KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE/WKRN) — The Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference has released its first immigration report, a compilation of data shared by law enforcement agencies detailing the number of people who were not lawfully present in the U.S. who were either charged with or convicted of a crime in the last three months of 2024.
The report features data for Oct. 1, 2024 through Dec. 31, 2024. According to a release from the conference, 73 of Tennessee’s 95 counties submitted their monthly report during one of the required reporting months, and 71 of those counties provided reports for all three months.
During the three-month period, there were approximately 3,854 total charges reported against 2,719 people who were not legally in the country, and 447 of those charges were violent offenses. Eleven of the charges during that reporting period were homicides.
The report also broke down the number of charges reported by county and offenses.
The county with the most charges against individuals who were not legally in the country listed was Davidson County with 796, followed by Knox County with 242, Sumner County with 212, and Rutherford County with 189. In other Middle Tennessee counties, the following number of charges were listed:
- Bedford County: No report received
- Benton County: No report received
- Cannon County: No report received
- Carroll County: 1
- Cheatham County: 7
- Clay County: 4
- Coffee County: 22
- Cumberland County: 23
- Decatur County: 0
- DeKalb County: 2
- Dickson County: 18
- Fentress County: No report received
- Franklin County: No report received
- Giles County: 9
- Grundy County: 1
- Henry County: 1
- Hickman County: 4
- Houston County: 0
- Humphreys County: 4
- Jackson County: No report received
- Lawrence County: 6
- Lewis County: No report received
- Lincoln County: 13
- Macon County: 13
- Marshall County: 0
- Maury County: 153
- Montgomery County: 47
- Moore County: 2
- Overton County: No report received
- Perry County: No report received
- Pickett County: No report received
- Putnam County: 29
- Robertson County: 98
- Smith County: 7
- Stewart County: 0
- Trousdale County: 1
- Van Buren County: 5
- Warren County: 20
- Wayne County: 20
- White County: 2
- Williamson County: 92
- Wilson County: 83
Of the most reported offenses, the top 10 list was led by driving under the influence charges (654); followed by driving without a license (549); traffic charges (533); and driving on a suspended, revoked, or cancelled license (243).
Domestic assault was the most frequent violent offense and the fifth most charged overall (154). Non-violent charges of public intoxication, failure to appear, violation of probation, and open container rounded out places six through nine on the list, with the violent offense of aggravated assault rounding out the list at 80 charges.
While there were 80 aggravated assault charges listed, the report also separated out domestic-related aggravated assaults with 27 charges reported and assault with 20 charges reported. Some of the notable violent crimes listed were:
- First-degree murder: 3
- Second-degree murder: 1
- Vehicular homicide: 7
- Rape of a child: 3
- Aggravated rape: 6
- Statutory rape: 9
- Sexual exploitation of a minor: 8
- Child abuse, neglect or endangerment: 21
- Reckless endangerment: 31
Although some of the reports did not include countries of origin, the most reported country of origin was Mexico (892), followed by Guatemala (564), Honduras (332), Venezuela (130), and El Salvador (86).
The new report is the first of its kind and was released in compliance with Public Charter 998 and state law. Follow this link to read the full report.
