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An Illinois woman who was stopped on I-40 for a traffic violation Thursday is facing drug-trafficking charges after officers found cocaine hidden in her rental car.

A Madison County traffic stop led West Tennessee Drug Task Force Agents to serve a search warrant on a home in Humboldt early Sunday morning where they found assorted illegal drugs, including 30 pounds of methamphetamine.

A 27-year-old Memphis man was indicted on criminal charges Thursday stemming from a two-car crash last year in North Memphis in which the driver of the other vehicle was killed, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

The mother of four young children who she stabbed to death in 2016 in their southeast Shelby County apartment was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Mississippi man has pled guilty to a series of unrelated violent crimes, including striking a fellow prisoner with a brick, setting fire to the jail on two occasions, and killing an acquaintance in 2016 by stabbing him more than two dozen times, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis woman convicted in November of illegally registering to vote in 2019 was sentenced to six years and one day in prison Monday, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich has asked the State Attorney General’s Office to appeal a judge’s ruling Monday that convicted double-murderer Pervis Payne’s vacated death sentences issued in 1988 should be served as concurrent life sentences.

A 20-year-old man has been indicted in the death of an estranged friend who identified him as the shooter as the victim was dying outside his Cordova apartment last year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A young man and woman have been indicted in a drive-by shooting last Fourth of July in North Memphis in which a 7-year-old boy was killed and two women were critically injured, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 29-year-old man has been indicted in a drive-by shooting last year in North Memphis in which two men in a parked car were killed by multiple gunshots, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An employee at a South Memphis discount store has been indicted on murder charges after following a suspected shoplifter out of the store last summer and shooting him in the parking lot, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A woman who returned to a motel to confront another woman over an earlier dispute pled guilty this week to second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An Arizona woman who was stopped on I-40 on a traffic violation earlier this week is facing drug-trafficking charges after officers found 20 pounds of fentanyl hidden in two fire extinguishers inside her vehicle, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis driver was indicted Tuesday on criminal charges including vehicular homicide and drunken driving related to a two-vehicle crash in East Memphis that killed one person and injured two others, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man has pled guilty in a shooting at a Whitehaven motel in which he killed a woman bystander and wounded a man who had tried to intervene in an argument, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man was indicted Thursday in the shooting death of a Horn Lake man last year in a Whitehaven motel, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A man who has been preying on women for more than a decade was sentenced to 21 years in prison Thursday for luring a University of Memphis freshman from her dorm and raping her at a motel, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man was indicted Thursday on several felony counts, including the shooting death of an acquaintance and the critical wounding of a woman who was hit in the face by a stray bullet while in her kitchen baking a birthday cake, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two Memphis men – Justin Johnson and Cornelius Smith - indicted in the November shooting death of local rapper Young Dolph are scheduled to be arraigned today in Criminal Court, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A man who attacked his former girlfriend and a male friend at her home and then returned five hours later to kill them both has been indicted on first-degree murder charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.