appearing at a Driver License station within three (3) business days of the change.
Reference: MCA Section 45-33-29(2).
Offenders are required to report any change of employment or change of name by personally appearing at a Drivers License station within three (3) business days of the change.
Reference: MCA Section 45-33-29(3).
A person convicted of a sex offense who volunteers for an organization in which volunteers have direct, private or unsupervised contact with minors shall notify the organization in writing of the person’s conviction prior to the time of volunteering.
Reference: MCA Section 45-33-32.
Any person convicted of a sex offense who is employed in any position or contracts with a person to provide personal services where the employment position or personal services contract will bring the person in close regular contact with children shall notify in writing the employer or the person with whom the person has contracted of his sex offender status. This applies to all sex offenders regardless of date of conviction.
Reference: Section 7 SB2527 (2006).
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What is the ninety (90) day reregistration and verification requirement?
All registrants are required to personally appear at any Driver’s License station in the state to re-register every ninety (90) days. Offenders must be photographed, verify their residence street address and telephone number, and name, address and telephone number of the registrant’s employment, and status at a school.
The offender must pay an $11.00 fee and will be issued a new sex offender card. The card specifies the offender’s next 90-day re-registration date which he is required to report to the Driver’s License station. The offender is responsible for maintaining his reregistration. The MDPS does NOT send out any type of reminder or other notification regarding the offender’s 90-day re-registration requirement.
Reference: MCA Section 45-33-31 for 90-day reregistration and verification requirements.
March 2, 2026 at 2:08 PM; i'm asking on here because there are actual lawyers and others that frequent this site that may have some insight into this. and no, i haven't even attempted to locate registration rates, cause it should be 100%. it shouldn't be up to the convicted sex offender to register, it should be automatic. and that seems like something even you would want to bitch about.
If I'm an offender and plan to move tomorrow, how could I notify the registry no less than ten days before tomorrow?
Is it my imagination (or does KF have a hard on for Niknar), but does Rankin lead the state in these particular criminal issues?
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