Tag: davidson county sheriff’s office

Nashville Sheriff Corporal BJ Hayes charged after punching & strangling inmate

Jason Steen

31-year-old Bryson ‘BJ’ Hayes, who is a Corporal at the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office, was jailed Monday on an outstanding felony warrant charging him with the felony aggravated assault and strangulation of an inmate in December. DCSO Investigators turned over video surveillance of the incident to Metro Nashville Police Detectives earlier this year. Police say the video clearly shows an inmate spitting on Hayws on two separate occasions. After the second occasion, Hayes begins to punch the inmate with a closed fist and throws him to the ground, where he places him in a chokehold restraint position. The victim told investigators he had trouble breathing while being restrained with the officer’s hands around his neck. During an interview, Hayes admitted to strangling the inmate and agreed he used unapproved tactics in response to the situation. Police interviewed multiple employees who also witnessed the incident.  

Shakia Davidson jailed after giving false information to the DMV to obtain a driver’s license

Jason Steen

Troopers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol were dispatched to the state’s DMV/Driver Services Center downtown on 7th Ave on Wednesday after an alert employee noticed 20-year-old Shakia Davidson was attempting to obtain a duplicate driver’s license using false information & documents. Examiner Selakia Shaw stated that Davidson gave false information to the state center and signed the application stating it was her correct and own information. When the examiner pulled up the photo on file for the information she listed on the application, it was obvious the photo did not match Davidson. Davidson admitted to the crime.

Teens flee from police in Fusion; one attempts to take an officer’s digits when caught

Arianna Rupe

18-year-old Keymanda Woods was charged with assault of an officer and resisting arrest, and 18-year-old Dantay Campbell was charged with evading arrest after they fled from police in a Ford Fusion and Woods bit an officer while they attempted to take her into custody.

Subject of drug trafficking investigation caught trying to sell 2 kilos of heroin

Trish Butler
feat Cruz, Victor

26-year-old Victor Cruz was arrested and charged with felony heroin possession with intent to sell after he was caught attempting to sell 2 kilos of heroin. Cruz has been the subject of an ongoing investigation of a drug trafficking outfit.

DCSO Officers had to rescue ‘Trainko’ from assault & headlock by another inmate while in jail

Jason Steen

Local rapper Dyquan ‘Trainko’ Collins was being booked in the Hill Detention Center on March 6th, after he posted a sex-tape of him and his girlfriend on Instagram. While he was in the intake area of the jail, he was assaulted by another inmate, Ladarius Hunter, who placed him in a headlock, which he had to be rescued from by officers.

Narcan used for inmate overdoses every 12 days on average inside Nashville jails

Jason Steen

A medical incident earlier in November prompted some questions about how frequently overdoses are happening in Nashville’s jails. So far in 2018, medical staff have responded to, and used Narcan in, a total of 29 cases within Davidson County Jails – once every 12 days, on average. On what was an otherwise normal Friday morning at 7 A.M. in the D1 housing unit inside a Nashville jail, which houses 61 inmates in an open barracks style unit, there was a sudden medical emergency with an inmate. 32-year-old James Livingston, who…