MPD officers have detained three people who took off running after bailing out of a stolen pickup shortly before 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4. MPD’s Real Time Crime Center License Plate Reader cameras alerted officers of the stolen truck. The Chevy Silverado was reportedly stolen from Kentucky. Officers spotted the vehicle near Lytle and Middle…
Murfreesboro Police Department (MPD) detectives arrest two masked men for stealing thousands of dollars in Magic: The Gathering cards from a comic store on Sept. 24. Phillip Clodfelter, 42, of Huntsville, Ala., and Kelly Garner, 64, who is homeless, broke into the Grand Adventures Comics and Games on Memorial Blvd. by shattering the glass front…
License Plate Reader (LPR) technology played a crucial role in identifying the vehicle believed to have hit and killed 49-year-old Caterina Hill on N. Thompson Lane on Sunday, Aug. 18. Murfreesboro Police Department Crime Data Analysts, Fatal Accident Crash Team (FACT) investigators and Criminal Investigation Division detectives reviewed LPR camera footage all day on Monday…
The pedestrian killed by a hit and run driver over the weekend has been identified as 49-year-old Caterina R. Hill, of Murfreesboro. Hill’s body was discovered around 6 a.m. on Sunday in the street next to the curb in front of 845 N. Thompson Lane. According to the preliminary investigation by the Murfreesboro Police Department…
Murfreesboro Police Department newly created Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit detectives have arrested a Murfreesboro man on child pornography charges. Detectives also assisted Homeland Security Investigations with arresting a Texas man and dismantling a possible child porn ring in the Lone Star state. Detectives arrested registered sex offender, 44-year-old Edward Van Epps of Murfreesboro…
Riverdale High School girls’ soccer coach Nathan Sweet was charged with two counts of statutory rape by an authority figure and sexual exploitation of a minor. Rutherford County Sheriff’s detectives charged him Monday after an investigation. Sweet, 35, of Murfreesboro is being held on $75,000 bond at Rutherford County Adult Detention Center. A hearing is…
Murfreesboro Police Department (MPD) detectives are searching for the three individuals who used a stolen truck and crowbar to try, and pry open an ATM, but their efforts failed. No money was taken. Officers responded to a burglary alarm at the Ascend Federal Credit Union on W. Clark Blvd. at 1:50 a.m. Sunday. Officers found…
Surveillance video of a smash and grab-style burglary at a Murfreesboro gun store shows thieves ramming the doors with a stolen car, running inside, grabbing weapons, and leaving the business in roughly a minute. The search for the suspects continues. Police responded to the Bullseye Gun & Range on Shelby Street around 4 a.m. Saturday,…
Thieves in a stolen car from Nashville crash through two locked gates and ram into the front doors of Bulleye Gun & Range on Shelby Street stealing several long guns and handguns early Saturday morning. A burglary alarm alerted police around 4 a.m. Officers arrived to find the stolen car abandoned on the scene. The…
MPD detectives are looking for a person of interest in a theft from a vehicle case. On May 24, a car burglary victim noticed her car had been rummaged through at a residence on Greenland Drive and her wallet missing. On the same day, an unknown man, who is believed to be the same person…