Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Tuesday that the state and federal crime-fighting mission in Memphis will continue indefinitely, after the joint operation has notched more than 850 arrests in its first two weeks.
Mr. Lee, a Republican, said those taken into custody include violent criminals and known gang members following the arrival last month of U.S. marshals and agents from the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration to begin their mission in tandem with a deployment of the state’s National Guard.
In addition to the arrests, he shared that federal authorities have seized 175 illegal guns and found 44 missing children. Officials said the vast majority of those missing children were runaways…