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    Shelby County DA’s office won’t prosecute many revoked driver’s license cases

    For the last seven weeks, the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office has quietly dismissed more than 3,000 cases where people were charged with driving on suspended, revoked or canceled driver’s licenses.

    By Yolanda Jones October 20, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Trial set for August 2019 for mother charged in deaths of 4 children

    Shanynthia Gardner, charged with killing her four young children at her Shelby County apartment in 2016, will go to trial next summer, but whether it will be heard by a jury or the judge has not been decided.

    By Yolanda Jones October 18, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Fairgrounds TDZ plan goes to Nashville next month

    Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland's administration will take its Tourism Development Zone plan for the Fairgrounds to the Tennessee Building Commission for approval next month.

    By Bill Dries October 18, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Victim in officer-involved shooting was wanted in recent interstate shooting

    The man shot and killed by Shelby County Sheriff’s deputies early Wednesday was wanted in connection with one of several recent interstate shootings, authorities confirmed Wednesday.

    By Yolanda Jones October 18, 2018
  • Public Safety

    V Live club called public nuisance to reopen

    A Hickory Hill club closed down as a public nuisance following two homicides is reopening under court supervision and will no longer be a strip club.

    By Yolanda Jones October 16, 2018
  • Public Safety

    New initiative reduces court dates for misdemeanor citations

    Thousands of people issued misdemeanor citations each year in Memphis and Shelby County will now have to make one trip instead of two to 201 Poplar to be processed for their initial court date.

    By Yolanda Jones October 16, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Memphis police beef up patrols after three interstate shootings

    As Memphis police call for extra patrols after three recent interstate shootings, there have been at least six other roadway shootings this year. 

    By Yolanda Jones October 12, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Man shot by Memphis police officer awake and talking, his attorney says

    Martavious Banks, the man shot Sept. 17 by a Memphis police officer, is awake and talking about the night he was critically wounded, an attorney representing him said during a press conference Thursday.

    By Yolanda Jones October 11, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Lawsuit filed against city, police after man’s body was left in van for 49 days

    Attorneys representing the family of the man whose body was left in a van for seven weeks at the Memphis Police Department impound lot have filed a wrongful-death and negligence lawsuit against the city of Memphis and police director Michael Rallings.

    By Yolanda Jones October 11, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Memphis attorney Art Horne gets 30 days, probation on assault charge

    Memphis attorney Arthur “Art” Horne, acquitted of aggravated rape, aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping, was given a sentence Thursday of 11 months, 29 days’ probation and 30 days in jail on the misdemeanor assault charge he was convicted of during his August trial.

    By Yolanda Jones October 11, 2018
  • Public Safety

    18 undocumented immigrants charged in ICE sweep in Memphis and Shelby County

    More than a dozen undocumented immigrants have been indicted, including some with previous arrests and convictions, during a recent sweep by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

    By Yolanda Jones October 10, 2018
  • Public Safety

    FBI: Memphis ranks as 3rd most violent big city in US

    Memphis’ homicide rate was the third highest among the country’s 50 largest cities last year, according to the FBI’s latest data. In 2017, there were 181 homicides in Memphis, 28 deaths per 100,000 people in the city, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting statistics released last month.

    By Yolanda Jones October 09, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Banks shooting pulls MPD into national fray over reliability, proper use of bodycams

    One by one, police dashboard cameras malfunctioned that chilly night in Chicago.

    By Marc Perrusquia October 08, 2018
  • Public Safety

    DNA technology helps MPD solve 1997 rape case

    In 1997, a 14-year-old Memphis girl was raped inside her home after a man broke in and armed with a gun, held her and four women captive.

    By Yolanda Jones October 05, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Sherra Wright deemed mentally fit to stand trial in death of Lorenzen Wright

    Sherra Wright is mentally fit to stand trial in the 2010 fatal shooting of her ex-husband, NBA player Lorenzen Wright, Judge Lee Coffee said at her report hearing Friday.

    By Yolanda Jones October 05, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Suspects in Trenary homicide in court

    The family of one of the three suspects charged in the fatal shooting of Greater Memphis Chamber leader Phil Trenary said Monday that they were in "disbelief" when they learned he was arrested in connection with the homicide.

    By Yolanda Jones October 01, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Police charge three with murder in Trenary’s death

    Three people have been charged in the fatal shooting of Phil Trenary, the president and CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce, who police said was gunned down during an attempted robbery Thursday night in Downtown Memphis.

    By Yolanda Jones October 01, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Two teens in stolen truck crash charged, connection to Trenary slaying still unclear

    Memphis police have charged two teenagers who were found in a stolen pickup truck matching the description of the one seen fleeing the scene where Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Phil Trenary was shot and killed Thursday night.

    By Yolanda Jones September 29, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Suspects in custody; unclear if connected to Trenary’s slaying

    Memphis Police Department officers chased a vehicle matching the description of the truck fleeing the scene of Phil Trenary’s slaying and took two men into custody on Friday, Sept. 28.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff September 28, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Officers’ personnel records released in Banks shooting

    Personnel records of the three Memphis police officers involved in the shooting that critically wounded Martavious Banks earlier this month shed some light on their work history, including the fact this is the second time one of the officers has turned off his body camera during an incident.

    By Yolanda Jones September 27, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Police shooting reaction goes beyond call for TBI investigations

    Memphis police brass were about four minutes into Power Point slides at a Tuesday, Sept. 25, City Council committee session before council members shut down the presentation that tallied the hours of police camera recordings and number of cameras in patrol cars.

    By Bill Dries September 27, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Activists continue to demand answers in wake of Memphis officer-involved shooting

    As Martavious Banks remains on life support after being shot by a Memphis police officer Sept. 17, his family and activists marched to the Memphis Police Association office Wednesday afternoon after it was revealed that one of the officers involved in the shooting is the son of the head of the police union.

    By Yolanda Jones September 27, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Police name 3 officers in Banks shooting

    Memphis police released the names Wednesday, Sept. 26, of the three officers involved in the Sept. 17 South Memphis traffic stop and shooting of Martavious Banks.

    By Yolanda Jones September 26, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Strickland pledges to get to bottom of officer-involved shooting

    Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland addressed the city Friday morning, saying there have been 40 incidents in which the Memphis Police Department investigated and disciplined officers for violating policies surrounding the use of body and vehicle cameras, vowing to get “to the bottom of this” shooting of 25-year-old Martavious Banks.

    By Bill Dries September 21, 2018
  • Public Safety

    Memphis Police: 3 officers did not turn on body cameras during police shooting

    The Memphis Police Department said an officer who critically wounded a 25-year-old man in a shooting in South Memphis Monday night did not record the encounter because he and two other officers failed to turn on their body and in-car cameras during the incident.

    By Yolanda Jones September 19, 2018

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