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58 get warrants resolved at 2022 Safe Surrender





Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake poses with two volunteers at the Safe Surrender event last weekend.Courtesy / MNPD

Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake poses with two volunteers at the Safe Surrender event last weekend.Courtesy / MNPD

Out of 160 people who attended last weekend’s Safe Surrender event at Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, only 58 had outstanding warrants, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department.

The event allowed people with outstanding non-violent warrants to come to the church to receive favorable consideration for surrendering and possibly go home that day.

Of those 58 with outstanding warrants, 55 went home that day. Out of the three remaining, two had out of county warrants.

The other man had warrants for aggravated stalking of a teenager and third offense of a sex offender registration violation. He was booked downtown and subsequently posted a $10,000 bond. 

This was the fourth Safe Surrender event hosted at Galilee Missionary Baptist Church in Nashville.

Pastor Michael Joyner of Greater Faith Missionary Baptist Church, who coordinated the event, said he felt the event was one of the better ones because of the addition of community partners, such as Operation Stand Down and Metro Action Commission.

 

 

The emphasis at this year’s event was child support and juvenile court issues.

Joyner said he didn’t think it was surprising that over 100 people came without a warrant. Sometimes people get in altercations and are threatened with a warrant and think they have one.

Others came in for help with revoked driver’s licenses or expungements. The event was not set up to resolve all those issues, but people were able to get pointed in the right direction.

Fifty-eight cleared warrants is still a big deal, Joyner said, adding that it could take MNPD up to two weeks to serve that many warrants.

Joyner said he wanted to continue to do the program every year. The community has been supportive, and this year had the most volunteers since a four-day event in 2007.

“People have now seen what the program will do, and they’re comfortable trying to tell people about it,” he said.

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