Teams are lining up for the fifth annual Phelps Security CrimeStoppers Golf Tournament set for Monday, September 19, 2022 at Windyke Country Club, but there still is time to enter a team.
Top-flight prizes are available that day to players.
A live auction at this year’s event will include a round of golf for four people, with one night’s accommodation, at the venerable Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Mississippi, and a second round of golf for four with golf carts at nearby Mossy Oak Golf Club. The gift provided by the clubs is worth an estimated $2,500.
Drawings will take place for other gifts worth between $50 and $400.
This year’s tournament is held in memory of Tom Panagon, a long-time CrimeStoppers Board member. The emcee at this year’s event — and captaining a team — is WMC-TV News anchor Joe Birch.
NOTE: The start time for this year’s event has been bumped forward to 1 p.m. That follows registration and lunch beginning at 11 a.m.
CrimeStoppers is indebted to our individual and corporate sponsors who have made the tournament possible. They include:
Phelps Security (Title Sponsor), Jane and Harvey Russell Charitable Foundation, Kathy and J.W. Gibson Charitable Foundation, An Anonymous Company, Lipscomb & Pitts, Dillard, HighBar Trading Company, My Town Roofing, Phelps Electric, Bill Hogue, Adele Landers in memory of Tom Panagon, JNJ Express, Buster’s, Tennessee Crown Distributing Co., Champion Promotions, Splash Creative, Watkins-Uiberall, HerbiSystems, JIM Promotions, Friends of Tom Panagon, The Pickering Firm, Anonymous in memory of Evonne Siemer, Joe’s Wines & Liquors, Crosstown Brewing Co., and the Family of Tom Panagon.
To enroll a team online go here.
Extra awards have been posted in
homicide and liquor store break-ins
The Memphis Area Liquor Retailers representing nearly 50 store owners in the city victimized by smash and grab break-ins since May has raised $25,000 for a special award to any citizen or citizens who help authorities arrest those responsible.
Owners hope citizens with information on the crimes and thieves will call the CrimeStoppers tip line, 528-CASH (2274). The Memphis Police Department has a squad of investigators looking into the burglaries.
Meanwhile, a $10,000 CrimeStoppers award is available to anyone with information that leads to an arrest in the murder of Terry Henderson Jr. during an apparent carjacking in Raleigh on Friday, August 12, 2022.
Henderson’s body was found in the street just before midnight at the intersection of Kerwin and Battlefield drives. He had been shot several times. His Nissan Maxima was found the next day outside the Breezy Point Apartment complex in Frayser.
An anonymous donor has put up $8,000. That will be combined with $2,000 regularly available from CrimeStoppers in homicide cases for a total of $10,000 cash award available to a successful tipster. All calls to the CrimeStoppers 528-CASH (2274) number are strictly anonymous.
Henderson worked for Youth Villages. He was the second staff member to die this year in unrelated incidents of violence.
