NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Police officers may see something different every day on the job, but one thing stays consistent for some Middle Tennessee departments — suspects from other counties.

The Mt. Juliet Police Department calls it "cross-county crime," and they're not the only ones dealing with it.

The MJPD said that within the first five months of this year, they've arrested 337 people. Three hundred and five of those people — or 91% — were non-residents. Police said that many of those non-residents were from Nashville.

"We are encountering these individuals are obviously wanted elsewhere happen to be in our community," Deputy Chief of the MJPD, Tyler Chandler, told News 2. "They discover that they're wanted and, of course, we apprehend them on those warrants."

Chandler said that apprehending suspects is the result of good police work and license plate recognition technology. Chandler told News 2 that the MJPD is thankful for the city's investment in LPR technology.

Another community dealing with "cross-county crime" is Clarksville.

"We've seen a lot of people that are coming up from south of Clarksville that are breaking into vehicles and stealing vehicles and they're ending up in the Nashville area," Scott Beaubien, the public information officer for the Clarksville Police Department, said.

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