Madison Shed Found Full of Stolen Goods From Across Midstate

MADISON, TN — A storage shed behind a home in Madison was packed nearly to the rafters with hundreds of thousands of dollars of items police say are connected to burglaries across the Midstate.

According to WKRN, Metro Police responded to a disturbance call at a house off East Campbell in Madison. When they arrived, a man — later identified as Marty Marion — sped away with a trailer in tow. When police searched the storage shed from which he fled, in addition to thousands of dollars worth of power tools, they found laptops bearing "Property of U.S. Government" stamps.

Goodlettsville Police loaded up the contents of the shed in some city dump trucks and a detective from that department told Channel 2 the laptops are likely connected to a recent burglary from a hotel parking lot.

Det. Les Carlisle told the station National Guardsmen on their way from Texas to West Virginia were staying at a Hampton Inn August 21. They woke up to find their trailer, which contained computer monitors and eight laptops the soldiers use for training, had been broken into.

The serial numbers on the computer equipment found in the shed match the serial numbers of the items stolen from the Guardsmen.

Carlisle said the items found could be connected to burglaries in Nashville, Goodlettsville and Brentwood.

Marion is charged with theft over $60,000, driving on a revoked license, drug paraphernalia and evading arrest. The man from whom he rented the shed told News 2 that he believed Marion was a "junker" selling items from estate sales and the like.

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