On Friday, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Corrections personnel assigned to the George Unit responded to an incident in which an inmate was critically injured during an inmate-on-inmate assault involving a makeshift weapon. Within one minute of the attack, corrections staff and contract medical personnel began administering medical aid to the injured inmate, identified as Leslie […]

On Sunday, August 31,  at approximately 2:00 a.m., Hamilton County Sheriff’s deputies conducted a traffic stop that led to a warrant arrest, bringing closure to one of the largest cases of critical infrastructure vandalism and theft of electric grid components in our region. The investigation revealed that between late 2024 and August 2025, Joel Donald […]

On Thursday,  Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Corrections personnel were notified of an inmate, who had been routinely treated for a prior chronic illness, going into cardiac arrest. HCSO Corrections Deputies and contract medical personnel immediately began to administer medical aid while waiting for the arrival of an ambulance. The inmate was transported to a local […]

The Chattanooga Police Department (CPD) has arrested two suspects, a 17-year-old male and a 21-year-old female – Janecia McKevie, in connection with the death of a 3-year-old boy and significant abuse of a one-year-old boy.   On August 28, 2025 at 9:11 a.m., officers responded to a report of an unresponsive 3-year-old drowning victim at an apartment in […]

An undercover joint operation by special agents with TBI’s Human Trafficking Unit, the Tennessee Human Trafficking Task Force, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Collegedale Police Department, the Cleveland Police Department, The Bradley County Sheriff’s Office, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, the 10th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, and the 11th Judicial District Attorney’s Office has […]