A routine traffic stop by Murfreesboro Police Department Directed Patrol Unit officers nets nearly three-quarters of a million dollars, drugs, and loaded guns on Wednesday, Feb. 9. Police arrested two people. Officers conducted a traffic stop on a U-Haul where the driver failed to stop at a stop sign. He has been identified as James…
Smyrna Police Department (SPD) is searching for a vehicle that struck a pedestrian and fled the scene. On Wednesday, February 02, 2022, at 5:55 p.m., SPD was notified that a pedestrian had been hit by a vehicle on Mitchell Avenue at Fairview Avenue in Smyrna, TN. The vehicle left the scene without stopping. The pedestrian…
An undercover operation by the Murfreesboro Police Department Special Investigation Division Narcotics Unit resulted in the arrest of a Hermitage man for possession of illegal drugs and mushrooms. Orville Alphonso McKinley, 46, is facing three charges for selling Schedule I narcotics. He was taken into custody Thursday, Feb. 3 in the Walmart Neighborhood Market parking…
Murfreesboro Police Department Criminal Investigations Division (CID) Crimes Against Property detectives arrest a man for multiple vehicle thefts and break-ins over a two-day period. Brett Smith, 26, of Murfreesboro, was asleep in a stolen Ford F-250 pickup on West Main Street Thursday, Feb. 3. He was arrested and charged with theft over $60,000, theft over…
UPDATE: The two MPD officers injured in an attack with a box cutter on Friday have been released from the hospital. One officer was treated for a cut to his face. The other, a cut to his arm. The investigation is ongoing. UPDATE: Justin Gordon, 21, was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder…
Sheriff’s school resource officers charged a La Vergne High School student Wednesday after he allegedly threatened a girl after a ballgame Tuesday, SRO supervisors said. The visibly shaken girl told SRO Matthew Arrington she was talking to a boy when her ex-boyfriend and three other people pulled up after a ballgame Tuesday at Smyrna High…
The Rutherford County Fire Marshal’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance to provide any information aiding in the investigation into use of improvised incendiary devices (commonly known as Molotov Cocktails) against the Hazen Brigade Monument located at the Stones River National Battlefield. This monument is located on the north side of Old Nashville Highway just…
Two men are arrested as part of a multi-state crime spree, accused of breaking into cars at fitness centers, stealing credit cards and checkbooks, and then using them to make fraudulent purchases. Kenneth Jackson, 41, of Atlanta, and Jeremy Ottinger, 42, of Nashville, were arrested at a Nashville motel with the help of Metro Nashville…
A North Carolina man wanted for killing his wife and leaving with their 3-year-old daughter Wednesday was arrested by Rutherford County Sheriff’s deputies and Murfreesboro Police at a motel tonight in Murfreesboro, authorities said. Brent James Bockes, 50, of Sanford, N.C., faces charges of first-degree murder of his wife, Deanna Michelle Bockes, whose body was…
MPD Criminal Investigations Division Property Crime detectives have been investigating a theft of property case at Walmart since October 27, 2021, and now need help identifying two persons of interest. The investigation indicates two young males entered Walmart located at 140 Joe B. Jackson Pkwy., and took two Apple watches, a computer tower, modem, and…