Crime & Safety
Mom, Daughter Arrested With Heroin, Cocaine, Handgun: Nashville Police
Gang Unit detectives arrested a mother and daughter at a Talbot's Corner home, seizing drugs and a handgun.
NASHVILLE, TN — Metro Police arrested a mother-and-daughter team Tuesday after allegedly finding 83 grams of cocaine, 33 grams of heroin and a handgun inside a Talbot's Corner home.
Gang Unit detectives served a search warrant on the Dellway Vista Drive home of Erica Doss, 31, Tuesday afternoon. Inside they found Doss, three other women and an infant, according to an affidavit.
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Detectives say they found nine baggies of cocaine, a bag of heroin, $2,270 in cash, a ledger recording marijuana sales and a .45-caliber handgun.
The women told police that the drugs were not theirs and they had been left at the home by their "source."
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Both women were charged with possession of cocaine and heroin in a drug free school zone and various weapons charges.
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