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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A truck driver who came to Memphis to recover a tractor-trailer stolen from the Chicago area stayed inside the big rig for nearly 34 hours to prevent A1’s Towing and Hauling from taking it. The owner of MHT Group Inc. said his driver gassed up at the Shelby Express on East Shelby […]
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police are looking for a man they say stole a shopping cart full of items from an East Memphis Kroger and threatened a Kroger employee with a gun in the parking lot. According to the police report, the suspect entered the store in the 500 block of Mendenhall Road at 7:30 in […]
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police are looking for two shoplifters who made off with $4,800 worth of sugar and baby food from a Walmart on Austin Peay Highway in Raleigh over the weekend. Investigators posted pictures of the suspects and their vehicle on Facebook. Most people responding to the post were wondering what all the sugar […]
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police are looking for three people caught on camera robbing four businesses around Memphis Wednesday night. Investigators said the robbers, who were wearing hoodies and masks, held up an American Deli in the 3200 block of Jackson, an American Deli in the 3500 block of South Mendenhall, and then moved on to […]
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police say a man forced a 16-year-old into prostitution and was selling her for sex on a known sex trade website. Brandon Deshun Jones, 35, was booked in the Shelby County Jail Thursday on charges of trafficking for a commercial sex act, domestic assault, and resisting official detention. Investigators said in late […]
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The owner of a Birmingham, Alabama, trucking company says he plans to sue A1’s Hauling and Towing after two of his big rigs were illegally towed by A1’s Towing and Trucking, costing him over $17,000. Fenn Church of Church Transportation said he came to Memphis Monday for a hearing involving A1’s and […]
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis mom says a group of armed carjackers threatened to kill her 3-year-old daughter if she didn’t give up her Jaguar Friday night. Donnii’ Watkins said she had just pulled into a parking spot at her sister’s apartment complex off Knight Arnold in Hickory Hill when she was ambushed by several […]
3 months ago
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police say a drug team responding to a drug complaint at a strip mall in Fox Meadows found a teen with an illegal device used to turn a handgun into a fully automatic weapon. MPD said Kenyatta Walker, 18, was arrested late Thursday night in the 3100 block of Mendenhall after detectives […]
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man wanted in connection to an execution-style shooting in Whitehaven over the summer was arrested Monday morning after police responded to a business burglary in the Binghampton area. Calvin Mitchell, 32, who had an outstanding warrant for first-degree murder, was taken into custody inside a fenced-in area outside a warehouse on […]
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A 16-year-old has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to a deadly carjacking in Whitehaven on Easter Sunday, police say. Palmer Chandler Davis was booked into the Shelby County Jail Tuesday, but no other details have been released about his arrest. On April 9, Quinton Donald, 35, was shot and killed […]
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police said three men in a gray sedan were arrested after they were caught prowling inside a parking garage on Union Avenue early Friday morning. Emmanuel Macdonal, 22, German Camez Valencia, 20, and Quincy Richard, 21, were all taken into custody on the fourth floor of the Parking Can Be Fun garage. […]
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