Original location is Peach Avenue and Leath Street, but crime scene stretches for blocks. Author: Istvan Bardos, Caitlin McCarthy Published: 4:33 PM CDT May 7, 2021 Updated: 10:10 PM CDT May 7, 2021
MEMPHIS, Tenn. A Memphis Police Officer and an ATF agent are recovering after being shot in north Memphis Friday afternoon. Memphis Police said violent crime unit officers were working on a carjacking that involved a crash when, at Peach and Leath, several suspects got out of a red sedan and fired multiple shots at two officers, and then took off.
MPD said bullet fragments were found in the officer s headrest making it a close call. Both officer and agent are expected to fully recover. According to MPD, neither officer fired shots back. Officers arrested three suspects, but one is still on the run.
Nighthawking gang stole priceless Bronze Age artefacts from castle for the craic
The gang crept into Beeston Castle, Cheshire, and Roche Abbey in Yorkshire, before digging up ancient axes and coins from the ground
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Clockwise: John Lorne, Gary Flanagan, Daniel Lloyd, Francis Ward, and Curtis Barlow. (Image: Cheshire Police)
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MPD: 2 law enforcement officers shot near Medical District
ATF responding to possible shots fired By WMC Action News 5 Staff | May 7, 2021 at 4:40 PM CDT - Updated May 8 at 10:08 AM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Memphis Police Department is investigating a shooting involving two law enforcement officers Friday afternoon.
Memphis police say just after 2:30 p.m. the Violent Crimes Unit was in the area near Alabama and Mosby searching for a carjacked vehicle involved in a crash.
While conducting the search near Leath Street and Peach Avenue, a Memphis police officer and an ATF agent were struck by gunfire. MPD says the suspects fled the scene in a red sedan.
Five men have been convicted for stealing historical artefacts from Beeston Castle. FIVE men have been fined and banned from metal detecting after committing heritage crimes at Cheshire s Beeston Castle and Roche Abbey in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. All five men, from Tameside, appeared at Chester Magistrates Court for sentencing on Friday, May 7. They had each previously pleaded guilty to removing, without written consent, objects of archaeological/historical interest found by a metal detector in a protected place. They all appeared before District Judge Nicholas Sanders.
Curtis Barlow Curtis Barlow, 32, of The Quadrant, Droylsden, admitted taking coins and metal artefacts from Roche Abbey between December 13-15, 2019.