A Batesville man was arrested and charged with armed robbery by the Oxford Police
Department.
On May 4, OPD responded to a hotel on Jackson Avenue in regard to a robbery that involved a
firearm.
The suspect, later identified as Mardrekis Porter, 28, of Batesville, had fled the scene.
He was found a short time later hiding in the bathroom of a local business.
He was arrested and booked into the Lafayette County Detention Center. He was denied bond
due to being out on parole and a hold was placed on him by the Mississippi Department of
Corrections.