Smithville Man Wanted in $80,000 Franklin Jewelry Heist

November 2, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

An 18 year old Smithville man who allegedly stole $80,000 worth of jewelry last Friday at a store in CoolSprings Galleria is wanted by the Franklin Police Department.

The incident happened Oct. 26 at 4:45 p.m., when police said the suspect snatched a display tray of about a dozen tennis bracelets from the hands of a salesperson in Grogan Jewelers.

Franklin Police have identified the suspect as 18-year-old Jario Godinez of Smithville. Godinez knows that he is wanted, and police now consider him a fugitive. A Crime Stoppers cash reward is being offered to anyone who provides information leading to Godinez’s capture. Call 615-794-4000

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November 2, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

The DeKalb County Tigers will travel to Nashville tonight hoping to upset the state’s 7^th ranked Maplewood High School Panthers in the first round of the Class 4A TSSAA Play-Offs.

The Tigers enter the game at 3-7 overall and the fourth place team from Region 3. The Panthers are 9-1 overall and finished first in Region 4.

Tiger Coach Steve Trapp said he has encouraged his team to put the regular season behind them and focus on the Panthers.

“They need to understand that this is the play-offs and everything that happened during the regular season is done and gone. The bottom line is we have achieved a team goal by getting into the play-offs. We would have liked to go into it with a home seed and somebody coming to play us but this is the road we paved for ourselves. Once you get into the post season its new but being a four seed going against a one seed has its challenges and there is no doubt with what we put on the field for the first 10 games this year there is probably not a lot of positive reactions about the capabilities we have against Maplewood but what is most important is what we believe as a team and we have worked extremely hard this week preaching to these guys what kind of football game we must have so I am confident they will go out here tonight and fight and give us everything they’ve got and then we will see where we are at the end of the game,” said Coach Trapp.

Kick-off will be tonight at 7 p.m. If you are traveling to the game check the google map on the local sports page of the WJLE website for directions to Maplewood High School.

WJLE’s pre-game shows begin with “Coach to Coach” at 5 p.m. featuring former coaches Doug Matthews, Dave McGinnis, and broadcaster Larry Stone.

“Tiger Talk” begins at 6:30 p.m. featuring DCHS Coach Steve Trapp and Tiger Football Players Evan Jones, Tre Ladet, and Axel Aldino. John Pryor, the Voice of the Tigers, is the host of the program.

WJLE’s “LIVE” play by play coverage starts at 7 p.m.

LISTEN LIVE ON WJLE AM 1480/ FM 101.7 and LIVE STREAMING at www.wjle.com.

November 1, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

Thursday, the last day of early voting for the November 6 elections, was by far the largest single day turnout during the two week period for casting ballots.

364 people voted Thursday and all but 10 were in person. The others were by absentee. That brings the total number of early voters from October 17 to November 1 to 3,114, almost doubling the 1,660 early voting turnout during the mid terms of November 2014 in DeKalb County and easily surpassing the 2,361 number of early voters during the August, 2018 election. Two years ago in the November 2016 Presidential Election 3,992 voted early in DeKalb County.

Election day voting on Tuesday, November 6 is 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. at all 15 precincts in the county.

Voters will elect a Governor, U.S. Senator, Congressman in the 6^th District, State Senator in District 17, and State Representatives in Districts 40 & 46.

WJLE will have LIVE election return coverage on the local, state and national scene beginning Tuesday night at 7 p.m. on AM 1480/FM 101.7 and LIVE streaming at www.wjle.com