MADISON, Tenn. (WTVF) — Authorities arrested Joseph Webster, 46, Thursday on multiple drug and gun charges. Webster was the first person in Nashville to be exonerated of murder when the DA’s Conviction Review Unit overturned his 2005 conviction in 2020 .

Webster had been serving a life sentence for a 2005 conviction in the 1998 murder of a man in the Napier-Sudekum community, which was vacated in 2020 after new witness accounts surfaced. He also has a prior felony cocaine possession conviction in 2002. The vacated murder case received widespread coverage at the time .

Thursday’s arrest followed a months-long MNPD narcotics investigation into fentanyl distribution out of Webster’s Canton Pass home. Detectives say he was selling fentanyl from the residence and took him into custody aft

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