Amid a nationwide crackdown on illegal voting, federal prosecutors in Tennessee on Friday reported six foreign nationals living in the Volunteer State who are accused of illegally voting in United States elections.
In the Middle District of Tennessee, U.S. Attorney Braden Boucek revealed charges against three foreign nationals who allegedly voted in 2024.
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The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), the pro-illegal alien nonprofit that on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS) in Davidson County Chancery Court over the new driver’s license law passed in Tennessee last year, earlier this year was allocated $735,000 in the budget approved by the Metro nashville Council in June.
In their Friday complaint, TIRRC challenged a portion of one of Tennessee’s new immigration laws that requires lawful immigrants to provide a qualifying visa, immigration documentation, or resident card, in order to receive a special license authorizing them to drive in the Volunteer State.
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The U.S. Marshals Service on Wednesday announced the arrest of Fernando Gonzalez Ramirez, a 32-year-old Panamanian citizen who is wanted in Franklin, Tennessee, where the Marshals said “he is alleged to have sexually assaulted multiple boys while helping run a youth baseball program” from 2023 to 2024.
According to the press release, federal law enforcement tracked Gonzalez Ramirez to Mexico, Japan, and Panama before the Marshals arrested him in the Dominican Republic “within hours” after their foreign field office received a tip about his location.
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Despite his campaign spending $438 on software from Anthropic, which has contracted to use the SpaceXSI Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, independent Tennessee gubernatorial candidate David Hatley previously said data centers for artificial intelligence (AI), also referred to as super intelligence (SI) by the Trump administration, “terrify” him when asked specifically about the Elon Musk-owned facility.
Anthropic, which develops the Claude chatbot, announced an agreement with Musk’s SpaceXSI on May 6, with the deal providing Anthropic access to more than 300 megawatts of computing capacity at Colossus. The company said the additional computing power would benefit subscribers to its Claude Pro and Claude Max products.
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A Memphis Police Department (MPD) report obtained by The Tennessee Star reveals that the mother of State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), the Democratic nominee for Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District, was accused of slapping an election worker during a dispute at a Memphis polling location on Wednesday.
The Daily Memphian first reported that Owens Pearson was accused of causing a “disturbance,” while The Mighty 990 shared the news in a post to social media, including redacted information from the MPD report obtained by The Star.
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday announced 24 indictments as the result of a Homeland Security Task Force investigation, which prosecutors say determined a Sinaloa Cartel-affiliated drug trafficking operation was being directed by two men serving time inside Tennessee prisons. Their conspiracy allegedly included about 500 kilograms of methamphetamine, 60 kilograms of cocaine, and $375,000 in cash.
According to the DOJ press release, all 24 defendants are charged with the same 33-count indictment, which also accuses them of distributing or possessing fentanyl, heroin, and marijuana, while nine of the defendants face additional firearm and drug trafficking defendants.
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The Tennessee Star has obtained audio of a 911 call placed on February 16, 2020, in which a woman identifying herself as the wife of Tennessee independent gubernatorial candidate David Hatley reported that he told her he had taken pills in an attempt to end his life. Hatley did not deny being the subject of the 911 call when reached by The Star.
The woman, whose name matches public records about Hatley’s second wife, claimed that she left their child at Hatley’s home that morning, but after leaving church, was contacted by Hatley, who she said informed her that he decided to commit suicide.
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An investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) – Memphis led to a guilty plea by a Guatemalan national who admitted to conspiring to smuggle 450 kilograms of cocaine, or about 992 pounds, the DEA and Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday.
According to court documents cited by the DOJ, Donelfert Monterroso Vasquez coordinated “multi-hundred-kilogram” shipments of cocaine through Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico, in order to “generate the highest profit” by selling the illicit substance in the United States.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of Salin Dahel Ramos Alvarez to The Tennessee Star, describing Ramos Alvarez as a known or suspected member of Tren de Aragua.
A spokesman for ICE told The Star that Ramos Alvarez was arrested last Thursday as part of a “targeted enforcement operation” in Nashville, when the spokesman said Ramoz Alvarez told officers “he was not a Lyft driver but had been paid by an acquaintance to drive them to the airport.”
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After previous reporting indicated she would block his confirmation, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has reportedly confirmed her support for Sam Adkisson, whom President Donald Trump announced he would nominate to serve as a district court judge in the Eastern District of Tennessee in August.
Bloomberg Law first reported last week that Blackburn would support Adkisson, a Vanderbilt University graduate and White House attorney, citing a White House official who confirmed the senator returned a favorable blue slip.
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Metro Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell has proposed directing surplus tourism-related tax revenues controlled by the Joint Capital Tourism Board (JCTB) toward public safety projects, even as downtown businesses facing skyrocketing property tax bills seek financial assistance from the same funds.
The mayor’s comments were first reported by WPLN, which said the mayor “hopes to steer funding in other directions.”
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A Pentagon spokesperson on Monday denied reporting that claims U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) may appoint Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to the Senate if she is elected Tennessee’s next governor, dismissing the report as “Beltway gossip by anonymous sources.”
Responding to a Sunday news roundup by Puck, which reported “chatter on the Hill that Hegseth has been angling for” Blackburn’s seat, The Independent reported on Monday that Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Cortes denied Hegseth was participating in such an effort.
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State Senator Heidi Campbell (D-Nashville) called on Tennessee officials to address complaints from Davidson County voters who claim electronic voting machines are incorrectly selecting U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and only reflecting their choice for the Democratic Party candidate after multiple attempts.
“Obviously, this keeps coming up and it needs to be addressed after this election, because it’s not acceptable that people are having these problems,” said Campbell on Friday, according to The Tennessee Lookout.
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The U.S. Marshals Service announced on Thursday that the Memphis Safe Task Force (MSTF) apprehended Anthony Green, who was convicted of first-degree murder in September 2025, but nonetheless released by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO).
Green was first indicted in March 2021 for the murder of Octavious Atkins, who was struck multiple times after Green shot into his vehicle in June 2020. According to the Marshals, he was convicted on September 24, 2025, but “erroneously released” the same day. Action News 5 reported last year that that the SCSO acknowledged Green was released as a the result of a “miscommunication,” and pledged to “reinforce training, improve oversight, and ensure strict compliance with all courtroom and bail-related procedures.”
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Metro Nashville selectively cited portions of a February ruling by the Tennessee Court of Appeals in a response filed Monday in the Covenant School killer public records lawsuit brought by The Tennessee Star, through its parent company Star News Digital Media, Inc. (SNDM), and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy, to justify its continued refusal to provide copies of the killer’s writings.
The lawsuit by Leahy and SNDM was originally filed against Metro Nashville in May 2023 in order to compel the release of the writings left by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who killed six at the Covenant School on March 27, 2023. Davidson County Chancellor I’Ashea L. Myles ruled against Leahy, SNDM, and other plaintiffs suing Metro on July 4, 2024.
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A lawsuit was filed against Tennessee on Monday in Davidson County Chancery Court by Nashville CARES, a nonprofit AIDS clinic challenging new guidance issued by the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) in response to a new law expanding citizenship and immigration-status verification requirements for public benefits.
Nashville CARES argues in its lawsuit that TDH guidance is preempted by the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, a welfare reform law that generally prohibits illegal aliens from receiving certain taxpayer-funded benefits, but makes exceptions for the testing and treatment of communicable diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had reached a settlement over alleged Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) fraud, marking the third settlement related to the pandemic-era loan program to be announced by prosecutors in East Tennessee since September 30.
With Tennessee offices located in Maryville, Spralding International, Inc. is the latest company named by the DOJ, which reported on Wednesday that the company agreed to pay more than $1.8 million in order to resolve claims it violated the False Claims Act, specifically by “applying for, receiving, and obtaining forgiveness,” for a PPP loan despite not being eligible.
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Wednesday said that Jerri Green, her opponent in the Tennessee gubernatorial race, “would put illegal aliens over your family” after the Democrat and member of the Memphis City Council voted in favor of a resolution calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the National Guard to be removed from the Memphis Safe Task Force (MSTF).
“This is a contrast election: I fought for the Memphis Safe Task Force, and just last night my radical liberal socialist opponent voted for a resolution to remove ICE and the National Guard from taking part in the Memphis Safe Task Force,” said Blackburn in a statement obtained by The Tennessee Star.
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The Memphis City Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance establishing new regulations for data centers used for artificial intelligence (AI), now renamed super intelligence (SI) by the Trump administration, in a development characterized as a loss by State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis).
Passed in a 7-5 vote, the ordinance establishes a 135-day pause on accepting, processing, hearing, or approving applications and permits for new data center construction, though the pause can end early if permanent regulations are adopted.
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Shelby County Chancellor Joe Day L. Jenkins reportedly blocked the Tennessee takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS) on Monday with a bench order issued just days after U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw dissolved his order that had blocked the state-appointed Education Oversight Board from meeting until earlier this month.
Jenkins reportedly made the decision minutes before the board’s second October meeting was scheduled, Chalkbeat reported, noting that the Shelby County plaintiffs argued the MSCS school district did not meet the law’s qualifications for a takeover and that the district would be irreparably harmed by allowing it to proceed.
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Polling released for Tennessee’s gubernatorial race on Monday found U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) holding an 11.5-point lead over the Democratic nominee, Jerri Green, while independent candidate David Hatley reached double digits.
The Spry Research survey showed that Blackburn has the support of 43.5 percent of the electorate, followed by Green at 32 percent. Hatley trails both major party candidates at 11.9 percent, while an additional 1.4 percent of respondents told pollsters they support former Lipscomb University professor Lauren Pinkston in her independent bid.
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The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday granted a request by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to vacate a lower court decision that threatened construction of a $2.5 billion natural gas power plant in August, determining the publicly owned utility was likely to prevail in its appeal.
Proposed in 2024 to replace the TVA’s coal plant in Kingston, U.S. District Judge Curtis Collier, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton, ruled in August that TVA failed to consider a legally sufficient number of alternatives, and determined TVA improperly committed to natural gas by agreeing to build a pipeline for the new facility.
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With more than 13,500 arrests reported since it deployed last year, U.S. Attorney Todd Blanche said the Memphis Safe Task Force (MSTF) would remain in the city, calling it an investment by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and other federal agencies that compose the task force.
Blanche made the comments at a Friday roundtable event held by the DOJ to mark the one-year anniversary of the task force, which President Donald Trump authorized in September 2025 and which was fully deployed by October 2025.
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State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), the Democrats’ nominee for Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District, on Thursday announced that he filed a lawsuit against the City of Memphis after he was prohibited from attending two Memphis City Council meetings following the protest that caused its October 6 meeting to be ended prematurely amid protests.
Justin Pearson announced the lawsuit in a post to social media, revealing his co-plaintiffs include his mother, Dr. Kimberly Owens-Pearson, as well as his brother KeShaun Pearson. Justin Pearson previously launched the Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP) activist group, which is now led by KeShaun Pearson.
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Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett on Thursday confirmed a “suspicious package” addressed to the Division of Elections Office was “intercepted,” adding Tennessee to the list of at least seven states where officials have reported similar incidents.
“We can confirm that a suspicious package addressed to the State Division of Elections Office was intercepted,” Hargett said in a social media post he said he published in response to inquiries from both Tennessee and national media outlets.
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A memoir released earlier this year by Tennessee independent gubernatorial candidate David Hatley reveals his federal fraud conviction, which stemmed from a scheme in which he wrote checks to himself using an old checkbook he said he found in a condominium.
While revealing the federal crime, Hatley’s book does not disclose a second conviction he received that same year after pleading guilty to misdemeanor petit larceny in a Virginia case that began with felony indictments, according to court records obtained by The Tennessee Star.
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Less than a month after an injunction freezing Tennessee’s ability to regulate sports-event contracts on prediction markets was dissolved by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, a new lawsuit by another prediction market company was filed against the Volunteer State on Tuesday.
The lawsuit was filed by Underdog Exchange DCM, Inc. and UDM, LLC, which operate the prediction market business of Underdog Sports Holdings, Inc., a company that British financial services firm IG Group agreed to acquire for up to $1.3 billion in July.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee on Wednesday reported that three tax fraudsters had entered guilty pleas in cases involving a total of $37 million. The three cases reported in West Tennessee are part of over $490 million in tax fraud discovered across the country through the crackdown launched in April by President Donald Trump and led by Vice President JD Vance.
All three of the West Tennessee cases profiled by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) occurred in Memphis. The latest guilty plea came in the case against Lynette Hogue, a 45-year-old Memphis woman, who the DOJ said admitted her guilt on Tuesday to preparing false and fraudulent income tax returns ad failing to file her own tax returns.
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The Educational Oversight Board appointed to take control over Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS) told U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw on Wednesday that its chairman will testify that the board is “ready, willing, and able” to begin its duties under the Public School Accountability Act, Tennessee’s new law that allows the state to appoint an oversight board to take over school districts under specific conditions.
U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, previously issued an order on July 1 that instructed Tennessee to maintain the status quo from prior to the passage of the law, but during a hearing earlier this month reportedly said he never intended his order to prevent the board from meeting, and signaled that he would dissolve the order as soon as the board confirmed it was ready to meet.
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an independent bureau within the U.S. Treasury Department, on Wednesday released a 47-page report on “debanking activities” by nine of the country’s largest banks, revealing each of them established policies between 2020 and 2025 that resulted in Americans losing or being denied access to financial services “because of their political or religious beliefs or lawful business activities.”
The report states that banks began reconsidering their political debanking policies after states, including Tennessee, Florida, and Idaho, enacted “fair access” laws that prohibit financial institutions from debanking customers based on their political or religious beliefs.
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The Trump administration ended the Biden-era Welcome Corps refugee program months before one of its proponents, the Niskanen Center, published a report identifying seven Tennessee counties as potential destinations for new immigrants.
Niskanen, a pro-immigration think tank that has received funding from the Open Society Foundations, in March 2022 joined the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), Amnesty International USA, and the Community Sponsorship Hub in policy recommendations submitted to the U.S. State Department in response to a February 2021 executive order produced by President Joe Biden, which directed federal agencies to expand refugee resettlement.
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A panel of federal judges last week dismissed the lawsuit brought by the Tennessee State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), who challenged Tennessee’s recently-redrawn Congressional maps based on claims that Republicans in the Tennessee General Assembly exploited a rushed process to conceal their alleged use of racial census data in order to diminish the weight of black voters in Memphis.
The three judges assigned to the case noted in their dismissal order, which was made publicly available on Monday, that the plaintiffs “alleged that the legislature engaged in a racist conspiracy and public coverup to intentionally dilute the Black vote in Tennessee.”
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Officials serving under Governor Bill Lee are reportedly in disagreement about the fate of Christa Pike, who was convicted 30 years ago for murdering Colleen Slemmer during a prolonged attack in 1995.
Lee paused all executions scheduled for the remainder of 2026 after Pike survived two doses of lethal injection administered under the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) last month.
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Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell approved the Metro Council’s legislation to implement the “legacy business” grants described earlier this year, in response to business owners warning that soaring property taxes were undermining their ability to succeed financially in the city.
After property taxes drew headlines when Acme Feed & Seed warned that a 356 percent property tax hike on its leased property would raise its property tax bill from $129,000 to about $589,000, the O’Connell administration announced a “legacy business” program the mayor said would support Nashville business owners.
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State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis) was banned from attending two upcoming Memphis City Council meetings. According to a letter Memphis City Council Chairwoman Jana Swearengen-Washington sent to Pearson, which The Tennessee Star obtained Friday, Pearson will be prohibited from attending the October 20 and November 10 meetings.
Citing the Memphis City Council rules posted online, the letter stated to Pearson, “any use of abusive, profane language, personal remarks to any member of the Council or the public, or any disorderly conduct that disrupts the meeting will not be tolerated,” and declared that it serves Pearson with “written notice that such behavior is prohibited and should not be engaged in during meetings of the Memphis City Council.”
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) has identified the man fatally shot after pulling a gun at the Fred D. Thompson federal courthouse in Nashville on Thursday as Jack Henson II, who the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee told The Tennessee Star was a North Carolina man with no known motive.
TBI released Henson’s name on Thursday night, stating that the 42-year-old man walked into the courthouse while brandishing a firearm and knife. The investigators wrote that “the situation escalated, resulting in a federal security officer discharging his service weapon and striking Henson.”
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A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told The Tennessee Star on Wednesday that immigration authorities filed a detainer for Fidel Facundo Navarro-Lopez, one of the three men the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) said on Monday were arrested in a Chattanooga human trafficking investigation.
Describing the defendant as a “criminal illegal alien from Guatemala,” the DHS spokesman told The Star that Navarro-Lopez was previously convicted for driving while under the influence of liquor.
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A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the lawsuit filed by an artificial intelligence (AI) data center developer whose plans to build near the Nashville Zoo prompted Metro Nashville to impose new restrictions on data centers and pursue a plan to acquire the company’s property through eminent domain. The company sued over the moratorium.
U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, dismissed the lawsuit filed in August by DC BLOX in a 3-page decision. It was filed alongside a 50-page memorandum that said the company’s lawsuit failed to explain how a federal court should address the situation, and explained his decision to allow the plaintiff 21 days to file with amended claims.
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday released the FBI complaint against James Cody Bryant, a 30-year-old man from Bellingham, Washington, revealing he is accused of conspiring with Jesse Van Rootselaar, who identified as a transgender woman, when he killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, in February.
Over a six-month period, the DOJ accuses Bryant of providing “advice, money, and technical assistance” to the killer, who fatally shot his mother and step-brother at the family residence, then killed five students and one educator at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School on February 10.
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The Republican nominee for the newly redrawn 9th Congressional District blamed his opponent, State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), after a Memphis City Council meeting erupted into shouting, clearing the chamber and reportedly sparking a fight in the hallway.
“My opponent Democratic Socialist Justin Pearson let his chaos flag fly and led an angry mob to shut down a city council meeting tonight (which is something he has great experience at doing),” wrote State Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) in a post to X. “This election truly is a choice between competence and chaos.”
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The Tuesday hearing set by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in the second immigration lawsuit filed by Kilmar Abrego Garcia was abruptly canceled, with an immigration attorney representing the citizen of El Salvador claiming the court was “unable to go forward” that day.
Abrego Garcia was back in the courtroom on Tuesday after the judge, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, scheduled a hearing for both sides to make their arguments for whether the Trump administration could deport him to Liberia.
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office (HSCO) on Monday reported that a joint human trafficking investigation, conducted with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), resulted in three arrests, including an illegal alien from Honduras who was previously deported and a Tennessee chiropractor.
TBI first announced the results of the joint operation, which it described as undercover, and revealed it occurred on Friday and Saturday. According to the agency, which is the primary law enforcement entity in Tennessee for leading human trafficking investigations, the operation’s goal “was to identify individuals seeking to engage in sex acts with minors.”
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U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw issued an order indicating he will soon reverse his July 1 decision that blocked the state takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS). He reportedly revealed on Friday that he never intended to prevent the state Education Oversight Board from meeting.
In his Monday order, Crenshaw instructed Education Oversight Board Chairman Billy Orgel to file a statement notifying the court “when the Board is ready, willing, and able to perform its duties under Public Chapter 1057,” the law passed by the General Assembly to allow an oversight board to assume responsibilities for school districts that meet specific criteria.
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday that a Chilean-owned plastics company in Knoxville, America Plastics, has agreed to repay about $2.25 million to settle allegations that it failed to count foreign workers in its application for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the DOJ, America Plastics obtained a PPP loan, as well as debt forgiveness, despite not being entitled to the loan due to a failure “to include employees of its foreign parent and foreign affiliates,” which if included, “would have exceeded the 300-employee size limitation applicable to second-draw PPP loans and would not have been eligible to receive the loan.”
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told The Tennessee Star on Monday that Jerson Diaz-Diaz, the 22-year-old man who was arrested last month after he allegedly posed as a 16-year-old in order to sexually exploit a teenage girl in Nashville, illegally entered the United States in 2021 and was released by the Biden administration.
Confirming that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filed a detainer to block his release, a DHS spokesperson told The Star that Diaz-Diaz is an illegal alien from Honduras.
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The White House on Wednesday reaffirmed its support for Sam Adkisson, the Vanderbilt University graduate and White House attorney whose nomination was announced by President Donald Trump in August, but had his nomination blocked this week after U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) reportedly did not return a U.S. Senate blue slip to signal her approval.
After Adkisson’s nomination was blocked, Bloomberg Law reported that White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis described him as “one of the brightest young conservative lawyers in the country,” and a “standout member of the White House Counsel’s Office.”
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President Donald Trump on Thursday questioned how Christa Piker, who was scheduled to be executed this week for the 1995 premeditated murder of Colleen Slemmer but was hospitalized after surviving, did not succumb to two doses of a lethal injection.
Asked while standing with Texas politicians while in the state for an event, Trump deferred to Tennessee officials, before questioning the outcome.
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Less than two years after establishing an office in Nashville, the Republican Party-aligned law firm Holtzman Vogel on Thursday announced that it is moving to newly remodeled office space at Broadwest on West End Avenue.
According to its Wednesday press release, the firm will immediately expand to office space containing 22 offices and more than 8,000 square feet, though the new location includes plans for its footprint to swell to 37 officers across nearly 13,000 square feet.
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In response to the botched execution of Christa Pike, who was convicted more than 20 years ago for the 1995 premeditated murder of Colleen Slemmer, on Thursday U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said she will “bring back the electric chair” if elected Governor of Tennessee in November.
“This situation is tragic. Christa Pike should have been executed long ago,” wrote Blackburn in a Thursday post to X. “Now, this botched process is extending the pain for the family of Colleen Slemmer.”
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While the White House marked the first year since the authorization of the Memphis Safe Task Force (MSTF) earlier this month, the U.S. Marshals Service on Tuesday released a retrospective exactly one year after combined federal, state, and local forces deployed to the Bluff City on September 29, 2025.
The Marshals said task force members have made 12,796 arrests since the deployment. Of these arrests, the federal law enforcement agency said in its press release that 131 were homicide arrests, while 1,367 were for controlled substances, 125 for sex offenses, and 1,279 for firearms violations.
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