U.S. Marshals arrested Da’Jon Graham, 32, of Detroit on Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee. Graham was wanted on a first-degree murder warrant and weapons charges out of Wayne County that were issued on August 11, 2025. Members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force located him at a business on Smith Springs Road and took him into custody without incident.
He was booked into the Davidson County Jail, where he is being held as he awaits extradition back to Michigan to face charges in Detroit. Federal authorities confirmed the arrest was carried out safely and without resistance, ending a month-long search for the fugitive.
Da’Jon Graham was no stranger to Tennessee law enforcement. Records reviewed by Metro Detroit Crime Report show Graham had a pattern of arrests in Nashville dating back a decade before U.S. Marshals caught up with him this week.
Court records from Davidson County reveal Graham was first charged in January 2015 with driving without a license. He was booked on a $2,000 bond, and though the case was ultimately dismissed, he was ordered to pay court costs that remain outstanding today.
In August 2016, Graham was arrested again, this time for criminal impersonation. That charge stuck. He was convicted on September 28, 2016 and hit with over $500 in fines that also remain unpaid. It was the only case in Tennessee where he was found guilty, but it would not be his last brush with the law.
Within days of that arrest, Graham picked up drug-related charges for unlawful use of drug paraphernalia and possession or casual exchange. Both cases carried $2,500 bonds, but prosecutors later dismissed them at the state’s request.
Altogether, Nashville records show Graham had at least four separate criminal cases between 2015 and 2016, ranging from traffic offenses to drugs and identity crimes. Despite the dismissals, the paper trail paints a picture of a man who was already slipping into a cycle of arrests and courtrooms long before Detroit prosecutors charged him with murder this summer.
What makes this case especially striking is how Graham managed to resurface in the same city where he had been arrested years earlier. While his Nashville cases were closed, they show a consistent history of legal problems. Now, instead of misdemeanor fines and dismissed charges, Graham faces the possibility of life in prison.
