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Tennessee just started distributing fentanyl test strips, and even the top cop likes the early results

Blake Farmer

August 31, 2022

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The state’s agency overseeing substance abuse is finding the drug-checking kits are more effective than expected.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: addiction, David Rausch, drug overdose, fentanyl, mental health, TBI

Fire at Sumner County Courthouse construction site douses hopes of 2023 opening

Blaise Gainey

August 8, 2022

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The roof of the Sumner County Courthouse caught fire Sunday night. The Gallatin Fire Department and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation are on the scene investigating how it started.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Fire, Gallatin, Sumner County, TBI, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation

TBI report: Most people killed by law enforcement in Tennessee in 2021 were armed

Samantha Max

March 31, 2022

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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s latest reporting on law enforcement-related deaths reveals that most people killed by police were armed.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 112th Tennessee General Assembly, Metro Nashville Police Department, officer involved shooting, TBI

‘He was crying out for help’: Landon Eastep’s widow questions law enforcement after 9 officers shot her husband on the side of a Nashville interstate

Samantha Max

January 28, 2022

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Once again, investigations are underway, body camera footage is circulating, loved ones are grieving and a city is left to wonder: Why have so many recent encounters with police turned violent?

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: davidson county district attorney, Metro Nashville Police Department, Mt. Juliet, officer involved shooting, TBI, Tennessee Highway Patrol

TBI investigating late afternoon shooting on I-65

Marianna BacallaoandRachel Iacovone

January 27, 2022

Sign outside the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation headquarters

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says agents are at the scene of a shooting on I-65 after Nashville police, Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers and an off-duty Mt. Juliet officer shot and killed a 37-year-old man while, they say, they were responding to reports of a person with a box cutter.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro Nashville Police Department, Metro Police, MNPD, Nashville police, officer involved shooting, police, shooting, shootings, TBI, Tennessee Highway Patrol

TBI investigations into shootings by Tennessee law enforcement are on the rise

Samantha Max

January 13, 2022

Sign outside the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation headquarters

State agents have launched their first investigation of the new year into a shooting by law enforcement.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro Nashville Police Department, officer involved shooting, TBI

Nashville Prosecutor Won’t Press Charges Against Police Captain Accused Of Groping. Here’s Why.

Samantha Max

September 17, 2021

A sign at Metro Nashville Police Headquarters

A former captain at the Metro Nashville Police Department will not face criminal charges for an alleged assault against a subordinate in 2016.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro Nashville Police Department, sexual assault, sexual harassment, TBI

TBI Is Investigating A Shooting By A Police Officer On Brick Church Pike

Emily SinerandSamantha Max

January 27, 2021

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Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation are looking into a shooting by a police officer Wednesday afternoon. Metro Nashville Police confirmed the incident along Brick Church Pike, which they say happened in the parking lot of an Exxon gas station at the intersection with Trinity Lane.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: community oversight board, Metro Nashville Police Department, officer involved shooting, TBI

The Latest: Nashville Police Launch Internal Investigation Into Handling Of Christmas Day Bombing

Samantha MaxandAmbriehl Crutchfield

January 4, 2021

Nashville Police Chief John Drake
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Nashville’s police chief has repeatedly said the department responded to a 2019 report about Anthony Warner as thoroughly as it could at the time, and that it acknowledged the report quickly as it could after the Christmas Day bombing. But the police department is now creating an “after-action report” to determine whether it made mistakes.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Delishia Porterfield, John Drake, Nashville Christmas blast, TBI

Nashville Oversight Group Considering Its Own Investigation Into February In-Custody Death

Samantha Max

May 14, 2020

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Nashville’s Community Oversight Board wants to investigate the death of a man who was arrested in February. The officers who arrested Gabriel Hines have been accused of using physical force. The Metro Nashville Police Department says an internal investigation cleared them of wrongdoing. But the city’s new police oversight group still has questions.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: community oversight board, davidson county district attorney, Davidson County Sheriff's Office, Glenn Funk, Metro Nashville Police Department, TBI

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