RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – A man has been sentenced in Rankin County after he broke into a home and stole a child’s piggy bank.

Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney Bubba Bramlett said Dennis Anthony Walker, of Mendenhall, was sentenced on April 22, 2025, to serve 25 years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC).

On October 13, 2023, Rankin County deputies responded to a home on Clara Foote Road for a house burglary. They said the home had been ransacked, and a child’s piggy bank had been stolen.

Deputies canvased the area, and neighbors reported seeing a man running from the house into a wooded area. Authorities searched the area, but they only found a pair of flip flops.

Continuing their search, Bramlett said deputies located a vehicle in the woods. They discovered the vehicle belonged to Walker. He was later arrested in Simpson County.

According to Bramlett, Walker had previous convictions in neighboring counties for house burglary.