The Jefferson City Police Department is asking the public to help identify a person shown in a photograph.
An appeal from East Tennessee Valley Crime Stoppers on Facebook asks for help identifying a person sought by the Jefferson City Police Department.
How to Submit a Tip
East Tennessee Valley Crime Stoppers offers several ways to submit tips, including calling 877-363-8847 or texting ETTIPS to 738477. Tips can also be submitted through the organization's website or its P3Tips mobile app. Crime Stoppers allows tipsters to remain anonymous throughout the process.
Crime Stoppers offers potential cash rewards for tips that lead to an arrest. The organization's own site states that rewards of up to $2,000 are available for tips tied to an arrest or other qualifying recoveries, though a separate page on the same site lists a cap of $1,000 for anonymous callers — a discrepancy that isn't resolved in the materials reviewed. Crime Stoppers has also stated that it pays rewards only for tips submitted anonymously and directly to the organization, rather than through other channels.
The organization lists 865-215-7165 as a tip-line number, alongside its website and P3 Tips app as alternative options. Crime Stoppers says it operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, year-round, so tipsters aren't limited to business hours.
Part of a Broader Local Effort
East Tennessee Valley Crime Stoppers launched on May 1, 2021, as a joint effort between Knoxville city leadership and the Knoxville Police Department. The program has grown into a regional resource that local departments, including Jefferson City's, now lean on for public appeals like this one.
The program's cumulative numbers give some sense of its reach: by May 31, 2026, East Tennessee Valley Crime Stoppers had logged 625 arrests, 425 cleared cases, $110,575 in cash rewards paid out, and $329,379 in recovered property and drugs, according to Hoodline's earlier reporting. That same reporting noted that Crime Stoppers caps its standard cash reward at $2,000, but cases involving crimes against children or first responders can qualify for rewards of up to $4,000, with the organization confirming it will double the reward in those circumstances.
This isn't the first time the organization has put out a public call to identify someone from an image. Hoodline previously reported on a similar appeal asking anyone in the Knoxville area who recognized people shown in a Facebook video, or who knew their whereabouts, to come forward. That request similarly pointed tipsters toward the P3 Tips app, the Crime Stoppers website, phone lines, and text options.
For now, the identity of the person in the Jefferson City photograph remains unknown, and the reason behind the police department's request has not been disclosed. Anyone who recognizes the individual is encouraged to submit a tip through Crime Stoppers.
