Nashville, Tennessee - Undercover detectives assigned to the department’s eight precincts charged 75 persons this week with mostly drug and prostitution offenses as the result of investigations in various Nashville neighborhoods.
Midtown Hills Precinct detectives charged 5 persons as the result of investigations on Sidco Drive, Harding Place, and Charlotte Avenue. Seized were 4.5 grams of cocaine, 2.5 grams of heroin, and seven grams of MDMA.
South Precinct detectives charged 10 persons as the result of investigations on Lafayette Street, Lincoln Street, Perkins Street, Bell Road, Lutie Drive, Harding Place, and Wallace Road. Detectives seized 2.5 grams of cocaine, six grams of heroin, one gram of methamphetamine, four grams of marijuana, and one Suboxone strip.
Hermitage Precinct detectives charged 17 persons as the result of investigations on Donelson Pike, Lafayette Street, Old Hickory Boulevard, and Bell Road. Detectives seized two grams of heroin, 15 grams of marijuana, 20 pills, and two guns.
West Precinct detectives charged 4 persons as the result of investigations on Cheyenne Boulevard, Joyce Lane, and 40th Avenue North. Detectives seized 274.2 grams of marijuana, 29.1 grams of methamphetamine, 11.2 grams of heroin, three handguns, and $11,536 cash.
North Precinct detectives charged 8 persons as the result of investigations on Brick Church Pike, Trinity Lane, Dr. D.B Todd Boulevard, Whites Creek Pike, Clay Street, Cockrill Street, and 23rd Avenue North. Detectives seized 58 grams of cocaine, 2.3 grams of marijuana, and two grams of methamphetamine.
Madison Precinct detectives charged 11 persons as the result of investigations on Gallatin Pike, Ewing Lane, Brick Church Pike, and Saunders Avenue. Detectives seized 2.5 grams of heroin.
East Precinct detectives charged 8 persons as the result of investigations on Dickerson Pike, Trinity Lane, Gallatin Pike, Seymour Avenue, and Hart Avenue. Detectives seized 37.3 grams of marijuana, 3.5 grams of heroin, 13.3 grams of cocaine, seven grams of methamphetamine, one gun, and $1,651 cash.
Central Precinct detectives charged 12 persons as the result of investigations on Lafayette Street, 2nd Avenue South, 8th Avenue South, Bass Street, and 6th Avenue South. Detectives seized five grams of cocaine, 12 grams of marijuana, one gram of heroin, and $332 cash.
Citizens suspecting drug activity in their neighborhoods are urged to call the police department’s 244-DOPE hotline. Callers to the hotline can remain anonymous.
