He replaces Deputy Chief Joe Oakley, who had been with the department for 36 years. Oakley oversaw the launch and use of the department’s Real-Time Crime Center and its data collection.

The arrest of Evolve Bank & Trust CEO Robert “Bob” Hartheimer is the latest challenge for the embattled Memphis-based bank.

As the Memphis Safe Task Force ramps up its presence, local elected leaders are focusing on a lawsuit challenging the state about sending National Guard troops to the city.

A local man charged in a drug trafficking scheme last year will serve nearly four years in federal prison.

U.S. Marshals arrest suspect in the fatal shooting of a rapper outside the Westin Hotel in Downtown Memphis earlier this year.

In nearly all data points, crime was down in the four weeks before the task force launched. But, similar to the city’s dashboard graphic, the declines have been more precipitous in the roughly three weeks since the surge began.

In his recusal, Judge Andrew Howorth added a severe warning about the implications of pressure tactics on the judicial system, stating this “approximates the manner in which courts operate in authoritarian regimes, such as North Korea and Iran.”

The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals has denied the appeal of Cleotha Abston’s rape conviction last year.

Amid a surge in arrests from the Memphis Task Force, the federal public defender’s office is “straining.” 

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and leaders of other groups seeking to stop the National Guard deployment in Memphis say the city was never offered an option to join their lawsuit.

The administration is “confident” it will win in court. 

U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman dismissed 17 of 36 charges against a local gynecologist, court records show.

U.S. District Judge Mark Norris wrote that he recused himself “because of the apparent bias of others against the Court.”

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and Commissioners Erika Sugarmon and Henri Brooks are among those seeking a preliminary injunction to stop the guard’s deployment.

Local activists said Friday that immigrant arrests are likely higher than the figures circulated by the Memphis Safe Task Force. 

The Shelby County Jail’s population is expanding amid a surge in arrests by the Memphis Safe Task Force. One judge told The Daily Memphian he saw 50 to 70 more cases last week than in a typical week.

As the Deputy Chief of Information Technology, Joe Oakley has overseen the launch and use of the police department’s Real-Time Crime Center camera surveillance systems, as well as the department’s data collection. It was not immediately clear Thursday who would take over his duties. 

A Memphis Police Department sergeant was arrested Tuesday by the Oakland Police Department.

The combination of Whiteside’s sentence and school board member Michele Henley’s defense of her has galvanized a growing movement focused on accountability within DeSoto County’s leadership and education systems.

Since the beginning of the Memphis Safe Task Force, routine traffic stops by state troopers have turned into high-speed pursuits, several which have ended in crashes.

Crime data from the first three quarters of 2025 reveals where the city’s crime rate stood before the federal law enforcement saturation.

Memphians may be intrigued to learn what happened in 1938 in a world where Memphis stood largely united against a National Guard deployment, behind a self-assured leader with a powerful political organization and friends in Washington, D.C.

DeSoto County District Attorney Matthew Barton said his office is challenging the sentence, arguing sexual battery committed by a person in a position of trust is classified as a violent crime and is specifically ineligible for the house arrest program under Mississippi law.

“We are weighing some sort of legal action in order to put a stop to some of the unconstitutional actions that we’ve seen and heard about,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said. 

A former high school coach and youth minister at a DeSoto County church pleaded guilty to sexual battery with a minor, but her sentence was considered too lenient by District Attorney Matthew Barton.