The convicted felon charged Friday morning with two of the 37 business burglaries reported last month has been charged with three more, Vicksburg police said.

Darrah Williams, 38, 742 Dabney Ave., was charged with the Tuesday burglaries of The Ivy Place on North Frontage Road and Toney’s Restaurant on Mission 66 and the Jan. 12 break-in at River Outfitters on Halls Ferry Road, said Capt. Mark Culbertson.

Nothing was reported missing at any of the businesses.

Williams was not charged with the Jan. 12 burglaries of two other businesses located in the same shopping complex as River Outfitters – Edward Jones Investment and Branning Enterprises – but Culbertson said ongoing investigations could result in further charges.

&#8220Hopefully we will be able to prove some more eventually,” he said.

On Friday morning, Williams was charged with the Tuesday break-ins at CDS Home Care and the dental office of Robert Sadler, the same night he is accused of hitting The Ivy Place and Toney’s, Culbertson said.

The 37 burglaries, thefts and attempted break-ins at local businesses in January is about triple the 2005 monthly average. More than half were in a square-mile area near Interstate 20, encompassing Mission 66, Indiana Avenue, North and South Frontage roads and Halls Ferry Road.

Williams was being held on another charge when the break-in charges were filed Friday. He had been stopped by officers at Clay and Washington streets Wednesday afternoon on a misdemeanor warrant, Culbertson said, and he was arrested when a switchblade was found in his car. As a convicted felon, he is not allowed to possess a weapon.

Williams was charged in October 1995 with a string of business burglaries dating to 1988 and had spent nearly a decade in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman before being released last summer, Culbertson said.

He was on parole from the Mississippi Department of Corrections, which was scheduled to return Williams to Parchman Friday afternoon. Instead, Culbertson said, Williams will stay over the weekend at the Warren County Jail until his arraignment Monday on the burglary charges. MDOC will then drive Williams back to the penitentiary.

Police are also looking for another suspect in last month’s burglaries – a 5-foot-9-inch black male in his 20s with a medium complexion.

The suspect does not appear to be associated with Williams, Culbertson said.

&#8220We can’t tie them together,” he said.