14-Year-Olds Charged In Charlotte Pike Pawn Shop Stick-Up

NASHVILLE, TN — Metro Police — with the help of a K9 officer — arrested a pair of 14-year-old suspects for the armed robbery of a Charlotte Pike pawn shop.

At 10:40 a.m. Saturday, Daylan White, of 26th Avenue North, and Lacories Howse, of Briarwick Drive, both 14, entered the Cash America pawn shop near the intersection of Charlotte and White Bridge Road and within sight of the West Precinct, according to investigators. (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Middle Tennessee Patch morning newsletter.)

White, who was armed with a loaded 9-millimeter semi-automatic pistol, and Howse allegedly ordered everyone to the ground and directed a clerk to open the cash drawer and place eight pistols from the store's inventory into a backpack.

The teens ran towards the nearby greenway and after human officers established a perimeter, K9 officer Turbo and two-legged partner Jaime Scruggs began tracking the pair. At 11 a.m., Turbo apprehended Howse, who was carrying the backpack of guns and cash. Officers located White in a nearby drainage tunnel and he surrendered without incident at 11:16 a.m. Turbo then went into the tunnel and found the loaded 9 millimeter pistol used in the robbery, according to police.

White and Howse were booked into juvenile detention on a charge of aggravated robbery.

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