A New Hope High School senior and Ole Miss football signee is in Lowndes County Adult Detention Center after he allegedly stole firearms from someone’s home.
Lowndes County sheriff’s deputies arrested Tae-Kion Reed, 19, of 4645 Nashville Ferry Road, on Tuesday. He is accused of breaking into an acquaintance’s home in the New Hope area on Saturday and stealing about a dozen guns of various types, Capt. Ryan Rickert told The Dispatch. Authorities have recovered about half of those firearms, he added.
Reed appeared in Lowndes County Justice Court Wednesday afternoon, where he was charged with burglary of a dwelling. His bond was set at $10,000. According to jail personnel, Reed had not posted bond as of Wednesday afternoon.
Rickert and Chief Deputy Marc Miley said the investigation into the break-in is ongoing and more arrests in the case are possible.
Reed, a standout offensive and defensive lineman for New Hope and a three-star college recruit, signed with Ole Miss on National Signing Day earlier on Feb. 1. During a ceremony at the school to announce his decision, he tossed a Mississippi State cap into the crowd before putting an Ole Miss cap on his head, a way of indicating he had chosen the Rebels over their in-state rival Bulldogs.
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