Walter McCrimmon Teacher charged in prostitution sting
Memphis — A Shelby County teacher is accused of operating an illegal strip club and promoting prostitution.
WMC-TV reports Memphis police arrested 44-year-old Walter McCrimmon on Saturday when they shut down a business he owns called Walt’s Place, where undercover officers had made several prostitution deals. They also bought alcohol though the club does not have a liquor license.
Shelby County Schools said McCrimmon, a teacher at Raleigh-Egypt High School, has been placed on unpaid suspension.
Mobile Guatemalan consulate to visit
A mobile version of the Guatemalan Consulate Office in Atlanta is coming to Chattanooga.
Consular officials will be available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday to process passports, birth certificates and consular identification cards for local Guatemalan residents. Officials expect to help nearly 500 people, and said Chattanooga has one of the largest Guatemalan communities in the Southeast.
The mobile consulate will be at Orchard Knob Elementary School, 2000 E. Third St. Residents should bring appropriate documents and a money order for processing fees.
Documents needed for each registration type are listed in English and Spanish at lapazchattanooga.org/ calendar/detail/id/71. Volunteers will be on hand to help prepare the documents.
To find out how to help this effort, visit lapazchattanooga.force.com/GW_Volunteers__VolunteersJob ListingFS.
Deputies fatally shoot man
TRENTON, Tenn. — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said it has been asked to investigate after deputies fatally shot a man who pointed a weapon at them.
TBI spokeswoman Susan Niland told The Jackson Sun that Gibson County deputies went to a home near Trenton after a man made several threating calls to emergency dispatchers. Niland said when deputies arrived, 52-year-old Michael Joseph Bartkiewicz came outside and pointed a weapon at them. The deputies fired, and Bartkiewicz died at the scene. No deputies were injured.
Henagar man fatally shot
FORT PAYNE, Ala. — DeKalb County, Ala., Sheriff Jimmy Harris said investigators have three “persons of interest” in the fatal shooting of a Henagar, Ala., man Saturday.
The 911 call came in around 10 p.m., Harris said in a news release Sunday. The body of the 48-year-old white male was taken to the Alabama Department of Forensic Science for an autopsy. The man’s identity and the exact location of the shooting were not released.
“We are still investigating this incident and we have one person of interest being held in the Jackson County Jail on unrelated charges at this time. But we have two other persons of interest that was placed in the vehicle with the alleged shooter,” Harris said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office, Jackson County Sheriff’s Office or Henagar Police Department.