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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A Memphis man will spend more than 22 years in prison for selling meth. Michael Wilson was indicted in March 2025. Law enforcement officers used recorded phone calls, traffic stops, physical surveillance and search warrants to determine that Wilson was distributing felony amounts of methamphetamine for more than one year before his federal indictment.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The Memphis Police Department is investigating after a vehicle crashed into a utility pole during the early morning hours of April 14. When Action News 5 arrived on the scene in the 400 block of Kirby Parkway near Kirby High School at around 4 a.m., we learned that a utility pole was struck by a single vehicle.

Ten years later, Zedric Owens is still in jail and the case hasn't gone to trial.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The Memphis Fire Department is investigating after a house caught fire during the early morning hours of April 14. According to the Memphis Fire Department, crews responded to a house fire on Highland Park Place in the High Point Terrace neighborhood. No word yet on whether...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - On the eve of Memphis Mayor Paul Young presenting his annual budget to city council, a budget that was nearly $900 million for fiscal year 2026, the Moral Budget Coalition said everyone should demand more from their elected leaders. Nonprofit leaders presented their own “Moral Budget”...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Safe Task Force was caught on camera taking at least three people to the ground in two separate incidents Sunday along Beale Street. Several cell phones were recording when Chrishaun Akins, better known as South Memphis HypeMan, was tackled by several National Guardsmen. Moments before it happened, the video shows […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man is charged with domestic assault after allegedly slamming a woman’s head onto a truck door four times in Whitehaven. Jeffrey Free, 33, was charged with two counts of especially aggravated kidnapping, two counts of domestic assault, and aggravated assault. On April 11, just before 2 a.m., officers responded to an […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The man accused of killing an army veteran in Southeast Memphis on New Year’s Eve in 2024 is expected to appear before a judge Tuesday morning. Kobie Deunta Hope is charged with first-degree murder and with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Authorities say Hope fatally gunned down Charles […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Police Department has identified three men it says are responsible for a March 28 shooting at a South Memphis gas station that left one man dead. MPD has issued warrants for Terrence Munson, 44; Terrence Jefferies, 18; and Dequarius Nash, 29. Munson is wanted...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The Memphis Police Department is still searching for the suspect(s) in the shooting that left one man dead in June 2024. On June 23, 2024, police responded to a shooting in the 2800 block of Mimosa Avenue in front of the Chickasaw Place Apartments. Officers were...