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POLICE ARREST SUSPECT IN PANTY THEFT
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BOUNCER ABUSE: IS IT A PROBLEM ON THE SQUARE?
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JOSEPH PAUL LILLO
BY LANCE INGRAM City News Editor
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A suspect was apprehended and taken into custody in the case of the panty thief Sunday morning around 1 a.m. Joseph Paul Lillo has been charged with 11 counts of burglary and has been denied bond. Lillo is 32 years old and is employed as a mill worker. He is currently being held at the Lafayette County Detention Center. Around 6:24 p.m. Saturday, October 2, the Oxford Police Department received a report of a burglary on Eagle Nest Lane in Oxford. When the responding officers arrived, they were met by the victim who said someone had entered her home and stolen some of her under garments. “Investigating officers were advised that there was a possible witness to the burglary,” Oxford Police Chief Mike Martin said in a press release. “Witness provided information of a suspicious vehicle around the victim’s home earlier that day.” The officers traced the tag number to a suspect’s location in Marshall County. Investigators obtained a search warrant for the residence and the vehicle. Investigators from Oxford Police Department, Lafayette County Sheriff ’s Department and the Marshall County Sheriff ’s Department served the warrant to the resident around 1 a.m. Sunday. The suspect was taken into custody and evidence was recovered. The Oxford panty bandit has reportedly struck 14 times in Lafayette County since June, with the most recent burglary being Sunday, September 26.
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
ADDISON DENT | The Daily Mississippian
People pack the alleyway near the Library Bar and Grill.
BY ELAN LLOYD The Daily Mississippian
Whether someone has started a fight, been caught drinking underage, or has just become too intoxicated, seeing someone escorted by a bouncer from a bar isn’t an uncommon site in most college towns. Although, with these escorts come stories of people being slapped and punched, thrown into walls and even left bruised and bloody. But how much of that is abuse by bouncers or deserved on the patrons end? “I once saw someone openhand slapped outside The Li-
brary (Sports Bar),” junior Lee the cases of serious injury from Treadway said. “But honestly, a bouncer are few and far behe deserved it. He was trying tween,” she said. to sneak back in after being A former bouncer from The escorted out and screaming in Library, who wished to remain the bouncer’s face, as well as anonymous, admits sometimes hitting him.” bouncers do abuse their power She said the incident was the and violate boundaries set up only time she’s witnessed any- for everyone’s safety, but said thing more physical than just these bouncers are very unsomeone escorted out of the common. bar by a bouncer. “We are told to avoid fightSenior Tasia Katsotis has ing at any cost, and to try and heard stories of people serious- settle the situation by removly injured, but has never seen it ing the person in a forceful but first-hand. nonviolent way,” he said. “If “I don’t really think that the situation escalates – say, the bouncer abuse is a huge problem on the Square – I feel that See BOUNCER, PAGE 4
Postgame follow-up: Did you stay? Did you stay the whole game in light of Romaro Miller’s column last week?
Haley Hodges
Kimberly La Cour
Andrew Barry
David Lee
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sophomore
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“I had to leave before halftime during the game because my family was here. I have stayed the whole time every other home game.”
“I stayed the whole game. I always try to stay.”
“I left at halftime to go back to the Grove because we were winning.”
“I think there were more people at the game than usual because we were winning.”
Campus News Editor
Voting will commence tomorrow at 8 a.m. to choose the on-
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OXFORD BEEKEEPERS COME OUT OF HIDING page 7
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Reminder: Vote in mascot poll tomorrow BY RACHEL CLARK
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field mascot. It will take place on the mascot selection committee’s website, not MyOleMiss. The website is mascot.ole-
miss.edu. All full-time students, season ticket holders, members of the alumni association, faculty and staff are eligible to vote.
WHERE IS THE CROWD? page 12