Crime & Safety
Hermitage Couple Busted For Drugs With Kids In Apartment: Police
Metro Police say they found six grams of speedball and oxycodone inside a Hermitage apartment where children were present.
HERMITAGE, TN -- A Hermitage couple was arrested on drug and child endangerment charges Tuesday after detectives say they found a potent mix of cocaine and heroin along with oxycodone in an apartment with two young children.
Detectives executed a search warrant on the Bell Road apartment of Morgan Freeman and Charles Bradley, both 28, and found 6.74 grams of a powder testing positive for cocaine and heroin, oxycode and $3,800 cash. Investigators also found used scratch-off lottery tickets, which they allege were used to distribute the drugs.
The drugs were within reach of the two children in the apartment.
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Freeman and Bradley are both charged with six felony drug offenses, two misdemeanor drug offenses and child endangerment, also a misdemeanor.
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