West Tennessee Drug Task Force has record-breaking year
Johnie Carter, director of the West Tennessee Drug Task Force, speaks to reporters along-side Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy and District Attorneys General Frederick Agee (right) and Danny Goodman, Jr. (left). (Aarron Fleming/The Daily Memphian)
Due to its recent success, the task force doesn’t plan to alter its approach in the coming year.
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West Tennessee Drug Task ForceAarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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