On Monday, October 28, 2019, investigators with the Oxford Police Department were called to an apartment, rented by Syvonte Buford (21 of Oxford, Mississippi), by an agent with the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
The MDOC agent had arrived and located drugs and a stolen gun inside of the residence. Buford told the agent that he was given the gun by another person.
He was arrested and transported to the Lafayette County Detention Center where he was booked for possession of a stolen firearm and possession of a weapon by a felon. Buford was given a bond of $20,000 by a Justice Court Judge.
