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MEMPHIS, Tenn.– There is help for apartments like Peppertree that want to provide a safe home for tenants. Since 2013, Safeways has been giving guidance to apartments all across the city. Janine Heiner, the former director of Safeways, talked with WREG in September and said TESCO, the company managing Peppertree, started the Safeways programs in […]

The long-troubled Peppertree Apartments are under a temporary injunction that stops any new business right now. In environmental court on Monday, the judge reset that case for Thursday morning Shelby County’s District Attorney said police have responded to more than 1,500 calls for service over the past 20 months at peppertree. That’s just one of […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Nearly a week after a judge declared the property a public nuisance, the owners of the Peppertree Apartments shared their side of the story in court. Prosecutors said the complex is a clear danger to the community. Police said they’re called to Peppertree all the time, stating that there have been more […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It’s not just crime that residents at the Peppertree Apartments, where law enforcement served a nuisance order this week, have complained about. Those unsafe living conditions also extend to the property itself, and records WREG just obtained show that, like in the past, residents continue to ask for help and change. City […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Some Peppertree Apartment residents are being forced to find a new place to live after the crime-ridden Whitehaven complex is declared a public nuisance. Peppertree is a federally subsidized apartment complex that was built back in 1972. As part of the nuisance action, Peppertree is not allowed to let new tenants move […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Fire Department responded to an apartment fire late Monday night at the PepperTree apartments in Whitehaven. That fire burned for hours, and it is still smoldering into the morning.   The fire eventually spread to two more buildings. One woman, age 56, had to jump from a second-floor balcony and broke her […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A fire tore through an apartment complex Monday night in Whitehaven, leaving 10 units inside the PepperTree apartments are either badly damaged or a destroyed. Memphis Fire Department investigators said Tuesday the fire was intentionally set in apartment No. 7. The fire is still under investigation. At least 11 families are receiving […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Residents of Peppertree Apartments in Whitehaven have been crying out about crime for years, and now several families are homeless after an arson fire Tuesday. Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich has heard those cries as loud as anyone. She says she and Memphis police are frustrated. As District Attorney, she can […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — For many residents of the PepperTree apartments, Tuesday was tough. They lost all they own in a devastating fire and have nowhere else to go. “We can’t take no more. We don’t bother nobody over here,” said Anderlyn Hunter, who didn’t expect to come home on her birthday to find flames. “I […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Officers who opened fire and killed a suspect in a South Memphis mobile home park in 2019 were justified under criminal law, Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich said Thursday. Willie Hudson, 33, was killed as the multi-agency gang unit served a felony arrest warrant on a home on Haven Circle. […]

A Memphis apartment complex continues to be riddled with gun violence with numberous incidents happening within the last week alone.