Injured inmates were treated at Regional One and returned to 201 Poplar. Jail staff used a chemical agent to quell "several disturbances" at the jail Friday.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An inmate physically assaulted a nurse over the weekend at 201 Poplar, according to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. The Mid-South nurse and mother of two is now speaking out saying she is still traumatized after the assault. She wants to share her story hoping it can prevent another nurse from experiencing […]
Authorities say they have identified a man who was fatally shot by sheriff’s deputies after he sped toward them in a vehicle as the officers were serving a search warrant in a Memphis neighborhood. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the man who died Friday was 30-year-old James Q. Hampton. Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said deputies were serving the high-risk drug warrant when a man who was waiting in a vehicle drove toward a SWAT team at high speed. Bonner says deputies opened fire, killing the driver. No deputies were hurt. Three people were arrested and face drug-related and other charges stemming from the search.