VICKSBURG, Miss.--Michael Pembleton won't serve time in jail, but the shame that comes with a shoplifting arrest while you're the mayor of Sunflower likely won't go away any time soon. The 25-year-old pled guilty in Warren County court Friday, getting no jail time, but being ordered to serve three years on probation and pay a $1,000 fine.

Vicksburg Police arrested the mayor at the Dillard's at Pemberton Square Mall March 12. They got a tip that Pembleton was taking designer purses. Several boxes of them were found in his trunk. The value-over $7,000.

Pembleton had access to the purses as a part-time employee at the store.

Sunflower is in the Delta, north of Indianola on Hwy. 49.

This is from Pembleton's Linkedin profile:

The Honorable Mayor Michael Pembleton Jr. of Sunflower, Mississippi is the 1st Elected-African American Male Mayor of Sunflower,the youngest to ever be elected at age 22, and the youngest to be elected in the State of Mississippi. 

His goals in life are to always remain a voice for the younger generation and an advocate for men. He has and still devotes his time daily to unite people for a common purpose. That purpose is to live a life that will be pleasing by God's eyesight.