Officer's quick work help ends crime spree

I could make this story sound really exciting.
“Brentwood cop foils jewelry heist!”
“Elizabeth Taylor would be proud of Officer Dooley!”
“Diamonds not two guys best friend"
But no. Brentwood Police Officer Jeff Dooley has asked me not to make him out as a hero. He says he just happened to be at the right place at the right time to help catch some bad guys who had decided to shop at Genesis Diamonds on Mallory Lane without the benefit of their own money or credit cards.
Here’s the story: On April 3, the store’s manager was in the middle of the road and Dooley stopped to see what was happening.
He told the officer he thought the customers in his store were anything but. Apparently they had been in earlier casing it out. Armed with physical descriptions of the men, Dooley found a place he could watch what was happening without being seen.
When the suspects left, Dooley followed them and found out the tags didn’t match the vehicle they were driving. In fact, they were stolen.
“It just snowballed from there,” Dooley told me.
Today Daryl Lamont Foster and Onoriode Lucky Uloho have both have been charged with four car burglaries, identity theft, credit card fraud and theft over $10,000.
Both been through General Sessions court and bound over to the Grand Jury.
But there’s more.
“About two weeks ago I was contacted and told that because of our arrests here and similar crimes all over the country, Foster and Uloho, along with others arrested by the Detroit FBI task force on identity theft, will be presented to the U.S. Attorney handling the Detroit Task Force investigations for federal prosecution,” Brentwood Detective Sergeant Alan Keller shared with me.
Locally, the two have also been charged by the Hendersonville Police Department for similar crimes that occurred in that department’s jurisdiction.
“We fully expect that all charges will be consolidated under federal prosecution,” Keller stated.
In the meantime, Dooley continues to play down his role in the matter, though Mayor Betsy Crossley singled him out at the June 8 City Commission meeting by reading a letter from Genesis Diamonds congratulation the city on the work of its force and, in particular, Officer Dooley.
“There are a lot of very good officers that come to work everyday here and put their lives on the line and give up time with their families to help the citizens of this community. Like we spoke about on the phone, it’s all about being at the right place at the right time, and knowing what to do when you get to there,” Dooley followed up in an email to me last week.
“I appreciate the kudos, but I was doing what the citizens of Brentwood pay me to do, catch the criminals and prosecute them for their actions. This just happened to evolve into a major case.”
So congratulations and thanks to all the officers who work so hard to keep our crime rate so low.