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- The Independent
Officials plan to seek the death penalty for a Tennessee man charged with killing 4 people
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a Tennessee man charged with killing the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home's front yard, authorities said Thursday. Austin Robert Drummond, 28, appeared by a video feed from jail before a judge in Tiptonville, two days after he was arrested in the killings that set mostly rural areas of western Tennessee on edge. District Attorney Danny Goodman told the judge that the state intends to seek the death penalty. Lake County General Sessions Judge Andrew T. Cook ordered Drummond held without bond because it is a capital case. Drummond was sitting in a black and white striped jumpsuit. He told a judge he operated a business and he said he wants a speedy trial. The judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf and granted him a court-appointed attorney, who did not immediately return a calls seeking comment Thursday. The judge also arraigned Branden Powell, who authorities say was stopped in a vehicle with Drummond days before the shootings as they were attempting to deliver marijuana to the jail in Lake County. Powell did not enter a plea because he is trying to hire a lawyer, he said during his hearing. Drummond is charged with four counts of first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and weapons offenses. A weeklong search for Drummond ended in Jackson, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) southeast of the location of the July 29 slayings. Officers had responded to a call of an infant in a car seat being dropped at a 'random individual's front yard" in the Tigrett area, roughly 40 miles (65 kilometers) from Tiptonville, the Dyer County Sheriff's Office said. Then, investigators in neighboring Lake County reported that four people had been found dead from gunshot wounds in Tiptonville. Officials determined they were the baby's parents, James M. Wilson, 21, and Adrianna Williams, 20; Williams' brother, Braydon Williams, 15; and their mother, Cortney Rose, 38. Investigators determined the four had not been seen since the night before, Goodman said. A relative had called 911 after finding two vehicles in a remote area, and the four bodies were found in nearby woods, Goodman said. Goodman said Drummond's girlfriend is the sister of the infant's grandmother. Kim Hamil, Wilson's mother, said Thursday that it was a 'really bad situation' for the relatives and they were trying to let justice take its course. They were going to be in court every chance they could, Hamil said. 'It's a whole family gone,' said Hamil. 'It's unbelievable." She said the family loved each other and that Wilson was a good father and son. Relatives are caring for the baby. "As a family, we're just broken,' Hamil said. It's believed Drummond targeted the victims, said Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch. The agency has also charged three other people with helping Drummond after the killings. Drummond was arrested based on tips after police released a surveillance clip showing a man they said was Drummond wearing camouflage and carrying a firearm, authorities said. Drummond had been staying in a vacant building near the woods. Drummond has served prison time for robbing a convenience store and threatening to go after jurors. He was also charged with attempted murder while behind bars, and was out on bond at the time of the killings, Goodman said. With a population of about 3,400 people, Tiptonville is near the Mississippi River and scenic Reelfoot Lake. A popular tourist destination, the 15,000-acre (6,070-hectare) lake was created by violent earthquakes in 1811-1812 that caused the river to flow backward and essentially flood a forest. ___ This story has been corrected to show that authorities said three others helped Drummond, not Goodman. This story has also been corrected to show the dateline is in Tiptonville, not Titponville. ___
BBC News
20 minutes ago
- BBC News
Cannabis: More than a dozen arrests over Spain-Ireland animal feed drug smuggling
Spanish police say they have broken up a criminal gang suspected of smuggling cannabis hidden in bags of animal feed into the Republic of operation, which involved Irish police and the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA), saw 13 people arrested in Spain and a further arrest earlier this summer in County a number of raids on properties in Madrid, Malaga and Seville, Spanish police seized €100,000 (£86,000), 630 marijuana plants, a firearm and three watches, electronic devices have also been seized while property and assets of over €2m (£1.7m) have been blocked, Spain's National Police said. The investigation, involving all three police agencies, began in January of this year after authorities identified a group of Irish, British and Spanish nationals using freight companies to ship animal feed with concealed cannabis buds to Ireland.A number of shipments, police in Spain said on Thursday, were intercepted over recent months and around 300kgs of cannabis authorities believe more than three tonnes of cannabis may have been smuggled since 2019. A spokesperson for An Garda Síochána (Irish police) said they arrested a man in May 2025 "as part of an investigation conducted with Spanish police"."This man was charged and appeared before the courts," the spokesperson added.
Telegraph
an hour ago
- Telegraph
Police raid passport photo data in ‘historic breach of privacy'
Police have conducted hundreds of facial recognition searches on Britain's passport photo database in a 'historic breach of the right to privacy', The Telegraph can reveal. The number of requests by police to use passport and immigration information to identify criminals has 'skyrocketed', according to campaigners, despite concerns about civil liberties. Dozens of forces across Britain now use retrospective facial recognition technology, which allows them to identify suspects on CCTV or doorbell camera footage without ever leaving their desks. Ministers say that the system speeds up investigations, but opponents say it has become a branch of an 'Orwellian' surveillance state. The searches for facial matches are usually restricted to the police's own database of mugshots, but officers have increasingly been requesting to use the Home Office's repository of more than 50 million passport photos. 'Damaging public trust' A passport holder whose face was searched by police would never know that their data had been used for that purpose. The UK's former biometrics watchdog has warned the practice has a 'significant risk of disproportionality and of damaging public trust'. Data obtained under freedom of information laws by Big Brother Watch, a civil liberties campaign group, found that the number of passport photo searches increased from two in 2020 to 417 in 2023. In the first 10 months of 2024, another 377 searches were conducted, putting police on course for a similar number of searches last year. The number of searches against the immigration database, which is formed of photos collected by Border Force, increased sevenfold over the same period to 102 searches last year. The system means that photos of people who have never been convicted of a crime have been processed by police with limited legal or regulatory oversight. The use of passport and immigration data is generally reserved for the investigation of more serious crimes, but The Telegraph has previously revealed that police now routinely use searches on mugshots to investigate most crimes. Facial recognition technology is not subject to national guidance from either the Home Office or the College of Policing, which provides advice to police on conducting investigations. Campaigners have now issued a pre-action letter to the Home Office, threatening to sue the government for an unlawful breach of privacy. The campaigners say the Government 'has taken all of our passport photos and secretly turned them into mugshots to build a giant, Orwellian police database'. The Government has previously been criticised for failing to create national guidelines for how police should use facial recognition while protecting the privacy of civilians. Sir Keir Starmer has said he would like to see police expand the use of facial recognition technology, which covers live surveillance cameras on the streets, retrospective searches and a new app for police to take photos and use them to identify suspects. Sir David Davis, the Conservative MP, said the Government had secretly created a biometric digital identity system by the backdoor, without the knowledge or permission of Parliament'. The use of facial recognition has not been subject to a formal vote of MPs, and the position of Biometrics Commissioner, which was created to monitor government use of sensitive data, was vacant for 11 months until July. 'Absolutely no democratic or legal mandate' Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, said legal action was required to address an 'historic' breach of public privacy. 'The Government has taken all of our passport photos and secretly turned them into mugshots to build a giant, Orwellian police database without the public's knowledge or consent and with absolutely no democratic or legal mandate,' she said. 'This has led to repeated, unjustified and ongoing intrusions on the entire population's privacy. 'This astonishing revelation shows both our privacy and democracy are at risk from secretive AI policing, and that members of the public are now subject to the inevitable risk of misidentifications and injustice.' Nuno Guerreiro de Sousa of Privacy International said: 'This secret program is a dangerous infringement on our fundamental rights to privacy and to express ourselves freely, both online and in public. 'It is especially hypocritical that this is happening in a country that prides itself on upholding human rights. This is why we are standing firm in challenging it.'
