More charges could be coming against the convicted felon charged last week with a handful of the three dozen business burglaries reported in the city in January, said Vicksburg Police.

Darrah Williams, 38, 742 Dabney Ave., was charged Friday with five burglaries. Four of them – The Ivy Place, Toney’s Restaurant, the dental office of Dr. Robert Sadler and CDS Home Care – were reported early on Jan. 31. Williams was also charged with breaking into River Outfitters on Halls Ferry Road on Jan. 12.

He was not charged with two other burglaries in the same shopping complex on Jan. 12, or with the first burglary of CDS Home Care, which reported its front window broken and $40 missing on Jan. 25. Williams is accused of taking $240 from CDS on Jan. 31, but none of the other four businesses he was charged with burglarizing reported anything missing.

Vicksburg Police have sent to the Mississippi Crime Lab fingerprints and shoeprints and are investigating a number of other burglaries that could lead to more charges against Williams, said Capt. Mark Culbertson.

&#8220We’re taking 30 business burglaries and going through them one by one,” said Culbertson. &#8220Not that he’s a suspect in all 30 of them. Any burglaries in that time frame, we’re going through to rule them out.”

Williams, on parole from the Mississippi Department of Corrections since August after spending nine years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary for a string of burglaries dating to 1988, will be back in MDOC custody soon and will await a disciplinary hearing, said MDOC spokesman Nic Lott.

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.

Three businesses – CDS Home Care, CitiFinancial on Indiana Avenue and CompUDoc Inc. on Clay Street – had multiple break-ins or attempted break-ins during the month. Several doctors’ offices and other health-related businesses near each other on Mission 66 and Mission Park Drive were also targeted on different nights.

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 on Feb. 1 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.