A man is arrested for attacking a woman out on her morning run on Monday, April 14. Xavier Carter, 23, was identified as the possible suspect wanted for attacking the 18-year-old woman on the walking trail behind the Oakland’s Park on Maney Avenue around 8:30 a.m. Monday. Carter was taken into custody that afternoon after…
The Murfreesboro Police Department (MPD) Criminal Investigations Division (CID) detectives are actively investigating a recent increase in motor vehicle burglaries occurring throughout the city. These incidents have been reported at various locations including hotels, apartment complexes, and residential areas. Police are urging Murfreesboro residents to remain vigilant and to avoid confronting the burglars, who are…
The Murfreesboro Police Department’s (MPD) Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) utilized gunshot detection technology to quickly apprehend three suspects involved in separate shooting incidents that occurred on March 17 and March 28. There were no calls to 911 to report shots being fired, instead alerts from gunshot detection sensors generated a police response to Lee…
An 18-year-old driver who accidentally cut off a second driver in traffic “feared for her life” when the second driver allegedly threatened her with a handgun, a Rutherford County Sheriff’s deputy reported. The driver flagged down Deputy Victoria Capps about 3:04 p.m., Tuesday on Northwest Broad Street near Interstate 840 to report the alleged assault….
A suspected drug distributor in La Vergne is under arrest. La Vergne Police narcotics detectives began investigating Dajuion Shaw in January and received a search warrant for Shaw’s home on March 13. After searching the property on Quiet Lane, detectives seized nearly 1.5 lbs of marijuana, one gun, and more than $2,000 in suspected drug…
A Murfreesboro man accused of raping three unconscious women has entered into a plea agreement and will spend the next 16 years in prison. Immanuel Webb, 39, plead guilty to two counts of rape and one count of attempted rape during a hearing on February 14 in Rutherford County Circuit Court. Chancellor Howard Wilson sentenced…
The Murfreesboro Police Department Criminal Investigations Division (CID) detectives are currently investigating a rash of vehicle break-ins at several hotels off Medical Center Boulevard on Sunday, Feb. 9. Two vehicles were also reported stolen. A total of 39 vehicles were broken into at three hotels and an apartment building in the Conference Center Blvd. area…
Fatal Accident Crash Team investigators have charged and arrested a Murfreesboro man in the fatal crash on Middle Tennessee Blvd. on Jan. 27. Ewarth Chesney, 50, of Murfreesboro, is facing two-counts of vehicular homicide, and aggravated assault (recklessness). 35-year-old Sylvio Victor from Antioch died at the scene. A 5-year-old child died from injuries five days…
Three Florida men have been arrested in connection with a multi-state organized retail theft ring, thanks to the collaborative efforts of the Murfreesboro Police Department’s Crime Data Analysis Unit (CAD), license plate reader (LPR) cameras, Smyrna (TN) Police Department (SPD), Henderson Police Department (HVPD) and Goodlettsville Police Department. The suspects are accused of stealing more…
Murfreesboro Police Department Criminal Investigations Division Violent Crime Unit detectives are investigating the fatal shooting of a one-year-old baby and the injury of the mother. The shooter took his own life in Williamson County, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Officers responded to reports of shots fired at the Chelsea Place Apartments on Bradyville…