37-year-old Dr. Matthew S.J. Katz, of Nashville General Hospital, has been indicted on 22 counts of obtaining oxycodone by fraud, and 1 count of identity theft, after he used a fellow doctor’s identity to obtain some of the drugs.
The head of a local drug trafficking organization, Kevin Navarro, and multiple associates are now charged as a result of a joint investigation using wiretaps, interception of electronic communications, and numerous controlled purchases of cocaine. Here’s how MNPD took them down.
For the second day this week, there’s been a massive marijuana shipment from Seattle to Nashville via Alaska Airlines. This time the bags flew solo with no courier, and a Nashville man picked up the 40 pounds of pot. And then MNPD picked him up. On Thursday, March 22, 2018, investigators with the DEA received information that two pieces of luggage were coming in on Alaska Airlines Flight #734 from Seattle, WA to BNA. Specifically the individual that checked the luggage dropped the luggage off and then did not board…
Chad Singkeo left Seattle yesterday on an airplane with 25 1-lb vacuum sealed packages of marijuana, bound for Nashville. What he didn’t know was that the DEA knew what was in his luggage, and had a plan for when he landed in Music City. On March 20, 2018 detectives with the Airport Police CID were contacted by agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration concerning an inbound Alaska Airlines passenger with contraband in his luggage. Upon arrival to the DEA office, MNPD made contact with passenger, Chad Jame Singkeo, who had…
