Police officer helped steal thousands in Crime Stoppers rewards

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — A police officer helped steal Crime Stoppers reward money totaling more than $18,000.

That officer pleaded guilty to the crime this summer, but it's been kept under wraps — that's until WREG Investigators uncovered federal records.

According to the federal court records, since 2018, Arica Hutchison was one of two officers assigned to sort through Crime Stoppers tips and then give that information to the investigators. That investigator documents the usefulness of that tip in a database...