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A Tennessee Comptroller investigation found that a former Shelbyville Police Department clerk, Lilia Torres, pocketed at least $23,000 in cash citation payments between January of 23 and September of 2025.
Investigators say she sometimes recorded a smaller payment than what a person actually paid—or marked citations dismissed before court without an order—then… just kept the difference.
The report says Torres made 36 false cashiering-system entries and removed at least one official receipt book from the department after she was suspended, making it impossible to determine the full scope of the missing money.
Now how in the world do you suppose THAT was possible?
The report also flags a major internal-control failure: one employee could collect the cash, enter it into the system, and prepare deposits with little oversight—basically letting the same person run the register, keep the books, and check their own homework.
Who could have known!? 🤷♂️
A Bedford County grand jury indicted Torres on charges including theft, official misconduct, tampering or fabricating government records, and tampering with evidence.
One commenter, an anonymous jounalist out of Bedford County, expressed disgust at the fact that it took over a year to notice the missing funds, saying, "twelve months of "internal review" to catch what two minutes of forward thinking could have flagged at the counter."
But don't worry, Shelbyville and the police department say they have corrected—or plan to correct—the control problems identified in the report.
Round 2
Two Michigan men are accused of pulling a gift-card scam at multiple Murfreesboro gas stations, getting cashiers to load $490 onto Propel cards while handing over exactly one dolla!
Eric Smith and Jerrell Clement hit several 7‑11 and Speedway locations over two days, racking up nearly $5,000 in unpaid card balances.
And the plan worked, right up until surveillance footage and LPRs connected the same dark blue Chrysler Pacifica to every stop.
Analysts tracked the rental car all the way to Perrysburg, Ohio, where police found the pair leaving a Waffle House… which is weird, because you'd think almost $5k could afford you a nicer dinner.
These doofuses were detained, identified as the suspects in the Murfreesboro cases, and are being held in Ohio awaiting extradition to Rutherford County.
Now they both face theft charges.
That's two rounds down and one to go, if you tickle the like button 200 times, I promise to giggle in the next segment I record.
Round 3
Palette cleanser!!
Hearing the constant worst-of-the-worst stories that Tennessee has to offer can certainly make it seem like things are going to hell in a handbasket.
I mean, they are, but, there's some good stuff in there, too 🙂
For example,
first responders in LaVergne got a call about one of the city’s tiniest residents…a kitten trapped inside a storm drain.
Dispatchers sent help, and Fire Rescue and Police worked together to pull the little furball back out.
No fire, no chase, no flashing lights, no hardened criminal knocking over another gas station for $30 worth of merchandise…just a tiny kitten who found out the hard way that storm drains are not a good place to explore.
Thanks to some teamwork and a little redneck ingenuity, this young feline gets to experience *all* of his remaining 9 lives.
That was your daily Tennessee news roundup.
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