On June 13, 2020, at approximately 4:53 p.m., Smyrna Police and Fire Department personnel responded to an accident in the 500 block of Nissan Drive. A truck driven by Smyrna resident Forrest Weatherford left the roadway, overturned and ejected the driver. A passenger in the vehicle was transported to TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center with minor…
The Murfreesboro Police Department is making patrol vehicle videos available consistent with the Tennessee Public Open Records Act after multiple Open Records requests from the media and private citizens of the Sunday, May 31, 2020 Murfreesboro vigil and protest. With permission from the Tennessee Highway Patrol, helicopter video is also being provided. The videos from…
One person is in custody after leading officers on a pursuit through La Vergne Thursday afternoon. An officer noticed the car speeding on Fergus Road around 8:00 p.m. After checking the license plate he learned the car had been reported stolen out of Springfield, TN around noon earlier in the day. The driver took off…
Three juveniles and an adult male are in custody after being arrested on a variety of charges, including shooting at a Murfreesboro man Friday, June 5. Murfreesboro Police Department officers responded to the scene of a possible shooting in the 300 block of E. Castle Street last Friday. A 20-year-old man reported being shot at…
A fugitive from justice wanted in the 2019 Eagle Street murder of a Murfreesboro man has been arrested in Mississippi. Thirty-year-old Delarrious Crawford, of Murfreesboro, was taken into custody in Moss Point, Mississippi Thursday morning, June 11, 2020. The U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, along with Moss Point Police Department, arrested…
Two Murfreesboro men led police on a foot chase and were later arrested for breaking into and vandalizing a church van Tuesday, June 8. Murfreesboro Police Department officers responded to the St. Marks United Methodist Church, 1267 N. Rutherford Blvd., in reference to suspicious activity. Once they arrived, they saw two men running from the…
Parents of a 2-month-old son were indicted for aggravated child abuse, neglect and endangerment charges after he suffered more than 10 fractures, a Rutherford County Sheriff’s detective said Wednesday. Father Dequavion Wilburn, 21, and mother Darla Stewart, 18, both of Wynell Way in Murfreesboro, were charged Friday after an investigation by Detective Andrea Butler. The…
Murfreesboro Mayor Shane McFarland issued an order Sunday, May 31, 2020, declaring a local ‘State of Emergency’ for the City of Murfreesboro in response to circumstances nationwide that have led to unlawful activities, including violence and destruction of property. The Order goes into effect at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 31, 2020. A curfew took…
The death of a man whose body was found in a wooded area on Robert Rose Drive Friday, May 15, has been ruled a homicide. An arrest has also been made in the case. Robert “Stump” Jenkins, 40, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 50-year-old Gino Harris. Murfreesboro Criminal Investigations Division (CID)…
Murfreesboro Police Department detectives are investigating what led to the shooting death of a Murfreesboro man on E. Northfield Blvd. Sunday, May 17. Officers were dispatched to the 700 block of E. Northfield Blvd. for an unresponsive man at 5:03 this morning. Officers found a 46-year-old man, with a gunshot wound, behind a duplex. Personnel…