Information provided by Cadence Bank

Memphis, TN (April 23, 2012) – In an effort to combat the growing problem of identity theft and fraud while helping to preserve our environment, Cadence Bank and Cintas® Document Management will sponsor the sixth-annual Community Shred Days. Memphis residents and businesses are invited to bring old and unwanted documents to Cadence Bank locations, where they will be securely destroyed free of charge. 

The events are:

Wednesday, April 25th
Folk’s Folly Branch
591 South Mendenhall
9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Friday, April 27th
Union Branch
1516 Union Avenue
9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

“Identity theft continues to be a problem that affects people and businesses across our community in many different ways,” said Tom Martin, President of Cadence Bank in Memphis.

MEMPHIS, TN- (WMC-TV) - Two bank robbery suspects were arrested after they were tackled inside an East Memphis Target store Friday.

Witnesses said eight officers subdued the suspects in the Starbucks area inside the Target at Poplar and Ridgeway.

The actual bank that was robbed was the SunTrust Bank inside a Kroger store at Poplar and Kirby.  Police said it happened around 3:30 p.m. Friday when a man walked in, demanded money from a teller, and then left in a getaway car driven by a second suspect.

An observant citizen reportedly called police when they spotted the suspects' vehicle at the Target store.

"I'm amazed," said Target shopper Aaron Duberstein.  "This is a great neighborhood, it's unusual for this to happen here, but I guess bad things happen everywhere."

Things were back to normal at Target relatively quickly.  A patrol car remained on the scene at the Kroger hours after the bank robbery.

MEMPHIS, TN- (WMC TV) - Ten days before Memphis police took control of the city's impound lot, the lot's officials sold a mother's vehicle that was state's evidence in her son's murder investigation.

The vehicle, a 1997 Pontiac Grand Am, was owned free and clear by Melody Thomas. Thomas' son, Steven Austin, was driving the car when he was shot dead May 10, 2011, at the intersection of Baltic St. and Faxon Ave in Binghampton.

"His girlfriend called, and she was all...I mean, she was hollering," said Thomas, "and she told me he got shot.

"And I'm thinking hospital visits, you know, he'll be home. But when I got there, it was indescribable."

Records from the Memphis Impound Lot, 465 Klinke Ave., indicated its staff sent Thomas what's called a "C-Letter," postmarked four days after her son's death (May 14, 2011). The letter informed her that her car was on the lot and to claim it within 30 days.