A Nashville man and woman, accused of robbing two businesses at gunpoint, have been arrested. John T. Harris, 43, and Samira Bostic, 25, were taken into custody without incident at the Safari Inn Monday night, Nov. 2. Bostic and Harris face two counts of aggravated robbery. Harris has an additional charge of possession of a…
Murfreesboro becomes the 7th Emergency Communications Center in Tennessee to decrease processing and response times for home and business alarm-related calls by implementing The Monitoring Association’s Automated Secure Alarm Protocol program or ASAP. The ASAP program went live on Thursday, Oct. 29. The ASAP to PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point) is an electronic method of…
Smyrna Police Department (SPD) recently hosted a ceremony pinning five new officers. The pinning ceremony is the culmination of an intense officer training period, including 12 weeks of in-residence training at The Tennessee Law Enforcement Academy and 16 weeks of internal training with SPD. Officer Malcolm Boyd, Officer Devonte Johnson, Officer Rebekah Ronin, Officer Erin…
Murfreesboro Police Department (MPD) Sergeant Brad Ballard retires after 30 years of dedicated service. “The men and women of the department are not only best friends, they are family,” Ballard said. “The best thing I did in life, other than becoming a parent, was becoming a mentor to the officers on the midnight shift.” Ballard…
A Jackson man, already on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Sex Offender Registry, has been convicted by a Rutherford County jury for raping a 12-year-old girl in March 2018, in an unrelated case. “In my experience of working child sexual abuse cases, the vast majority of times the perpetrator is someone close, someone, that is…
A Nashville man is shot and left for dead in his vehicle in Murfreesboro on Saturday, Oct. 24. 22-year-old Blake Boulton was found near the intersection of Stonewall Blvd. and N. Tennessee Blvd. by a Murfreesboro Police Department (MPD) officer responding to a call of people hearing gunshots in the area around 12:50 a.m. Boulton…
A man, with drugs, in a stolen vehicle plows through a red light causing a multi-vehicle crash after police attempted to make a traffic stop for reckless driving on Tuesday, Oct. 20. An unknown male passenger is still on the run. 18-year-old Steven Birdwell is facing drug violations, theft, reckless driving, evading arrest, leaving the…
Chain saws, weed eaters, drills, tools, and home security systems are some of the items Murfreesboro Police Department (MPD) detectives recovered that were stolen from various businesses and sold to a local pawn shop. Robert Cornelison, 34, of Woodbury, is facing four counts of theft, Sandra Cornelison, 39, of Woodbury, is facing four counts of…
Smyrna Police Chief Kevin Arnold is the recipient of the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police (TACP) 2020 Joe Casey Award. The award was presented by TACP Past President and Retired Metro Police Chief Joe Casey earlier this evening. Chief Arnold began his law enforcement career in 1980 as an officer with the Middle Tennessee…
Officers have TASED and detained one man who crashed a vehicle into a police squad car in the back parking lot at the La Vergne Police Department. Several officers were in the parking lot around 7:30 p.m. when the collision occurred. The officers drew their weapons and ordered the driver out of the car. When…