Debbie Loggins, the 33-year-old woman who died recently in the custody of the Carroll County Sheriff's Department, had been released from probation just eight months earlier.
Mississippi Department of Corrections records show that Loggins pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on Nov. 9, 1999, in Grenada County Circuit Court.
The judge sentenced her to 10 years in prison with five years suspended. She was placed on supervised probation for five years. Her victim wasn't named in the records.
Loggins' family members have acknowledged that the mother of five had a volatile temper when provoked.
She wouldn't start fights but would respond to aggressive moves, said Stephanie Tidwell, Loggins' cousin.
Loggins once got into an altercation with another woman, had to pay her medical expenses and served time on probation, Tidwell said.
It's uncertain if this is the same case for which she recently was released from probation.
MDOC records also show that Loggins was charged with shoplifting more than a year ago. She was scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 18, 2004.
But the location and disposition of the charge weren't available through MDOC records, said Tara Frazier, a corrections department spokeswoman.
Loggins died after her arrest on Sept. 17 for fighting with another woman.
Carroll County Sheriff Don Gray has said Loggins resisted arrest and reacted with such force that she had to be tied hands-to-feet in the back of a patrol car when she was driven to jail in Grenada.
A deputy found her unconscious, in the patrol car outside the jail. She was transported to a Grenada hospital and pronounced dead.
Authorities, including Gray and state Highway Patrol investigators, have refused to release information on Loggins' cause of death.
