Just Busting

   A concerted two-day effort to verify the addresses given by 262 of Davidson County’s registered sex offenders revealed 49 possible violations of the sex offender registry law. Sex Crimes detectives will be conducting investigative follow-up and will swear out arrest warrants as necessary.

   On May 16 and 17, teams of officers and detectives from the Sex Crimes Unit, the East & Madison Precincts, the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force and representatives of the Tennessee Board of Probation & Parole fanned out and knocked on the doors of addresses provided by sex offenders during their required registration meetings with law enforcement.

   Similar checks will be conducted in the coming months.

   Undercover detectives assigned to the department’s seven precincts charged 146 persons last week, with mostly drug and prostitution offenses, as the result of investigations in various Nashville neighborhoods.
   South Precinct detectives charged 24 persons as the result of investigations on Margo Lane, Antioch Pike, Hamilton Church Road, Murfreesboro Pike, and Hart Street.  Seized were 92 grams of marijuana, 2.5 grams of cocaine, one gram of heroin and 107 pills.
   Hermitage Precinct detectives charged 29 persons as the result of investigations on Fairfield Avenue, Murfreesboro Pike, Lafayette Street, Matterhorn Drive, Creekwood Drive, Fowler Street, Anderson Road, and Lincoya Drive.  Seized were 9.6 grams of cocaine, 8.47 ounces of marijuana, 67 pills, three weapons, two vehicles and $10,980 cash.
   West Precinct detectives charged 21 persons as the result of investigations on Charlotte Pike, Morrow Road, 8th Avenue South and White Bridge Road.  Seized were five grams of cocaine, 20 grams of marijuana, 28 Soma pills, 16 Xanax pills, 57 Dilaudid pills, three grams of psychedelic mushrooms, one gun and one vehicle.
   North Precinct detectives charged 15 persons as the result of investigations on Russell Street, Dickerson Pike at Trinity Lane, Leawood Drive, the 500 block of Harding Place, and Wren Road.  Seized were 5.2 grams of heroin, 29.3 grams of cocaine, 72 pills, two vehicles and $1,239 cash.
   Madison Precinct detectives charged 20 persons as the result of investigations on Gallatin Pike, Old Hickory Boulevard, Dickerson Pike, and Tucker Road. Seized were two pounds of marijuana, six grams of cocaine, 20 Lortab pills and ten OxyContin pills.
   East Precinct detectives charged 18 persons as the result of investigations on South 5th Street, Main Street, Dickerson Pike, Trinity Lane, Porter Road, Litton Avenue, and Pennock Avenue.  Seized were .7 grams of cocaine, 24 Lortab pills, 10.7 grams of marijuana and $167 cash.
Central Precinct detectives charged 19 persons as the result of investigations on Spring Street and Jefferson Street.  Seized were over two ounces of cocaine, two grams of marijuana, four vehicles and $317 cash.
   Persons suspecting drug activity in their neighborhoods are urged to call the police department’s 244-DOPE hotline. Callers to the hotline can remain anonymous.