The criminal case against a former private school assistant coach accused of bank robbery is expected to be among about 100 cases to be presented this week to the Warren County Grand Jury.

Derrick Collins, 45, 170 Shannon Lane, was the part-time assistant football coach at Porters Chapel Academy when he was arrested Dec. 14 and charged with robbing the Britton and Koontz bank on U.S. 61 North of more than $3,000.

Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said Collins threatened a teller and demanded cash, then led deputies on a high-speed chase south to Warriors Trail before crashing his car into an investigator’s cruiser and being arrested.

District Attorney Ricky Smith said Collins is one of two defendants accused of bank robbery whose cases could be reviewed by the panel of 18 grand jurors selected and sworn in this morning by Circuit Court Judge M. James Chaney.

Christopher Marcel Johnson, 25, who formerly lived with his grandparents on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard but had been staying in city motels for a month before his arrest, was charged with robbing the Trustmark Bank at 1020 Mission 66 Sept. 24.

Johnson was accused of taking an unspecified amount of cash from the bank in a bag which contained a dye pack. The dye exploded as the bag was taken from the bank, and Johnson was seen spending the marked cash at city casinos the next day, police said.

Also expected to be reviewed is the case against Lemario Smoot, 24, 4275 Richmond Circle, Jackson, who was charged with the Dec. 2 robbery of the Kangaroo convenience store at 4150 Washington St. and subsequent eluding of authorities in a chase that wound through the city and onto Interstate 20 before Smoot crashed his vehicle near Edwards.

A case involving teens accused of attempted armed robbery could also be reviewed.

Defendants Ronald Bailey, 15, 320 Fisher Ferry Road, Apt. 47, and Anthony Lewis Jr., 19, and Davionte Wince, 17, both of 320 Fisher Ferry Road, Apt. 44, have been charged with the Dec. 4 attempted robbery of a man walking along Mission 66 near the ball fields at Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Smith said other cases ready for the grand jury to review include a suspected arson at a dry cleaners on Cherry Street in which no arrest has been made, burglaries, drug charges and failure to register as a sex offender.

The grand jury meets in closed session and reviews evidence against defendants in criminal cases presented by Smith and law enforcement officials from the city and county. Jurors issue indictments in cases where the evidence is sufficient to go to trial, and defendants are then arraigned in open court, a trial date is set and a defense attorney appointed if necessary.

Cases not resulting in indictments are no-billed.

Grand jurors also tour the Warren County Jail, visit the Warren County Children’s Shelter and Youth Court, meet with city and county law enforcement and justice officials and issue a written report with recommendations.

The Warren County grand jury meets four times a year, and later in 2011 will be convened July 25 and Oct. 31.