Murfreesboro Police Department (MPD) Chief Michael Bowen announces the promotion of three officers to the rank of sergeant at a ceremony on Friday, Jan. 28. Sergeant Megan Manus has been with MPD since January 2013. Manus has worked as a patrol officer and part of the Murfreesboro Police Alcohol Countermeasures Team (MPACT) before being promoted…
UPDATE: Murfreesboro Police Department Fatal Accident Crash Team (FACT) is investigating a fatal crash involving a pedestrian hit by a truck and run over by two more cars on Wednesday, Jan. 26. The pedestrian fatality happened on S. Church Street near Warrior Dr. at 6:10 p.m. yesterday. Murfreesboro Fire Rescue Department paramedics and Rutherford County…
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…
The driver of a truck that was hit head-on jumps out and pulls two men and woman from a wrecked car moments before it burst into flames Thursday morning. A total of five vehicles were involved in the crash. A male driver and a male passenger, in a black 2018 Infiniti G-37, was critically injured…
On January 16, 2022, 2:38pm, Smyrna Police Department personnel were dispatched to Stewarts Creek High School in response to a call regarding an unresponsive male, identified as weight-lifting coach and physical education teacher Maurice Grooms. Rutherford County Emergency Medical Services pronounced Mr. Grooms deceased at the scene where he was found near his car in…
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…
Murfreesboro Police and the FBI are searching for a man who robbed a bank on the city’s westside on Friday, Jan. 7. The bank robber may be the same man who robbed a different bank in the same area 25 days earlier, according to a police sergeant. The man robbed the Fifth Third Bank, 2437…
Amber Alert victim Riley Bockes, 3, of Sanford, N.C., eats pizza with deputies after she was rescued unharmed Wednesday in Murfreesboro. She was with her father, Brent, who faces charges of killing her mother today in Sanford. Rutherford County Sheriff’s deputies and Murfreesboro Police tracked Riley and her father to a Murfreesboro motel after Brent…
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…