Desmond Ladon Logan, the former Chattanooga police officer who admitted to raping three women in his custody and using a Taser on a fourth woman, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, the maximum amount possible under his plea agreement.
Immediate issue is whether District Attorney General Steve Crump should be disqualified
The attorneys for a woman convicted of second-degree murder are asking a judge to disqualify 10th Judicial District Attorney General Steve Crump's entire office from the case after the chief prosecutor was accused of withholding evidence in order to hide an alleged affair for which he was purportedly being blackmailed into securing a conviction.
A Chattanooga man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for holding a woman hostage in 2017 for at least two days and torturing her repeatedly.
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to hand down a sentence of at least 17 years in prison for Desmond Ladon Logan, the former Chattanooga police officer who admitted to raping three women in his custody and using a Taser on a fourth woman.
It was Tamara Church's last known cellphone location data that led detectives to a wooded area near an Eastdale church where they found her body and that of her 7-year-old daughter, nearly two months after they were last seen.
Three Chattanooga police officers are recovering from injuries sustained in a Hixson duplex fire while trying to arrest a burglary suspect Sunday night, the police department confirmed Tuesday.
The district attorney, Steve Crump, says he was not blackmailed into prosecuting victim's wife
A federal judge admonished the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office during a hearing on Wednesday for wiping what was left of its dashcam server after a "catastrophic" system crash caused 15 months worth of original dashcam videos to disappear, including those of criminally charged former Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Deputy Daniel Wilkey.
Chattanooga's seventh shooting in eight days left a 31-year-old man dead Thursday afternoon.
