Updated: 3:45 PM CDT May 14, 2021
DYERSBURG, Tenn. A man and woman are behind bars after police say they abducted a child Thursday morning.
According to the Dyersburg Police Department, a woman’s ex-boyfriend, 26-year-old John McLean, and a 22-year-old woman, Harley Allen, came to the woman’s home and tried to abduct both of her kids. One child got away, but McLean and Allen grabbed the woman’s 4-year-old child and sped off, but not before the woman was choked and physically assaulted. An officer saw the car near Forrest Street and stopped it. The child was unharmed.
McLean is charged with Aggravated Kidnapping, Aggravated Assault, Child Abuse and Neglect, and Violation of a No Contact Order. Allen was charged with Aggravated Kidnapping, and Child Abuse and Neglect. Both were put in jail pending action by the Dyersburg City Court.
WBBJ TV
January 5, 2021
DYERSBURG, Tenn. The Dyersburg Police Department says a man has been arrested on weapon and drug charges.
A news release from the department says Javarius Mann, 32, was arrested on Monday around 5 p.m. Police say he had been stopped for a traffic infraction on Hornbrook Street.
The release says that Mann was found with a handgun, over 400 pills suspected to be ecstasy, and money believed to be from illegal drug sales.
He has been charged with has been charged with possession of schedule II with intent to sell, unlawful possession of a firearm, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony.