After months of investigation into the December 2022 overdose death of a woman, three people have been arrested on charges of second-degree murder and distribution of drugs.
Jailed are Tamara Sue Morales, 56, of Portland, Tennessee, her daughter, Alexandra Guerriero, 31, of Nashville, and Guerriero’s boyfriend, Maxwell Delancy, 33, of Nashville.
Police say the three defendants had contact with Nashvillian Jamie Hughes, 43, and conspired together to sell her a powder substance containing fentanyl. The narcotic sale is believed to have taken place at a Wallace Road motel on December 21, 2022. Hughes was found dead inside her Belmont-Hillsboro area home the following day.
Delancy was taken into custody Thursday afternoon at a Hermitage area motel after detectives from the Hermitage Precinct’s Field Intelligence Team spotted him at an area gas station and followed the vehicle to the motel.
As Delancy was being taken into custody, members of the 18th Judicial Drug Task Force in Sumner County arrested Morales at her Portland, Tennessee residence.
Guerriero was arrested by Specialized Investigations Division detectives at a Hermitage area apartment complex.
Bond for Morales, Guerriero and Delancy was set by a Criminal Court judge at $125,000 each. Cato is jailed in lieu of $151,000 bond.
The Neighborhood Safety Unit works to identify those persons who sell dangerous fentanyl to fatal overdose victims, and then collaborates with the District Attorney’s Office to bring prosecutions whenever possible.
