The male juvenile was taken into custody without incident.
Also during the ceremony, Megan Cox was recognized as Dispatcher of the Year and James Scott was recognized as Officer of the Year.
Interim Chief Davis has been in law enforcement for 22 years and has worked for the La Vergne Police Department for 17 years.
The proclamation was presented to Chief Ronny Beasley at the Board of Mayor and Aldermen workshop on October 1.
He was recently retired from the Tennessee Highway Patrol after serving there for 33 years and earning the rank of colonel.
A 20-year Rutherford County Sheriff's Office veteran, the department's lead narcotics detective, was fired amidst two investigations.
Inspired by President Donald Trump's pardon of Joe Arpaio, disgraced former Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold wants one too.
The TBI is investigating a top drug detective for the Rutherford County Sheriff's Department.
A 16-year-old driving his aunt's car led police on a chase from La Vergne into Nashville and then crashed into an Antioch mailbox.
Smyrna Police are investigating an early Friday morning shooting near a President Place sports bar that left one person dead.
ATM Skimmer Found At Smyrna Gas Station
Just days after its unveiling, Smyrna's memorial to fallen Blue Angel Capt. Jeff Kuss was vandalized overnight Thursday.
A 16-year-old girl has been missing from her Smyrna home since Tuesday.
A suspicious package that caused an evacuation at the La Vergne Walmart turned out to be a "briefcase full of clothes," police say.
A motorcyclist was killed and his passenger injured after clipping a pick-up truck in Smyrna Saturday.
A Murfreesboro pastor says a man who killed his wife and her parents before killing himself sent text messages asking for forgiveness.
A La Vergne man alleged to have raped an 18-year-old with cerebral palsy reportedly shot himself as police arrived to confront him.
A man shot his wife, her father and stepmother before turning a gun on himself Monday, according to Rutherford County authorities.
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La Vergne Police are searching for carjackers who stole a Dodge Challenger early Wednesday.
Metro Police said a 20-year-old Smyrna man died after crashing a stolen car into a Bell Road utility pole Sunday.
Christopher Phiouthong, burnt with acid by an attacker at his Smyrna home in April, is improving, but faces a tough road, his pastor says.
A man with "multiple warrants" led police on a chase from La Vergne and across the county line into Metro, police say.
A 17-year-old La Vergne High School student was killed during an apparent robbery set-up Monday night.
Businesses along La Vergne's Waldron Road may team up in a neighborhood watch to combat a recent string of stick-ups.
A Metro Police sergeant is on desk duty following an arrest in La Vergne over the weekend.
Smoke from a Saturday morning house fire in La Vergne could be seen for miles.
More than 58,000 illegally produced Xanax and more than a pound of alprazolam were seized at two Rutherford County locations.
Christopher Phiouthong has burns from a highly corrosive acid over 60 percent of his body following an attack in his Smyrna home.
The TBI continues to investigate after a teenager was shot while fleeing a stop by La Vergne Police.
The TBI is investigating after a La Vergne police officer shot a man allegedly fleeing a traffic stop.
Smyrna Police are looking for the person who attacked a man inside his home Thursday.
Three men face murder charges of a La Vergne man found partially burned in woods outside of Dalton, Ga. in 2017.
Smyrna Police said an armed man barricaded inside a home surrendered late Monday morning.
A La Vergne man faces numerous drug charges after investigators say they found cocaine and marijuana inside his home.
La Vergne Police arrested a man wanted in Texas for child sexual abuse Friday.
A federal grand jury indicted four Nashville men Wednesday in five Tennessee and Kentucky gun store robberies.
A pair of pickpockets used a bump-and-grab to snatch a man's wallet at the Smyrna Cracker Barrel, police said.
La Vergne Police arrested a man wanted in connection with a Goodlettsville AMBER alert and a Wilson County high-speed chase.
A woman surrendered to La Vergne Police after barricading herself inside a home with a gun Saturday.