Parents Charged With Kidnapping

James Homilton

Kimberly Hamilton

BOONEVILLE, Miss (WCBI) – A North Mississippi husband and wife are jailed after their arrest by Prentiss County investigators.

43 year old James Hamilton and 27 year old Kimberly Hamilton are each charged with 3 counts of parental kidnapping after the pair were spotted driving a stolen S-U-V.

Investigators had been looking for the Hamiltons ever since Union County officials alerted them that the two could be in Prentiss County.

The pair surrendered without incident and the three children in the truck were returned to their grandparents. In

addition to the Union County kidnapping charges. James Hamilton faces an embezzlement charge in Lowndes County and Kim Hamilton is wanted on bad check charges in Union County.