On Oct 1, 2010 Prentiss County Deputies arrested Jimmy Green Tucker 33 of 37 CR 2291 Booneville and charged him with Burglary and Larceny. The charges stem from burglaries that occurred back on Friday 02/19/2010 and Sunday morning 02/21/2010 in the Cairo community. Tucker had been suspect in the burglaries along with a couple of our people. During the investigation we recovered some of the loot along with key pieces of evidence that we submitted to the Mississippi Crime Lab. The case hinged on the results of the examination of the evidence. We we ultimately got the results from the crime lab, and were able to eliminate the other two suspects and positively conclude that it was Tucker. This is the first case in which we used DNA evidence to solve a case of this nature rather than a case involving a death or sexual related crime. Previously when we had evidence involving DNA we had to submit that evidence to a private lab for analysis and one sample might cost thousands of dollars for a comparison. The reason being is that up until the last couple years our State Crime Lab didn't have the capability to do such tests. We are very fortunate now that the Lab does have the technicians and means to retrieve, test and match DNA samples at very little cost to an Agency. It will make a great impact on Law Enforcement Investigations in Mississippi.
Tucker had been arrested last year on drug charges and was sentenced to Drug Court. He will be revoked from the program and face that penalty along with the present charges. He remains in custody at this time. This is no reflection on the Drug Court. Our Drug Court has had a tremendous impact in reducing the number of those that Repeat Offend. This is just one of a very few that has not successfully complied with the conditions of supervision of Drug Court. Our Investigators and Deputies did an outstanding job in these cases.

Sheriff Randy M Tolar