Mississippi Grand Jury Decides Not to Indict Ex-NFL Player Jerrell Powe on Kidnapping Charge

Mississippi defensive tackle Jerrell Powe talks to the media during the Southeastern Conference football media days in Hoover, Ala., on July 23, 2010. Butch Dill/AP Photo

RIDGELAND, Miss.—A Mississippi grand jury has decided not to indict former NFL player Jerrell Powe months after he was arrested on a kidnapping charge in 2023, his attorney said.

Tom Fortner told The Associated Press on Monday that he received notification from the Madison County district attorney’s office in December that a grand jury had declined to issue an indictment to send Powe to trial. Grand juries meet in private.