NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — After a months-long search, the Metro Nashville Police Department arrested a man who had been “indicted in the largest methamphetamine enforcement action in the city’s history.”
Police said 38-year-old Timothy Batts was one of several people charged with taking part in “a meth conspiracy” that ultimately led officers to intercept about 800 pounds of meth and 24 pounds of fentanyl between November 2022 and 2024. Batts allegedly paid residents for the use of their addresses to receive parcels of drugs.
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The MNPD said detectives saw Batts leaving a Madison apartment complex Monday and followed him until officers were in a position to initiate a traffic stop. When Batts did not pull over, authorities utilized spike strips on the Ellington Parkway on-ramp from Cleveland Street. Batts then surrendered.
Batts’ bond has been set by a Criminal Court judge at $150,000.
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In 2017, Batts was sentenced to four years in prison after he shot and killed his young daughter as she returned home from school. He testified during his trial and told the jury he thought his 11-year-old daughter was an intruder trying to break into their Shady View Drive home on Aug. 8, 2016 when she was shot…