Cookeville Crime

Crime, law and justice, and police blotter near Cookeville, TN or anywhere in the US.

Recent Crime News

• No traffic trouble reported with rally

  7 hrs ago | via Herald-Citizen 

  Bikers in town for this week's Tennessee State H.O.G. Rally ride down Neal Street for this morning's breakfast ride to Standing Stone State Park.

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• Interim UCDD Director Delivers Explosive Resignation

  9 hrs ago | via WTVF Nashville 

  A longtime Upper Cumberland Development District employee has abruptly quit as UCDD's interim director, delivering an explosive resignation letter that blames the agency's board for much of its financial problems.

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  Related Topix: Cookeville, TN, Davidson County, TN

• 'Fan Freedom' Group Requests Ticket Scalping Investi...

  Wednesday | via WTVF Nashville 

  The battle over ticket scalping now has one group calling for an investigation into whether consumers are getting ripped off right here in Music City.

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  Related Topix: Cookeville, TN

• Father saves son, 4, from being struck by truck

  Tuesday May 29 | via WKRN 

  A 25-year-old man is being hailed a hero by family members after he saved his four-year-old son and others from being struck by a truck on Sunday night.

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  Related Topix: Cookeville, TN, Vanderbilt University, Rutherford County, TN

• Two Pedestrians Hit By Car In Cookeville

  Tuesday May 29 | via WTVF Nashville 

  COOKEVILLE, Tenn.- Two adults were seriously injured after being hit by a car while walking along a Cookeville Road with two friends and their children.

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  Related Topix: Cookeville, TN, Westmoreland, TN, Nashville, TN

• Grandparents Struggle To Keep Their Children's Children

  Monday May 28 | via WTVF Nashville 

  NASHVILLE, Tenn.- A new study has revealed a trend in Tennessee that more and more grandparents are raising their children's children and struggling to make ends meet. 4 comments

  Related Topix: Tennessee Government, Tennessee, Nashville, TN, Kids, Family, Cookeville, TN

• Pedestrians struck by truck

  Monday May 28 | via Herald-Citizen 

  Two pedestrians were injured when they were hit by a pickup truck on Buffalo Valley Road on Sunday night, police said.

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  Related Topix: Westmoreland, TN, Cookeville, TN

• CPD motorcycle unit hones riding skills, garners rec...

  Sunday May 27 | via Herald-Citizen 

  Six of the eight Cookeville Police officers who staff the motorcycle unit are, from left, Anthony Reep, Sgt.

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• Smithville woman arrested for passing counterfeit bills

  Friday May 25 | via Herald-Citizen 

  A Smithville woman who spent $140 at a Cookeville bar Saturday night got arrested after the bar discovered she paid with fake money.

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  Related Topix: Smithville, TN, Cookeville, TN

• Thief arrested after car chase

  Friday May 25 | via Herald-Citizen 

  A Baxter man was arrested last week for allegedly stealing metal gates from a farm and selling them to a scrap metal business.

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  Related Topix: Baxter, TN, Putnam County, TN, Cookeville, TN

• Shoplifter caught with purse full of clothes

  Tuesday May 22 | via Herald-Citizen 

  A woman was arrested at a Cookeville store last week for allegedly stuffing $628 worth of clothing into a purse and leaving the store without paying.

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  Related Topix: Cookeville, TN, Kohls, Retail, KSS Retail, Putnam County, TN

• Thieves nearly destroy vending machine

  Tuesday May 22 | via Herald-Citizen 

  Thieves pried open a Coca Cola vending machine last week to steal money and almost destroyed the machine in the process, police said.

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• Smithville woman arrested for passing counterfeit bills

  Monday May 21 | via Herald-Citizen 

  A Smithville woman who spent $140 at a Cookeville bar Saturday night got arrested after the bar discovered she paid with fake money.

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  Related Topix: Smithville, TN, Cookeville, TN

• Stolen cribs from hotel leads to arrest of Monterey woman

  Monday May 21 | via Herald-Citizen 

  A Monterey woman was arrested Friday for allegedly stealing two baby cribs from a Cookeville motel. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Monterey, TN, Cookeville, TN, Putnam County, TN

• Shoplifter caught with purse full of clothes

  Monday May 21 | via Herald-Citizen 

  A woman was arrested at a Cookeville store last week for allegedly stuffing $628 worth of clothing into a purse and leaving the store without paying.

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  Related Topix: Cookeville, TN, Kohls, Retail, KSS Retail, Putnam County, TN

• Police Respond To Home Invasion In Hermitage

  Monday May 21 | via WTVF Nashville 

  Police have responded to a home invasion in Hermitage on Monday morning. It happened just after 5:15 a.m. on Spring Farm Lane.

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  Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Nashville, TN, Cookeville, TN

• Police Respond To Possible Home Invasion In Hermitage

  Monday May 21 | via WTVF Nashville 

  On Monday, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is expected to fully endorse same-sex marriage, as well as the President's decision to do so.

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  Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Nashville, TN, Cookeville, TN

• Man's throat cut in bar fight

  Sunday May 20 | via Herald-Citizen 

  One man's throat was cut in a fight at a Cookeville bar last night, and another man is in jail charged with attempted murder.

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  Related Topix: Cookeville, TN, Chattanooga, TN

• Cyclists take ride of silence

  Saturday May 19 | via Herald-Citizen 

  Drivers might have noticed police escorting a long line of bicycles around Cookeville earlier this week.

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• Teenager robbed by acquaintance

  Friday May 18 | via Herald-Citizen 

  A Gainesboro teenager told police she was robbed in a store parking lot here Thursday afternoon, and the robber was a woman she knows.

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