Police said Tuesday that additional tampered loaves were discovered at a second Walmart in Biloxi, widening an 11-day review that began with a customer complaint at a Supercenter and now includes a Neighborhood Market on Pass Road. Investigators said thin blades were slid through plastic wrappers and lodged inside sliced bread; one earlier report involved a packaged muffin.
The update matters because it expands the timeline and scope to two locations while authorities work to determine when and how the tampering occurred. Store managers isolated the bakery aisles, pulled nearby products and checked shelves for punctured wrap. Detectives said there was no evidence of a supply-chain issue; signs point to in-store interference on specific days. By late Tuesday, police said they had identified and arrested a suspect and that the known tampered items had been removed from sale. No injuries have been reported, and hospitals did not flag related cases.
According to police and store accounts, the first recent report surfaced after a loaf bought Dec. 5 at the Supercenter on CT Switzer Sr. Drive was found with a small blade embedded. A second complaint followed from the Neighborhood Market tied to a Dec. 8 purchase. On Dec. 14, employees performing a shelf check reported several more loaves with small slits in the plastic and a glint of metal visible near the center slices. Officers documented shelves, collected packaging and blades as evidence, and began reviewing video from bakery aisles, entrances and stockroom doors to pinpoint when the items were handled.
Investigators said punctures appeared consistent with a thin blade being slid through shrink-wrap and withdrawn, leaving metal inside the bread. Managers scanned returns and lot tags to map which displays were affected. Police noted that neither back-room storage nor warehouse pallets showed signs of compromise, narrowing focus to sales-floor activity. The Neighborhood Market sits several miles west of the Supercenter; both carry overlapping brands and have extensive interior cameras, though not every shelf face is covered at all times, detectives said.
Police later announced an arrest in the case and booked a 33-year-old Texas woman on an attempted mayhem charge. A judge set bond at $100,000. Investigators said surveillance images, transaction timelines and receipts helped identify the suspect and that additional evidence — including recovered blades and packaging — would be sent for lab analysis to check for prints or residues. Authorities said there is no indication other Walmart locations were targeted beyond the two Biloxi stores.
The two stores anchor busy corridors serving Biloxi and Gulfport holiday traffic. The Supercenter off Interstate 10 draws highway shoppers; the Pass Road Neighborhood Market sits in a dense commercial strip. The incidents prompted overnight resets in the bakery sections and expanded spot checks on nearby displays. Walmart said it removed and inspected potentially affected products and is assisting police with video retrieval and stocking records.
Key unknowns remain: the total number of compromised packages, the precise hours blades were inserted and whether any single brand was singled out. Detectives said they are cross-referencing staffing rosters, camera angles and stocking scans to tighten the window and determine whether one rack or multiple endcaps were targeted. Investigators will decide later whether to release still images from surveillance after consulting prosecutors.
By Wednesday morning, evidence collection at both stores was complete and detectives were cataloging video. The next milestone is administrative: delivering a case packet to prosecutors for charging review and receiving preliminary lab results on the recovered blades and wrappers in the coming days.
Author note: Last updated December 17, 2025.