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A Criminal Court jury has convicted a Memphis man of robbing a 40-year-old new acquaintance in 2016 and beating him on the head repeatedly with a claw hammer, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

The Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference has appointed District Attorney General Glenn Funk of Nashville to handle the case of State of Tennessee v. Gregory Livingston.

A long-term investigation by the Multi-Agency Gang Unit has led to the drug-trafficking conspiracy indictments of 40 people and the closures of three North Memphis residences used as centers for distribution of cocaine and other illegal narcotics, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A duplex in Hickory Hill was closed as a public nuisance Tuesday because of long-term criminal activity, including drug trafficking, gang violence, and other dangerous conditions, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man who was driving at a high rate of speed on I-40 last summer when he crashed into the concrete median has been indicted in the death of a passenger who was partially ejected in the crash, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Frayser woman has been indicted in the shooting death earlier this year of her estranged husband’s girlfriend with whom he had been living, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

The live-in boyfriend of a Westwood woman pled guilty Monday to attempting to sexually molest one of her young daughters and stabbing another in incidents that occurred more than a year apart, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man on the state Sex Offender Registry was convicted Friday of the rape of a University of Memphis freshman student he was trying to recruit for his online prostitution business, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two men have been on first-degree murder charges in the killing of a 54-year-old man during a robbery attempt last December outside of a motel in northeast Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 22-year-old man was indicted Thursday on first-degree murder charges stemming from the shooting death in February of a motorist whose car he was trying to steal in the Windyke area of southeast Shelby County, said Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

When Iris Stewart joined the District Attorney’s Office in November of 1994, there were 97 employees and the daily dockets for all 10 Criminal Court divisions were placed in one small closet.

An Alabama man whose DNA linked him to the 1998 rape of a Parkway Village woman was convicted Wednesday by a Criminal Court jury, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 64-year-old man was convicted as charged Tuesday of raping the 12-year-old daughter of a friend in a rooming house they shared in South Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two men who intervened with gunfire in a neighborhood argument last year have been indicted on first-degree murder in the death of one of the neighbors, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A juvenile defendant has been indicted in a drive-by shooting last summer in which a Hickory Hill man was killed, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 21-year-old man was convicted Friday in a 2018 case in which two cousins were shot, one of them fatally, while trailing suspected car thieves in southeast Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An intoxicated, speeding motorist who struck and killed Memphis Police Lt. Myron Fair two years ago pled guilty Friday to aggravated vehicular homicide and 13 other criminal counts, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A bakery employee has been convicted of attempting to kill his supervisor in a workplace shooting in 2019 in a Whitehaven distribution center off of Brooks Road, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 53-year-old woman was indicted Tuesday on reckless vehicular homicide felony charges related to a 2019 crash in which a motorcyclist was killed, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 26-year-old man has been indicted on first-degree murder and other felony counts related to the death of an elderly man whose decomposed body was found last summer in his Berclair-area home, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.