Crime

Track crime in your neighborhood

Submitted by Tammy Phillips on Monday, August 30th, 9:17 am

Did you know you can find out about crime in your neighborhood by clicking on the city of Germantown's home page? The city offers a link to a crime reports page that includes a map. You can use the map to navigate to different parts of the city. When you click on the pop-ups, the crimes reported in that area will show up on the left side of the screen.

To try it out for yourself, click here.

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Kiwanis name Germantown police officer of the year

Submitted by Steve Crain, WMCTV.com

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010, 10:40am

Each year the Kiwanis Club of Germantown recognizes an officer who best represents the professionalism defined by the acronym PRIDE: Performance, Responsibility, Integrity, Dedication, and Empathy. This year the club recognizes Lt. Angie Lewis. Lt. Lewis handles a wide variety of activities for the Germantown Police Department.

Read more about it in The Germantown News.

Photo from The Germantown News.

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Police search for suspect in Cordova bank robbery

Submitted by WMCTV Web Staff

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010, 9:09pm

By Jason Miles - bio | email

CORDOVA, TN (WMC-TV) - A suspect remains at large in the Tuesday morning robbery of the Regions Bank at 1045 North Germantown Parkway.

According to authorities, a lone woman entered the bank just before 9:00 a.m. Tuesday.

"We had a lone female enter the bank, produced a weapon, and demanded money from the teller," said Lt. Preston Morton.

After receiving an undetermined amount of cash, the woman fled in what was described as a late model silver or blue Pontiac.

Witnesses said a dye pack exploded in the getaway car and red smoke was seen coming from the car.

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Confrontation at nightclub spills into streets of Germantown

Submitted by WMCTV Web Staff

Monday, July 5th, 2010, 10:08pm

MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - A confrontation at a Memphis nightclub spilled into the streets of Germantown early Monday morning as bullets flew between vehicles following a violent argument.

Club Visions on Ridgeway and Winchester usually attracts large crowds. The club is where this problem began in the early hours of Monday morning.

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Memphis businessman in murder for hire plot commits suicide

Submitted by Andrew Douglas on Monday, June 28th, 8:06 am

MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - A Memphis businessman is suspected of taking his own life rather than turning himself in to police as the suspect in a murder for hire plot.

Two hours before 53-year-old Kenneth Glenn's agreed upon surrender time, Shelby County Sheriff's deputies were called to a home just outside of Collierville where they found him dead in the yard with a gunshot wound to his chest and a pistol by his side.

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