Crime report: Donation jar among victims

Police still offering $1000 reward
I hope George Whobrey, arrested for taking a donation jar with cash from the Moore's Lane Mapco on July 29, really needed the cash.
The crime was just one of several included on the just-released Brentwood Crime Report covering the last two weeks. Capt. Jeff Hughes has been in training and unavailable to file the report until today.
He was still in town, however, and in the office preparing for his conference, when the call came in July 25 for a burglary in progress on Brentwood Parkway. It turned out to be the burglary that stopped life in Brentwood at the corner of Franklin Road and Old Hickory Boulevard that afternoon for several hours while lookie loos kept watch on the police action and response from both BPD and Metro officers. The officers' actions led to the arrest of Thomas Stoll.
The crime report also includes the previously reported actions on July 26 that led to the arrest of Mitchell Clemons, Abanzer Tsegaye and a juvenile for a residential burglary on Manley Drive. A search for the suspects in west Brentwood neighborhoods and an automated telephone call from the police department had residents on alert. (http://tinyurl.com/BWarrests)
Chief Ricky Watson told me last week that he thinks at least one other burglar or team of burglars is responsible for some of the recently reported burglaries. Capt. Hughes told me on Tuesday, however, that all has been quiet in the last week, so either they are laying low after learning about the all-out police response relating to the other cases, or perhaps they have moved on. Both officers stressed the importance of citizens staying on alert, locking homes and cars, and always calling the department if you see any suspicious activity. Quick action by the victims in the July 25 and 26 cases helped lead to the subsequent arrests.
Other recent crimes reported include:
Power tools and camera equipment were taken from a Davis Drive home. Two suspects have been identified. Power tools and a generator taken from a garage in a vacant house on Brunswick Drive late July 30 or early July 31.
Five thefts from motor vehicles were reported between July 26 and Aug. 4. In four cases, the vehicles were unlocked.
A GPS, USB cable transmitter were taken from a vehicle on Southerland Place in the Mayfield subivision. A radar detector and CDs were taken during the same time frame from a vehicle on nearby Meadowlawn Drive. A GPS and iPod were taken from a vehicle parked on River Oaks' Paddock Place between July 30 and July 31, and a purse and checks were taken from a car parked at the Franklin Road Exxon in north Brentwood on Aug. 4.
On July 27, two vehicles parked at 200 Powell Place in Maryland Farms had their catalytic converters cut off .
No robberies were reported, but eight incidences of general theft were. They include:
A pipe cutter, wrenches and a bucket taken from an unlocked garage between July 13 and July 27 at a Woodland Hills home; credit and debit cards taken from a purse in the Pear Tree Avenue office on July 27; a wallet and its contents taken from a purse while the victim shopped at the Franklin Road Kroger.
Arrests were made and suspects named in two separate shoplifting cases at Ross Dress for Less on Galleria Boulevard and suspects have been named in two cases involving theft of company funds.
The city itself was a victim, when someone forced open the front door of the building at Crockett Park. Nothing was reported taken. And between July 29 and 30, a lawnmower was taken from a storage unit behind Glover and Glover on Wilson Pike Circle following a forced entry. It was later recovered.
Recent vandalism cases still under investigation
The city is offering at $1000 reward for information leading to the arrests of suspects in several vandalism crimes included in the report.
Twenty-nine mailboxes were damaged on Moores Lane, Gordon Petty Drive, Maryland Lane and Covington Drive in Brenthaven between July 27 and July 29. During that same time period, windows were broken out of several cars in the Brentwood Pointe condominium complex. A window was also broken out of a vehicle on Shady Place, also in Brenthaven, between July 27 and 28.
And in yet another disgusting report of vandalism in Oak Hall, feces was spread on another Ansley Drive resident's front door.
If you have any information about these incidents, please share it with the Brentwood Police Department at 371-0160 (http://tinyurl.com/BWreward). It seems like only arrests and prosecution will stop some of these "pranks" that are not funny at all.

Home burglary suspects in custody

Two days, two crimes, five arrests
The Brentwood Police Department has released details on two crimes, and subsequent arrests, from incidents occurring this past weekend.
Three arrests were made late Sunday night in connection to a burglary earlier in the day in west Brentwood's Hillview Estates subdivision. During their investigation, Brentwood investigators recovered a large quantity of stolen property believed taken during more than 15 recent home burglaries in Brentwood, Metro Nashville, and Williamson County.
Mitchell Henry Clemons, 18; Abanzer Tsegay, 18, and a 15-year-old juvenile, were arrested in South Nashville with the help of the Metro Police Department. All were charged with aggravated burglary.
Sunday's crime was reported at approximately 4:30 p.m. when Brentwood Police responded to a “burglary in progress” call at 1020 Manley Lane. Upon returning home, the victim observed three male subjects standing near a vehicle backed up to the home's garage. The subjects abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot.
A rear door to the home had been forced open. Property taken from the residence was recovered in the vehicle left at the scene.
The Brentwood Police would like to acknowledge the assistance provided by the Metro Police Department K-9 unit and the Williamson County Sheriff’s Department K-9 unit. Both assisted in the initial search of the area.
On Saturday afternoon, again with the help of Metro Police, two arrests were made, one in connection with a home burglary earlier in the day on Brentwood Parkway. Taken into custody were Thomas Eugene Stoll, 38, and Joy Dawn Ennis, 46, both of Bowling Green, Ky.
The Brentwood Police Department charged Stoll with aggravated burglary and theft. Ennis was charged by the Metro Police Department on unrelated charges.
The two were arrested at 800 Old Hickory Blvd. after Brentwood investigators, the Metro Police Department Patrol, K-9 Division, and the Tennessee Department of Safety narrowed their search to the vacant house just west of the Shell station near the intersection of Franklin Road and Old Hickory Boulevard.
Saturday's crime, a "burglary in progress call," was reported just after noon, when the victim observed a male subject exit her residence and flee the scene on a bicycle. She also recognized that a bag he was carrying. A rear door had been forced open for entry.
Property taken from the residence, and the bicycle the subject was riding, was recovered, at the Old Hickory house.

Good news: Crime light this week

After a series of recent residential burglaries and vandalism reports, this week's Brentwood crime report only lists one residential attempted burglarly and luckily for the Plantation Drive resident, nothing was taken.
In fact, the entire report, released this afternoon by Capt. Jeff Hughes, was light -- which is good news to report.
In general thefts, a GPS device and two flash drives were taken Monday from a room at the Residence Inn in Maryland Farms but the property was returned. A couple are suspected of shoplifting Coca-Colas from the Moore's Lane Mapco on Monday; and a utility trailer was taken from a Maryland Farms business on Harpeth Drive between Monday and Tuesday.
Two incidences of vandalism were investigated. The first involved a spray-painted stop sign on Gracelawn Drive in Hillview Estates; the second was a keyed vehicle on Heritage Drive in Brent Meade sometime on Wednesday.
A driver's side window was broken and a laptop, satellite radio and GPS were taken from a car in the Synergy Complex off Franklin Road on Thursday.
If you have information on any of these crimes, please contact the Brentwood Police Department at 371-0160.

Next RAD course starts Aug. 3
Have a friend or daughter headed off to college next month? Consider signing her and her friends up for the Brentwood Police Department's next Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) class which begins in early August.
The three-night, nine-hour course is free for women ages 13 and over. It runs 6-9 p.m. Aug. 3-6 at Safety Center East, 1300 Sunset Road (just across from the Governor's Club).
To register or for further information, call Officer Mark Wood at 615-371-2267 or e-mail woodm@brentwood-tn.org

Latest Crime Report just in

Yesterday's residential burglary of a Liberty Church Road home leads the newest crime report just released by Capt. Jeff Hughes of the Brentwood Police Department.
No suspects are identified in the theft of jewelry and cash from the home, whose front door was damaged to gain entry. (Learn more at http://tinyurl.com/BWburglary)

Two thefts from motor vehicles were reported:

• A GPS was taken from a car parked at Auto Advantage on Church Street between Monday and Tuesday.
• Jewelry was taken from an unlocked car parked on Shenandoah Drive in the Carondelet subdivision Saturday. A witness reports seeing two men going through vehicles.

In the vandalism report:

• The playground slide at Kenrose Elementary School was damaged and other equipment was "tagged" with markers. The date of the vandalism is unclear.
• An arrest was made in the vandalism of a Turtle Creek Drive front door in the Belle Rive subdivision on Tuesday.

In the general theft category:

• A wallet and its contents were taken from a purse while the victim was shopping at Fresh Market on July 2.
• Twenty minutes later, at the Brentwood Place Kroger, a wallet was reported taken from a purse that had been left in a restroom
• And just an hour after that, a purse and its contents were taken from a shopper at Costco on Seaboard Lane. No suspects are listed in any of these cases.
• Also, five juveniles have been identified and issued a criminal Trespass Warrant after cigar, tobacco, drink and gum were shoplifted from the Concord Market on Wilson Pike and Concord Road.

If you have information on any of these crimes, or are the victim of a crime, call the Brentwood Police Department at 371-0160. In the case of a life-threatening emergency, call 9-1-1.

Crime Report, Part 2...

It's not everyday you get two crime reports. Nope, crime's not rampant in the big city. Instead you can chalk up the delay in posting the first one to the recent vacation days I took for our big family wedding.
Here is the latest report, released just minutes ago by Capt. Jeff Hughes of the Brentwood Police Department:

• A computer, jewelry, cash and other items were taken from a residence on Bunkerhill Road in the Brentwood South neighborhood on Wednesday (July 1).
• Our local YMCAs were again targeted. At the Brentwood Y on Concord Road, a purse and its contents were taken from a car after the passenger side window was broken out. At the Maryland Farms Y, a driver's side window was broken out of a car and a camera, purse and contents were taken. The victim reported to police she saw two white males and one white female walking around the parking lot upon arrival. Both thefts were reported on June 25th.

Several cases of vandalism have been reported in the past week:

• Sometime June 24-25, garage doors were spray painted on a Devens Drive home in Brenthaven.
• On Church Street E. during the night of June 25-26, a rock was thrown through a second-floor window..
• A wallet and its contents were stolen from a purse while the victim attended a June 27 party on Beauregard Lane in the Brentwood Hills subdivision.
• And two cars at Landrover of Nashville on Cadillac Drive were egged on consecutive nights, June 29 and 30.

Four general thefts were reported:

• A Toshiba projector was taken from rental property on Childe Harolds Circle between June 18 and 21 in the FountainBrooke subdivision.
• Jewelry was reported taken from a residence on Atherton Court between December '08 and June 25. Workers are suspected.
• A deposit was missing from a safe at the Red Roof Inn on Moores Lane. Employees are listed as suspects.
• And between June 22 and July 1, money was taken from a safe on Arcaro Place in Maryland Farms. Five victims are listed; five people have access to the safe.

If you have information on any of these crimes, or are yourself a crime victim, call the Brentwood Police Department at 371-0160. If you experience a true emergency, call 9-1-1.

Please remember to always lock your car doors and to take all valuables with you, or lock them out of sight and in your trunk.