<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1Y47Y7_0wBC6Zsa00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1Y47Y7_0wBC6Zsa00" width="1320" height="743" >SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse Police have announced the arrest of Corrice Parks, and have charged him with criminal possession of a weapon, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third and seventh degree. Parks is already under investigation for his alleged role in helping to bury and conceal the body of 5-year-old Nefertiti Harris, daughter of his then-girlfriend Latasha Mott.Court papers obtained by CNY Central say on October 11, police observed what they believed to be a gun in Parks' waistband in the 1100 block of Geddes Street. Police say when they approached Parks, he ran from them and dumped his firearm into another person's lap to try and conceal it. Police say the firearm was located and appeared to be a black semi-automatic 9mm handgun with a defaced serial number. Police also say the firearm was loaded with a high-capacity magazine capable of containing 17 rounds.After taking Parks into custody, police searched his vehicle and say they found a large quantity of narcotics. Police say inside Park's car was a clear, knotted plastic bag containing a white powdery substance which tested positive for cocaine. Also in the car was 110 glassine envelopes packaged in a bundle containing a substance which tested positive for fentanyl. Police say the manner of packaging indicates he may have intended to sell the substances on the street.At a court hearing Thursday, a judge revoked Parks' bail and returned him to police custody.In early January of 2024, police say Parks then girlfriend, Latasha Mott, beat her five year old daughter, Nefertiti Harris, to death.According to officers, Mott said that she hit Harris multiple times with a belt in the shower at 127 W. Beard Ave. on January 6 as a form or corporal punishment. Mott allegedly left Nefertiti's body in the basement of a second home before moving her to a shallow grave site in the woods off of Salt Springs Road roughly five days later.It's at this stage that police believe Corrice Parks got involved. Police say Parks, along with Mott, helping to move Nefertiti to the site at Salt Springs Road. In addition to being charged with concealment of a human corpse, Parks is also charged with hindering prosecution in the first degree, accused of not telling police about Mott's whereabouts when authorities began searching for her in early March.Police found Harris' body on March 25 after Mott confessed to hiding her and told them more specifically where to look. Harris had been missing for nearly three months with CPS and the Syracuse City School District unable to get a firm grasp of her whereabouts. Police initiated a missing persons search on March 23 after the girl's former foster mother and biological grandmother realized that Mott had been telling each of the women that Harris was staying with the other, when neither of them had seen her for months, according to Police Chief Joe Cecile.</div></body>

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse Police have announced the arrest of Corrice Parks, and have charged him with criminal possession of a weapon, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third and seventh degree. Parks is already under investigation for his alleged role in helping to bury and conceal the body of 5-year-old Nefertiti Harris, daughter of his then-girlfriend Latasha Mott.