A law enforcement sweep on Wednesday resulted in 29 arrests and the seizure of seven illegal firearms across the region, according to authorities with the Memphis Safe Task Force.
Among those taken into custody were two individuals wanted in separate fatal incidents. Tamela Taylor, 23, was arrested at a home along the 180 block of Woods Road in Humboldt. She was booked into the Shelby County jail on warrants for vehicular homicide by intoxication, reckless vehicular homicide, and reckless aggravated assault.
In Covington, officers arrested 19-year-old Taeveon Smith in the 100 block of Village Road with help from the Covington Police Department. Smith was booked without incident on warrants for first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault, and using a firearm during a felony. Authorities tied him to a March 29 shooting in the 30 block of West Shelby Drive that left one man dead and two other people hurt…