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District Attorney’s Office Continues To Fight For Past Homicide Victims It has been almost fourteen years since that terrible day on July 29, 2011, when the precious lives of James Barrett (69) and grandson Alton Barrett (4) were taken while sitting at a red light on...

On October 24, 2023, Trooper Ridge Long made a traffic stop and the driver was identified as Thomas Odell Holcomb. Trooper Long ran the Public VIN (PVIN) on the truck Holcomb was driving and it came back to a 1999 Chevrolet. Trooper Long knew the truck was newer than...

An investigation by into a motel fire last year in Bloomington Springs has resulted in a 25 year prison sentence for a Sparta man.  Jacob Steven Flatt (DOB: 06/10/2001)pleaded guilty to vandalism and received the maximum sentence for the charge. On May 13, 2022,...

On Christmas Eve, December 24th, 2022, Walter Mason was found dead in his cell. A correctional officer was serving breakfast when one of the inmates advised him to check the cell of Walter Mason and James Person. Person was standing in the doorway and simply advised...

On February 12, 2024, correctional officers entered the pod James Franklin Puckett JR. was being housed in. While conducting a security search of Puckett’s cell, Puckett exited his cell with blunt objects and homemade weapons. Puckett and his cell mate then sprinted...

A Wilson County man was found guilty on Friday of recklessly killing a Mt Juliet teen.  Caleb Mershon, 22, was convicted by a Wilson County jury of five men and seven women of recklessly killing Austin Gordon in September of 2022.  Proof at trial established...

November 15, 2024                 A Macon County man has pleaded guilty in the 2023 drunk driving crash that claimed the life of Macon County Sergeant William Cherry.  Devin Slayton entered an open plea to the indicted charge of vehicular homicide in the case, and is...

"Sandra Strickland, 73, enters an open plea to end trial of the death of Ashley Bailey on the Lebanon square in April 2022. Sentencing was scheduled for December 10 and Strickland received the maximum sentence, 12 years to serve. The woman charged in connection with...

Days before her jury trial was set to begin, a Nashville woman has pleaded guilty to all charges relating to the death of Mya Fuller.  Taiyana Tipton appeared in a Wilson County Courtroom today for the purpose to ensuring that all parties were ready to start...

A Wilson County man will spend the rest of this life for sex crimes against three different vicitms. On Friday, May 10, 2024, Judge Brody Kane sentenced 50-year-old Pedro Barrera to 60 years in prison to be served at 100% with no early release eligibility....