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The Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference is launching its newest statewide awareness effort: “Fentanyl: The Deadliest High.”

A former Memphis police sergeant has been indicted on three felony counts of official misconduct stemming from acts allegedly related to his employment in 2018, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis police officer acted within the law when he shot a man who was walking in the middle of James Road in Raleigh and pointing a gun at passing motorists and police, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Shelby County Asst. Dist. Attys. Kevin McAlpin and Ryan Thompson have completed their 11-month overseas tours of duty in the Middle East as members of the Tennessee Army National Guard stationed in Kuwait.

To reduce the volume of people entering 201 Poplar during the pandemic, Judge Bill Anderson will reset all out-of-custody cases to future dates starting August 31, 2020.

A Whitehaven man was indicted Wednesday on murder charges related to the shooting deaths of two people during an argument at a Super Bowl party last year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A former Shelby County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been indicted on criminal charges stemming from an encounter with a passenger in a vehicle he stopped for speeding last December, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 23-year-old man accused of stabbing his girlfriend and leaving her body on a Jackson Avenue sidewalk in January has been indicted on first-degree murder charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 62-year-old truck driver has been indicted on multiple criminal charges stemming from a crash last November that killed two highway workers and injured two others, including a state trooper, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Three people have been indicted on reckless homicide charges related to the death of a 59-year-old woman who was mauled by their four dogs in April, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

To reduce the volume of people entering 201 Poplar during the pandemic, Judge Gerald Skahan will reset all out-of-custody cases to future dates.

Two men have been indicted on first-degree murder and dozens of other criminal charges in connection with the April shooting death of a 6-year-old boy in Frayser, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

“Newly discovered” blood-stained bedding that defense attorneys claim could prove the innocence of death-row inmate Pervis Payne with DNA testing is actually from a separate murder case that occurred nine years after his 1988 conviction for the brutal stabbings of a Millington mother and her two young children, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Local leaders will participate in a Red Sand Project ceremony at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at 1290 Lamar at Cleveland to commemorate World Day Against Trafficking in Persons.

Longtime police detective and District Attorney’s Office criminal investigator W.D. Merritt passed away Sunday, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich. He was 56.

Four men were indicted Thursday on multiple felony counts in a case involving the sexual abuse of two young children and a baby that they performed and recorded on cellphone videos, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 37-year-old man was indicted Tuesday in a December shooting at a convenience store in the Hickory Hill area in which another man was killed and his car was stolen, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Federal marshals acted within the law in the shooting death last year of an armed Memphis man they were trying to arrest on felony assault warrants, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man on parole for a 1994 murder was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the abduction and rape of a young woman in 2015, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A southeast Shelby County man has been indicted in the stabbing deaths of his former girlfriend and their 5-month-old son who were found in their burning house last year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.