Notable Arrest Records in Tennessee
A mugshot only records the moment of booking. The outcome lives elsewhere. Court files and prosecutor statements hold key facts. Agency releases and major news coverage tell how a case ended. Some ended in pleas, some in jury verdicts, some in sentences on appeal. Those later steps stay open until a court closes them.
No booking images appear in this listing. No stable public photo URL exists in those cases. An agency portrait will not stand in for the real thing. Check the linked court or prosecutor record. Then ask the county custodian for the booking file itself. News accounts help with the timeline, but the court disposition controls.
Arrest is not guilt. Read the documented plea, verdict, or sentence for the outcome, and confirm later activity with the court that handled the case.
Eight Tennessee Cases and Their Records
The eight cases below separate the arrest event from the outcome and from the office that owns the record. A federal case file may sit far from the county jail that did the booking. Where no official image exists, no photo location is listed.
| Case | Sourced disposition | Record path |
|---|---|---|
| Morgan Wallen, 2024 | Guilty plea to two misdemeanor reckless-endangerment counts; seven days in a DUI education center and two years of supervised probation. | Davidson County booking and court records. |
| Travis Reinking, 2018 | Jury guilty verdicts on all 16 counts, including eight first-degree murders; life without parole in 2022. | Davidson County Sheriff and District Attorney case report. |
| RaDonda Vaught, 2019-2022 | Guilty verdicts for criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect or abuse; three years of supervised probation with judicial diversion. | Davidson County Criminal Court; separate Tennessee appellate history for the license matter. |
| Andrew Delke, 2018-2021 | Guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter in 2021; three-year sentence. | MNPD records and Davidson County Criminal Court. |
| Charles Scott Cravens, 2017 | Guilty plea to three honest-services bribery counts and one civil-rights deprivation count; 33 months and two years of supervised release. | Middle District of Tennessee federal case and DOJ release. |
| John Ford, 2005-2007 | Sources report a federal bribery conviction and a five-and-one-half-year sentence; later procedural history remains incomplete. | Federal docket, Sixth Circuit opinion, and FBI case history. |
| Robert Arnold, 2016-2017 | Guilty plea to wire fraud, honest-services fraud, and extortion; 50 months, three years of supervision, restitution, and forfeiture. | Middle District of Tennessee federal case and DOJ release. |
| Cason Moreland, 2017-2018 | Guilty plea to five counts; 44 months, restitution, and forfeiture. | Federal complaint, docket, and DOJ sentencing release. |
Nashville Booking: Morgan Wallen
A chair fell from a Nashville bar roof on April 7, 2024. Metropolitan Nashville Police arrested and booked Morgan Wallen that night. The arrest report captures the intake charges, nothing more. The Associated Press disposition report says he later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment. His sentence ran seven days in a DUI education center plus two years of supervised probation.
Two county offices split the paperwork. The Davidson County Sheriff holds the custody record, and the Criminal Court Clerk holds the court file and disposition. No stable public booking-photo URL is listed. For an old photo, ask the original custodian. Do not rely on a press image or an unofficial copy.
Davidson County: Travis Reinking
After the 2018 Waffle House shooting in Nashville, police arrested Travis Reinking, and Davidson County's detention system booked him. The manhunt made national news. But an arrest-stage account is the wrong endpoint for a case that went to trial. The Davidson County District Attorney's case report records a jury verdict of guilty on all 16 counts, including eight counts of first-degree murder.
The DA's report sets his February 2022 sentence at life without parole. The disposition belongs with Davidson County's criminal court. The booking and custody record belongs with the sheriff. No stable current official photo URL is listed.
Note: A completed trial changes the case record, while a booking card remains only a dated intake record.
RaDonda Vaught's Tennessee Court Record
Davidson County prosecuted nurse RaDonda Vaught after a medication error killed a patient. The case is styled State v. RaDonda Vaught, 2019-A-76. In March 2022 a jury found her guilty of criminally negligent homicide. The same verdict covered gross neglect or abuse of an impaired adult. The reported sentencing account gives her punishment. She received three years of supervised probation with judicial diversion. Completing diversion successfully can open an expungement path. Nothing about it is automatic.
The criminal case record sits with Davidson County Criminal Court. A later professional-license appeal runs through its own Tennessee appellate record. Blending the two proceedings only confuses the trail.
The Tennessee Courts Public Case History search displays a blank appellate-case form. It searches appellate matters, not county criminal dockets.
The blank form shows no one's file. A missing appellate result says nothing about a trial-court booking photo or arrest record. The criminal disposition stays in the trial-court file, and the nursing-board matter follows its own administrative appeal path.
Andrew Delke's Arrest and Disposition
Andrew Delke was a Metro Nashville Police officer. His 2018 shooting of Daniel Hambrick ended his career and brought criminal charges. In July 2021 he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. He received a three-year sentence, closing a case that had drawn heavy public attention.
The statement from Delke's defense attorneys covers the plea and sentence. It is not a court-certified copy. For police records, MNPD Central Records is the route. The disposition sits with Davidson County Criminal Court. No stable official booking-photo URL exists, and a department portrait is not a mugshot.
Note: Request the court record itself for an official copy of the plea or judgment rather than relying on a party's summary.
Fentress County Records: Charles Cravens
Charles Scott Cravens once ran law enforcement in Fentress County. He served as sheriff and jail administrator there. His federal case grew out of that public role. The U.S. Department of Justice sentencing release says he pleaded guilty to three honest-services bribery counts and one count of deprivation of rights under color of law.
The sentence came in August 2017: 33 months in prison, then two years of supervised release. The plea and judgment live in the federal docket. Any county booking material, if it survives, would sit with Fentress County records. No original booking photo has a stable public URL. A federal prison sentence is not a county booking record.
Tennessee Waltz: John Ford's Case
John Ford held office as a Tennessee state senator and Shelby County official. Federal agents swept him up in the Tennessee Waltz public-corruption investigation. His conviction and appeal belong to federal court records, traced through the Sixth Circuit opinion.
A contemporaneous Action News 5 report covered his sentencing. It recorded a five-and-one-half-year prison term on the bribery conviction. Those reports do not spell out every later procedural step. Check the federal docket first. Then treat that number as his complete final status. No stable original booking-photo URL exists for him.
Note: An appellate opinion traces a federal case. But a full docket matters when later appeals or sentence changes could apply.
Rutherford County: Robert Arnold
Robert Arnold once served as sheriff of Rutherford County. A federal corruption case ended his career. The scandal centered on JailCigs, a business tied to jail operations. According to the Middle District of Tennessee DOJ release, Arnold pleaded guilty in January 2017 to three counts. They covered wire fraud, honest-services fraud, and extortion under color of official right.
The sentencing came in May 2017. Arnold received 50 months in prison plus three years of supervised release. Restitution and forfeiture were also ordered. For custody or booking material held locally, Rutherford County records are the place to look, since a DOJ sentencing release is not a jail booking card and the sheriff's office publishes no original mugshot online.
Davidson County: Cason Moreland
Cason “Casey” Moreland sat as a Davidson County General Sessions judge. An FBI investigation brought federal charges. They covered obstruction, witness tampering, and theft-related conduct. The Justice Department preserved the sentencing release describing the case and its result.
Moreland pleaded guilty to five counts in May 2018. That November, the court sentenced him to 44 months in prison, with restitution and forfeiture. The federal docket holds the charging, plea, and judgment records. Any local booking image belongs with the police or sheriff's custodian. No stable official photo URL exists. A federal sentence is not a county booking record.
Find a Tennessee Arrest Record
Chasing a different name or arrest? Start with the county that made the booking. The statewide arrest-record page explains how Tennessee county rosters and records requests differ from one another. The Old Mugshots archive page covers historical state-prison and county-retention paths, so the next step depends on what needs confirming.
- Ask the county sheriff or jail for the booking record and photo, using the person's name and approximate date.
- Ask the county clerk or court for the case number, plea or verdict, and disposition.
- For a federal prosecution, search or request the federal docket. For a state-prison custody question, use TDOC's official offender search.
- Compare any news report with the court record and ask the originating custodian about a correction or missing file.
These cases stretch across county bookings, a state appellate matter, and federal prosecutions. That range explains why one arrest phrase can point to very different records. A roster shows custody at a point in time. A case file shows the court process. A disposition states what the court finally decided. Ask the custodian that created the record whenever sources disagree.