Jenita Jones, 39, remains in a Nashville jail this morning in lieu of a $5,000 bond. She is charged with child abuse and domestic assault, after police say she punched her 15-year-old daughter with her fists, and then hit her in the face with a belt, as punishment for stealing a candy bar and a bag of chips from a store.
Year: 2018
DCSO: Woman found with 2 crack pipes, lighter, & box of meth, in her ‘prison purse’ during booking
DCSO was booking 40-year-old Ginger Burgess into custody when, during a search, 2 crack pipes, a lighter, and a box of methamphetamine, were all recovered from her ‘prison purse’.
Metro to settle excessive use-of-force lawsuit against Sheriff’s Dept for $160,000.00
Metro Nashville is set to settle an excessive use-of-force lawsuit against the Davidson County Sheriff’s Department for $110,000.00, with an additional $50,000.00 allotted for attorney fees. While being booked, Timothy Warren was punched in the face, knocked to the ground, his body repeatedly slammed onto the floor, resulting in multiple physical injuries, including a broken fibula, a right ankle fracture, ankle dislocation, and facial lacerations.
Metro Council set to vote on “Encouraging” NES to round-up your payment each month, without your permission
NES isn’t getting enough people to ‘opt-in’ to round their bill up to the next whole dollar, to benefit their ‘Home Energy Uplift’ program, so they’re asking the Metro Council for their blessing to OPT-IN every single Nashvillian to the program, without asking their for permission, increasing the amount they pay each month. The council will vote on the resolution Wednesday night.
Police walk up on man weighing cocaine on a scale in his lap beside handgun
Christopher Tefteller, 38, was arrested on weapon and drug charges after police walked up on him weighing out cocaine in his car while parked on Norton Avenue, in North East Nashville.
MNPD K-9 Ringo gets his guy: Jairo Hernandez arrested
Metro Police K-9 Ringo and his partner, Officer Spencer Harris, tracked 21-year-old Jairo Hernandez, who was wanted for burglary, on Blackman Drive this afternoon, where he was taken into custody after being found hiding in a shed.
Man arrested after taping nude photos of wife to her apartment door during divorce
Manuel Henry, 52, was arrested early Friday morning, on an outstanding warrant charging him with unlawful exposure, after he posted nude photos of his wife on the outside of her apartment door, for everyone in the complex to view. The couple is in the middle of a contested divorce.
Reality TV star Julie Chrisley served with $157K civil judgment
Julie Chrisley finds herself back in a Nashville courtroom this month, fighting yet another financial judgment against her. In June we reported on the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office serving a judge’s order to enter the Nashville home of Julie Chrisley (of Chrisley Knows Best fame) and seize her clothing, jewelry, and other personal property, to satisfy a $20,802.87 judgment that the reality TV star had not paid. The new judgment is more than 7x that amount.
Grand Jury Indicts Tuan Van on Attempted First Degree Murder
Tuan stepped out of his vehicle, wearing a yellow glove on his hand that was gripping a handgun. Tuan then pointed the gun at the victim, who was now sitting in her vehicle, and demanded that she open the door of the vehicle, or he would shoot her.
Man found asleep in stolen car, in the middle of the road, with hollow point bullets in loaded pistol & counterfeit money
Erik Hooks-Williams, 19, was arrested on Saturday, after he was found asleep in a stolen car, in the middle of a street in East Nashville, with a loaded pistol in his shorts, hollow point bullets, and counterfeit money in his car.
Zyqiius Barnes to sister: “Look what you made me do”, after killing her boyfriend & shooting sister in buttock
In a just obtained affidavit, police state that after Zyqiius Barnes shot his sister in her buttock and fired two shots into her boyfriend, killing him, he turned to his injured sister and said: “Look what you made me do”.
Grand Jury adds new charges to Nashville Monk accused in sex abuse of 16-year-old boy
Sayasith Sitthipanyo, a 58-year-old Nashville Monk at the Wat Lao Xaoput Buddhist Temple, now faces 22 felony charges after he was arrested in June and charged with several counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and displaying sex acts to a minor, who was a then 16-year-old boy who the monk sometimes paid for work around the temple.
DUI Arrest: Man wrecks, flees scene, wrecks again less than a minute later
Evan Hurley, 33, was arrested just before midnight on Friday night, when police say he wrecked twice within a quarter-mile stretch of Harding Place, with no memory of either crash.
THP Trooper demoted within 20 minutes of filing open records request into fraud allegations of Sergeant
THP Trooper Michael Parker filed a complaint with the state concerning a THP Sergeant that was allegedly falsifying time sheets. He then filed an open records request regarding the inquiry, and was demoted within 20 minutes of filing the request.
No charges filed in Antioch shooting death of Alijah Williams, 18
Metro Police say they won’t be filing charges at this time in the Christmas day shooting death of 18-year-old Alijah Williams, on Creekview Drive. Williams was shot and killed by 19-year-old Montarius Bean on the front porch, then went to his car, where he died.
Shoplifting couple arrested after man stuffs Louis Vuitton bag down front of sweat pants
Heather Jared, 45, and Greg Jared, 42, have both been charged with attempted theft after they were caught shoplifting at Dillard’s in Rivergate. Greg was caught with a $1365 Louis Vuitton bag stuffed down the front of his sweatpants.
Car left running outside store results in arrest, illegal handgun & drugs
“Sorry, my bad, I left it running”, is what 27-year-old Kyle Denzel Wilson told Metro Police as he exited the gas station where he had left his purple Dodge Challenger running outside. That casual encounter quickly turned into an arrest for drugs & handgun possession, after Wilson lied about having a handgun carry permit.
Antioch man accused of offering internet access to 13-year-old in exchange for sexual act #Arrested
#Antioch: 49-year-old Linzer Pope is arrested after he attempted to leverage his wireless internet password to induce a minor into a sexual act.
Traffic stop leads to drugs found under hood, in gas cap… meth, heroin, & pills
A traffic stop for a non-illuminated license plate resulted in the arrest of 2 people, and the seizure of money and drugs hidden throughout the car, including under the hood and in the gas cap.
20-year-old Amanuel Adane identified as murder victim in Bellevue KFC parking lot
Police have identified 20-year-old Amanuel Adane as the man shot in the parking lot of a Hicks Road KFC in West Nashville Saturday night. Police say he met with 2 men who entered the backseat of his car, and after about five minutes, shot him and fled the scene.
Nashville father beat 6-year-old with ‘selfie stick’ after she accidentally broke it
29-year-old Aaron Moore has been arrested and charged with child abuse, after he left welts on his 6-year-old daughter’s back. He is charged with beating her with a selfie stick that she accidentally broke while playing.
Father punches 16-year-old daughter in stomach for ‘talking with a boy’
34-year-old Juan Coochpop is charged with child abuse, after he punched his 16-year-old daughter in stomach for ‘talking with a boy’, according to witnesses. He is free on pre-trial release.
MNPD: 33-year-old refuses to exit car to be arrested until mother arrives on-scene
Once ordered out of the vehicle to be arrested by MNPD, 33-year-old Princess Sanders called her mother, and waited on her arrival on-scene before she obeyed officers commands to exit the vehicle to be arrested.
Nashville nurse sentenced to 1-year probation, then conviction expunged, for criminally negligent homicide.
A Nashville nurse killed a man by injecting him with methamphetamine, a service for which he was paid $200 a month. The nurse, Jason Faith, struck a plea deal, approved by Judge Steve Dozier, that resulted in no jail time, 12 months probation, and his record expunged after 12 months.
Prison Health worker had sex with inmate in storage closet of Nashville Prison
Brittany Calderon, 23, arrested & charged with having sex with TDOC inmate Kuantraveous Williams, 28, who is serving a 20-year sentence for Facilitation of First Degree Murder
