Crime & Safety
Juvenile Crime Task Force Arrests 2 17-Year-Old Brothers For Gun Crimes And Other Offenses
One is charged with auto theft, unlawful gun possession, aggravated assault and vehicle burglary. Other brother is charged with gun theft.
April 18, 2020
Juvenile Crime Task Force officers late Thursday night seized three guns, one of them stolen in a Nashville home burglary, from two 17-year-old brothers while investigating one of them for stealing a pickup truck on Monday.
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Officers came upon the truck, stolen from a residence on Mossdale Drive, unoccupied and parked outside a home on Willow Trace Court (the driver of the truck led Belle Meade police on a pursuit earlier in the day). Officers knocked on the door of the home and inquired of the teens’ mother about the truck and whether her sons had guns in the house. One of the teens admitted to his mother that he had a pistol under his bed. The parties were then detained while officers obtained a search warrant.
During the search, Task Force officers found a nine millimeter semi-automatic pistol loaded with one round in the chamber and 23 rounds in the magazine under the bed of one teen. Also found were an AR-15 rifle and a Remington R25 rifle loaded with one round in the chamber and nine rounds in the magazine (the Remington rifle was stolen during a 2013 home burglary on Jessie Drive in South Nashville). The other brother admitted that the rifles were his. Another interesting find: 16 vehicle keys, including one to the stolen pickup truck parked outside.
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Both of the 17-year-olds were taken to juvenile detention. One is charged with auto theft (he admitted to stealing the pickup truck), unlawful gun possession, aggravated assault and vehicle burglary. The aggravated assault and vehicle burglary charges stem from a case on April 10 where a homeowner on Vernon Avenue caught several young men going through his vehicle at 2 a.m. One of them opened fire on the homeowner as they fled.
The other brother is charged with gun theft (in regard to the Remington rifle) and unlawful gun possession.
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