January 11, 2011 JACKSON TN – Jackson police have issued an arrest warrant
charging Mario Montrell Perkins with Sexual Battery, Rape and Aggravated Statutory Rape regarding a Saturday morning attack on a 13-year-old girl. In the early morning hours of January 8, the girl was asleep at a house in the 400 block of Lexington Avenue. She was awakened by Perkins, who was there visiting at the time, inappropriately touching her. She got up to get away from him, and he followed her into another room in the house and then raped her.
Police are seeking Perkins. He is a black male, 26-years-old, around 6′ 2″ in height and weighs about 160 pounds. His last known address is in the 9000 block of Waterstone Place in Cordova.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact the Jackson Police Department at 731-425-8400, local authorities or Crime Stoppers at 731-424-8477 (TIPS).
