THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING TWO BURGLARIES IN THE AREAS OF LAYFAYETTE AND OLD PALESTINE ROADS.

            IN THE FIRST INCIDENT, 82-YEAR OLD LORINE DURHAM TOLD DEPUTIES SOMETIME LAST WEEK UNKNOWN PERSONS BROKE INTO HER HOUSE LOCATED AT 15-561 OLD PALESTINE ROAD AND STOLE AN AC UNIT ALONG WITH A WASHING MACHINE, STOVE AND COPPER WIRING WORTH OVER 35-HUNDRED DOLLARS.

            MEANWHILE, DEPUTIES ARE ALSO INVESTIGATING A BURGLARY REPORT THAT OCCURRED AT 48-01 LAFAYETTE ROAD SOMETIME LAST MONTH AND LAST WEEK, WHERE BURGLARS ALLEGEDLY STOLE A NEW WINDOW AIR CONDITIONER UNIT WORTH 500 DOLLARS.

            ACCORDING TO RAYMOND NELSON THE SUSPECTS TOOK THE UNIT FROM HIS RENTAL PROPERTY AND HE SAYS AFTER HE ASKED AROUND, HE WAS GIVEN THE NAME OF A POSSIBLE SUSPECT.

            CHRISTIAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES HAVE NOT MADE ANY ARRESTS IN EITHER REPORT.

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    CLARKSVILLE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING HUMAN REMAINS FOUND ON A CITY STREET THIS MORNING AS A HOMICIDE.
    OFFICER JIM KNOLL SAYS THE MAN’S BODY WAS FOUND AT THE 700 BLOCK OF MARTIN STREET. POLICE SAY THE UNATTENDED DEATH IS BEING INVESTIGATED AS A HOMICIDE AND A CRIME SCENE WAS SET UP IN THE CROSSLAND AVENUE AND MARTIN STREET AREA.
    NO OTHER DETAILS ARE BEING RELEASED AND ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE INFORMATION ON THE INCIDENT IS ASKED TO CALL THE TIPS LINE AT 931-645-8477.
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             A TRIGG COUNTY MAN WHO HAS BEEN A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE FOR A YEAR AND IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW FOR THE BETTER PART OF TWO DECADES IS BACK IN JAIL.
             STATE POLICE ARRESTED 64-YEAR OLD MICHAEL “MICKEY” BRASHEARS SUNDAY MORNING ON CERULEAN-HOPKINSVILLE ROAD IN THE CERULEAN AREA OF TRIGG COUNTY. BRASHEARS HAD ALLEGEDLY BEEN HIDING IN FIELDS, WOODED AREAS AND LIVING IN A TENT FOR THE LAST 12 MONTHS AFTER TROOPERS ALLEGEDLY FOUND A MARIJUANA GROWING OPERATION ON HIS PROPERTY WHILE HE WAS OUT ON BOND FROM A PREVIOUS DRUG CHARGE IN 2007.
              POLICE SAY HE WAS ARMED WITH TWO FIREARMS, BUT WAS ARRESTED WITHOUT INCIDENT AROUND 9:15 AM.
              IN ADDITION TO THE RECENT DRUG CHARGES, BRASHEARS HAS ALSO FACED BURGLARY AND FIREARMS CHARGES GOING BACK TO 1986.
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           CLARKSVILLE POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE NAME OF THE MAN KILLED WALKING ACROSS FORT CAMPBELL BOULEVARD SATURDAY MORNING.

           A NEWS RELEASE FROM PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER JIM KNOLL IDENTIFIES THE VICTIM AS 27-YEAR OLD OLAF HERNANDEZ –ANTONIO OF FORT CAMPBELL.

          THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 5:17 AM SATURDAY, WHEN ANTONIO REPORTEDLY WALKED ONTO FORT CAMPBELL BOULEVARD WEARING DARK CLOTHING AND LOOKING DOWN AT HIS CELL PHONE.

          24-YEAR OLD CHRISTOPHER RUTHERFORD OF CLARKSVILLE ATTEMPTED TO AVOID COLLISION, BUT WAS UNABLE TO DO SO. THE INCIDENT HAPPENED IN THE AREA OF THE WINNER CIRCLE MOTEL.
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            ALCOHOL WAS A FACTOR IN THE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED SHOOTING ON FOREST CIRCLE IN CADIZ FRIDAY NIGHT.

            A NEWS RELEASE FROM THE TRIGG COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS 50-YEAR OLD PAMELA HARRELL OF CADIZ AND THE VICTIM, DARLA MITCHELL, WERE INTOXICATED WHEN HARRELL PICKED UP A PISTOL AND STATED SHE WOULD USE IT ON ANY THIEVES SHE CAUGHT ON HER PROPERTY.

MITCHELL THEN TOOK THE GUN AND REMOVED THE MAGAZINE AND BULLETS. THE PAIR DIDN’T REALIZE THE GUN STILL HAD ONE LIVE ROUND AND HARRELL POINTED THE GUN IN THE DIRECTION OF MITCHELL AND PULLED THE TRIGGER.

MITCHELL WAS SHOT THROUGH THE BREAST AND ARM AND WAS TREATED AND RELEASED FROM TRIGG COUNTY HOSPITAL. STATE POLICE ASSISTED DEPUTIES ON THE SCENE.

MITCHELL WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH 1^ST DEGREE WANTON ENDANGERMENT.

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