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    November 05

    Trooper Calvin Jenks Re-Post from January

    Back in January I posted this news Story, and it looks like I have just got an Update from a TN trooper’s wife. I thought it would be good to put it at the top of the page again, seeing how we just had a shooting in our jurisdiction, and this one is about to go to trial.
    Here is what the TN Troopers Wife is telling me

     

    TN Troopers Wife

    Thank you so much for posting this. It's a wonderful feeling knowing everyone mourned the loss of Calvin, as we did. I am married to a TN State Trooper & I am also a police dispatcher for a county agency. The loss of Calvin hit us hard! Just wanted to give you an update....The trial is set to start December 10, 2008. Please keep the Jenks' family & his THP family in your thoughts & prayers during this time. Sarah Beth, his wife, has been at every hearing & will be in the court room while they show her husband's final moments on video. Please help keep her wrapped in love & prayer!! Thanks so much!!!

    October 24 3:13 PM

    TN Troopers Wife

    Sorry for the mistake on the date.....it will be December 10, 2007.

    October 24 3:14 PM
    (http://cid-28696383326b1923.spaces.live.com/)

     

    NASHVILLE (AP) - State officials said Sunday they had arrested two teens
    they believed were responsible for the killing of a state trooper who
    was shot during a traffic stop in western Tennessee.

    The 24-year-old trooper pulled over two men and was trying to get them
    out of the vehicle Saturday night when he was shot twice, according to
    footage from the patrol car's video camera. At least one bullet struck
    him in the head, said Mike Browning, a Department of Safety spokesman.

    On Sunday, Alejandro Guana, 17, and Orlando Garcia, 19, were arrested
    without incident at a hotel near downtown Nashville, Tennessee Bureau of
    Investigation spokeswoman Jennifer Johnson said.

    "After interviewing the two men we feel confident we have the two people
    in custody that murdered the state trooper," TBI director Mark Gwyn
    said.

    Hunters found Trooper Calvin Jenks' body beside his patrol car near the
    intersection of two state highways, Browning said.

    Authorities believed the suspects were carrying drugs and drove toward
    Nashville after the shooting in Tipton County, just north of Memphis,
    Browning said before Sunday's arrests.

    Jenks smelled marijuana on the driver, Browning said. When Jenks asked
    the man whether he had drugs in the car, the suspect eventually admitted
    there were drugs in the center console, Browning said.

    Jenks went back to the passenger and asked him whether he had drugs. The
    man said he didn't, then opened fire, Browning said.
    Investigators found what they believe is Jenks' flashlight in a garbage
    can at a Wal-Mart in Brownsville, 13 miles east of the scene of the
    shooting.

    Jenks, 24, had been a trooper for two years and transferred to the
    Tipton area from Marshall County in 2005 to be closer to his new wife,
    he said.