Child arrested in connection with armed robbery
The Dispatch
A child was arrested after an armed robbery Tuesday afternoon, according to a press release from the Davidson County Sheriff s Office.
At 3:20 p.m. Tuesday, deputies responded to Hedrick Grove’s Country Store, located at 2160 Allred Road in Lexington. Someone had activated a silent panic alarm in reference to an armed robbery, the release said. A store clerk gave deputies a description of the suspect, saying they took an undisclosed amount of money.
No one reported injuries as a result of the armed robbery.
Deputies spread out across the area looking for the subject and found them not far from the store with the firearm and money, the release said.
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Nashville s jails have become a COVID-19 hot spot once again. The Davidson County Sheriff s Office reports that 92 inmates across three jail facilities have tested positive for the illness, along with eight sheriff s office employees. It s the largest outbreak in Nashville s jails since June, when 182 inmates were infected.
The outbreak comes a little more than a month after a coalition of criminal justice organizations urged the Tennessee Supreme Court to take action to reduce jail populations across the state. A court order at the beginning of the pandemic ordered local judges to make plans to reduce the number of people held in local jails, leading to an overall reduction in Tennessee’s jail population of approximately 30 percent. But populations have steadily risen since then. According to the coalition s court filing, jails in 23 of Tennessee’s 95 counties were operating at or above capacity as of Oct. 31.