Child found in roadway prompts welfare check

Heard on: Smith County Sheriff, Fire, and EMS Dispatch

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Can you get out to Close Range Road, 1043? I have a caller.

00:04

I got a 9-1-1.

00:06

There's a caller in the roadway.

00:08

Looks like he's not doing very well taking care of.

00:10

He's gonna turn back to get me a numeric.

00:13

Again, Close Range Road.

00:18

10-4.

00:23

This is a call for the area of (number withheld) South Spring.

00:31

Stand for (number withheld) South Spring.

00:32

139, 139.

00:46

Forty-one, be advised, it's going to be (number withheld).

00:50

It's going to be a brown trailer.

00:51

The caller did get the child out of the roadway and take it to the residence.

00:55

And there was a male individual there with another child.

00:58

So requested a welfare check.

00:59

Again, (number withheld).

2026-11-11 16:42 UTC

Welfare Check

Spring St, Carthage, TN 37030

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As discussed during the dispatch call, officers were sent to a possible welfare check near South Spring Street and Close Range Road after a caller reported a child in the roadway. The child was reportedly removed from the road and taken back to a nearby brown trailer, where a male was present with another child.