MJ man charged with first degree murder of his wife

     A Mt. Juliet man is behind bars today having been charged with the first degree murder of his wife.

     Emergency medical personnel were dispatched to the couple’s home on Dogwood Hills Court on Tuesday after reports of a woman falling down a flight of stairs. Shelly Allen, 47, was already dead when responders arrived, according to authorities on Thursday.

     Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe said in a release Thursday that at the scene detectives found inconsistencies, and information obtained from the medical examiner revealed Allen died as a result of blunt force trauma.

     Fox was interviewed, officials said, and indicated in a statement his involvement in the death of his wife. A motive was unknown as of Thursday.

     Fox is being held in the Wilson County jail without bond.

‘Wooded Rapist’ gets 32 years, faces more charges

     Robert Jason Burdick, also known as “The Wooded Rapist,” was sentenced to 32 years in prison without the possibility of parole in Davidson County on July 2.

     Burdick was convicted of raping a Donelson woman in her home and charged with the rape of more than a dozen women across Middle Tennessee, including a Mt. Juliet-area teen in the driveway of her home near Hwy 109. Authorities believe Burdick raped women in Davidson, Williamson, and Wilson counties between 1994 and 2008.

      Burdick is 39. He still faces charges in Metro Nashville, Williamson, and Wilson counties.

MJPD arrests two based on Grand Jury Indictments

Timothy Hubbard of Mount Juliet was arrested for Filing a False Police Report and Theft over $1000.00 for an incident stemming from a reported robbery at the Taco Bell located in Providence Marketplace. On February 2, 2009 Mount Juliet Police Department received a call of a robbery at the Taco Bell in Providence. Officers and Detectives responded after a lengthy investigation it was determined that a robbery did not take place. Mr. Hubbard was indicted by the Wilson County Grand Jury in the June term and arrested for the charges on June 10, 2009 without incident.

Robert Anthony Payne 40 of Nashville was arrested for Aggravated Assault, Aggravated Robbery, Aggravated Sexual Assault, and Theft for a November incident where the victim was assaulted at the Mt. Juliet Little League ball park on November 24, 2008. Mr. Payne is currently incarcerated in the Tennessee Department of Corrections on unrelated charges. At the time of the attack Mr. Payne was on parole for 50 years on various charges out of Davidson County. Mr. Payne was served his warrants by the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office during transport to the Wilson County Jail.

The Mount Juliet Police Department is happy to announce that they are now auctioning off surplus and seized property of GovDeals.com. Citizens can log on to the website to see surplus and seized property by going to the website www.govdeals.com . Citizens can expect to see items posted on a monthly basis, and by following the simple directions on the website can purchase the items through the website. The website allows the City of Mount Juliet Police Department to reach a broader base of buyers at a lower cost to the city for auctioning off the items. Anyone having questions or comments about the site is encouraged to contact Detective David Stolinsky at the Mount Juliet Police Department at 615-754-2550.

Representative Susan Lynn passes resolution declaring Tennessee’s state sovereignty

Representative Susan Lynn (R-Mt. Juliet) this year passed a resolution in the 106th General Assembly declaring Tennessee’s state sovereignty. Tennessee joined nearly a dozen states who considered measures of declaring state sovereignty, amid what many believe to be an increased level of fiscal irresponsibility on the federal level, coupled with over-reaching by federal agencies. States have suffered a series of unfunded mandates, as Congress continues their record of runaway spending.

 “A message needs to be sent to this Congress that Tennesseans are fed up with the federal government’s out-of-control spending and over-reaching,” said Rep. Lynn. “Some of the directives that have been handed down are dangerously close to violating the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the United States Constitution,” she added.

            House Joint Resolution 108, which passed both the House and Senate overwhelmingly, affirms “Tennessee's sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States.” It goes on to state, “We also demand the federal government to halt and reverse its practice of assuming powers and of imposing mandates upon the states for purposes not enumerated by the Constitution of the United States.”

Rep. Lynn said she felt the resolution expressed the will of the majority of Tennesseans. “The Tenth Amendment delegates any powers not enumerated in the U.S. Constitution as belonging to the federal government to the states and to the people. We’ve moved away from that, and this serves as an important reminder,” she concluded.