Armed Robbery

Suspect charged in home robbery (05/22/12)
A suspect in the robbery of a Shelbyville man at his home last Wednesday faces multiple charges. John Vincent Lovvorn, 20, of Martha Street is accused of taking $800 from a Bridlewood Drive resident while striking him in the face and taking his phone, police said...

Court denies appeal for 1997 convictions (02/14/12)
A state court has denied an appeal from a Bedford County man who pleaded guilty to charges 14 years ago. Michael Smythe had appealed a summary dismissal by Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell of a petition for post-conviction relief for convictions in 1997...

Two direct indictments presented to grand jury (01/24/12)
Two people had direct indictments presented to the Bedford County grand jury on Monday. Michael Tyrone Gant appeared before Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler on charges of theft under $500, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, possession of a weapon and possession of a firearm while committing a felony...

Bar owner robbed at knifepoint (01/24/12)
The owner of a Shelbyville bar was robbed of the night's proceeds at knifepoint early Saturday. "Don't do anything stupid. I want your money," the robber told Mary Thomason while holding a large butcher knife to her back as she was closing the Get Away Saloon, Sims Road, officer Gregg Loyd's report said...

Gunman robs pawn shop (01/15/12)
An armed man held up a clerk at Volunteer Financial Services on Elm Street at mid-morning Saturday, Shelbyville police said. The amount of money taken from the pawn shop and check cashing center by the suspect, who police said was carrying a black pistol, was not available by press time...

Robbery foiled by officers (12/14/11)
A man who thought he was luring an unsuspecting cell phone buyer into a robbery was surprised to be met by two detectives and a drug agent Monday. Christopher Alan Perry, 18, of Oakwood Place was taken into custody in a Madison Street convenience store by detectives Jason Kennedy of the Tullahoma Police Department and Sgt. Brian Crews of the Shelbyville Police Department. In Perry's hands was a bag containing an eReader and USB cord valued at $20, police said...

Money taken from auto dealer's office (12/14/11)
Money was stolen from an office at Victory Nissan South, U.S. 231 North, overnight Monday, police said The parts manager told police he arrived at 8 a.m. Tuesday to discover a glass door had been broken, a satellite radio was missing and an inside office door had been pried...

Robbery suspect found quickly as bystanders help (08/30/11)
One of two suspects in the early morning robbery of a Shelbyville convenience store Saturday was quickly captured with the help of bystanders. Maurice Cyril Smith, 22, of Fairfield Pike was arrested in a residential area behind the Kangaroo store on South Cannon Boulevard within moments, police said. He was charged with aggravated robbery and is being held on $25,000 bond...

Pickle pays in prison for robbery of market (08/18/11)
A Shelbyville man will spend over 11 years in federal prison for last year's armed robbery of Wedge Market on Belmont Avenue. Justin Pickle, 25, of Central Avenue, was sentenced to 135 months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Harry S. Mattice, Jr. on robbery charges and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence...

Blanchard loses appeal of robbery conviction (07/20/11)
A man convicted of the 2009 knifepoint robbery of a Shelbyville convenience store recently lost his appeal on a number of merits. Richard Lowell "Rick" Blanchard II, 47, was sentenced last year to 11 years in prison for aggravated robbery for the holdup of the Kangaroo store at the Madison Street-Deery Street intersection in the early morning hours of March 8, 2009...

Pickle pleads guilty to holding up store (05/13/11)
A Shelbyville man could be facing a long stint in prison after pleading guilty to two charges related to the armed robbery of a local convenience store. Justin Pickle, 24, of Central Avenue pleaded guilty Wednesday in Chattanooga to robbery charges and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence for the robbery of Wedge Market on Belmont Avenue on Sept. 2, 2010...

Alleged store robber plans to admit guilt (05/03/11)
A Shelbyville man accused of robbing a convenience store at gunpoint last year is scheduled to change his plea in federal court next week. Documents filed in federal court Monday indicate that Justin Pickle, 24, of Central Avenue, intends to change his plea to guilty on May 11...

Feds will enter case vs. Pickle (03/16/11)
A Shelbyville man accused of robbing a convenience store at gunpoint last year may face "substantial" time in prison following a federal indictment issued in the case. Justin Pickle, 24, of Central Avenue is now the subject of a three-count indictment stemming from his alleged robbery of Wedge Market, Belmont Avenue, on Sept. 2...

Shelbyville man accused in Tullahoma holdup (01/04/11)
A Shelbyville man is being held in Coffee County on over $100,000 bond after he allegedly robbed a Tullahoma convenience store on New Year's Day. Johnny Charles Cates, 29, of Highway 130 West has been charged with aggravated robbery and is being held under $102,500 bond. He is scheduled to appear in Coffee County General Sessions Court on Feb. 10...

Lewisburg bank struck by robber (11/21/10)
First Farmers Bank in Lewisburg was robbed of an undetermined amount of money at about noon on Friday, city police said. A white man in his mid-to-late 20s wearing a ball cap, no mask and a camouflage jacket "implied" that he had a weapon, but did not show it if he had one, Police Chief Chuck Forbis said...

Man robbed on Templeton Street (10/24/10)
A Shelbyville man reported he was robbed of $60 Thursday by a man wielding a box cutter while walking along Templeton Street. The victim told officer Josh Leverette of the Shelbyville Police Department the man, who he knows as "Gucci" or "Goochie," approached as if he was going to hug him then stuck the box cutter to his side, cut his shirt, took his wallet from his pants, removed the money and ran...

Pickle faces hearing in store robbery (10/01/10)
A preliminary hearing has been set for a man accused of robbing a Shelbyville convenience store at gunpoint. Justin Pickle, 24, of Central Avenue will appear before General Sessions Judge Charles Rich on Oct. 29 for a hearing to see if there is cause to bind him over to the November session of the Bedford County grand jury...

Appeal denied for robber of 3 children (09/28/10)
A man who robbed three children at gunpoint last January has lost his appeal for a shorter sentence. Wilson Palacio had appealed his sentence of 25 years, saying that Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler erred in ordering him to serve consecutive sentences...

Daytime robbery hits home (06/25/10)
A Peachtree Lane resident was robbed at gunpoint in her home late Tuesday morning by a companion of a woman she considered a friend, the Bedford County Sheriff's Department said Thursday. The victim's friend, a woman, arrived at 11 a.m. accompanied by a man who sat outside in the car for awhile, Deputy Garcia Jordan said. The friend went to the car and was followed on her return by the man, who pushed his way inside as the victim attempted to lock the door, Jordan said...

Masked men rob, tie clerk (05/18/10)
Masked men bound and robbed a clerk at a Shelbyville convenience store early Monday, leaving him injured inside an office, police said. The robbery occurred about 2 a.m. at the Kangaroo store at Madison Street and South Hillcrest Drive, Det. Lt. Pat Mathis said...

Freedom isn't free, WWII vet emphasizes (05/14/10)
R.T. Haynes stresses that he wasn't a hero. But in one sense, anyone who puts on a uniform in his or her country's service is a hero, a commitment made with the constant awareness that it may require the ultimate sacrifice. Haynes served for 37 months in the Armed Forces during World War II. ...

Pizza delivery driver robbed by gang members (05/11/10)
Three persons have been arrested in what investigators term a "gang-related" robbery of a pizza delivery driver near Shelbyville late Friday. They are considered suspects in an invasion early Saturday at a Shelbyville home, officers said. Emory Emanuel Hobby, 20, of Purdy Court and Justin Dewayne Gentry, 18, of Germantown Road were charged with aggravated robbery in connection with the pizza delivery incident, Det. ...

Call goes bad as robbers take cab driver's phone (04/18/10)
A cab driver was attacked and his cell phone stolen on Candy Lane in Shelbyville late Thursday night, police said. The driver told officer Jerry Draine he was struck by several men as he knocked on the door at a trailer where he'd been told to pick up a fare...

Holdup suspect surrenders after standoff (03/25/10)
The man suspected of robbing a Shelbyville restaurant last Saturday surrendered to police in Nashville Wednesday afternoon following a four-hour standoff. Gregory Lynn Redden is to be charged with aggravated robbery -- not only for allegedly robbing the Sonic restaurant on Madison Street, but also for allegedly holding up a Sonic in east Nashville last Thursday...

Suspect demands money at gunpoint (03/23/10)
Police are looking for a man they consider armed and dangerous who allegedly robbed a Shelbyville restaurant at gunpoint on Saturday. Gregory Lynn Redden, 47, of Rainey Lane is accused of holding up Sonic Drive-In, Madison Street. Redden allegedly entered the restaurant at 10:40 p.m. and demanded that the manager give him the money in the safe, Detective Sgt. Brian Crews of the Shelbyville Police Department said...

Four accused of plotting robbery (02/11/10)
Three 18-year-olds and a juvenile have been arrested in connection with a rural armed robbery last week that sheriff's investigators said "didn't add up." Arrested were: n Matthew James Jeannette, Murfreesboro, charged with aggravated assault, aggravated robbery, possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment. He is being held under $60,000 bond...

Blanchard rips judicial system at sentencing (01/26/10)
The man convicted of robbing a Shelbyville convenience store at knifepoint last year was sentenced on Monday, but not before blasting the county's judicial system. Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler sentenced Richard Lowell "Rick" Blanchard II, 46, to 11 years in prison for aggravated robbery in connection with a holdup at the Kangaroo store at the Madison Street-Deery Street intersection early March 8, 2009...

Masked men hold up store (01/14/10)
Three masked men, one armed, got away with several hundred dollars from a Shelbyville convenience store Tuesday night, police said. The men, all clad in ski masks, entered Depot Street Market around 7:50 p.m., Officer Jose Garza said. "One subject was at the door apparently acting as a lookout while the second subject was at the counter with a black bag demanding money," Garza said. "The third subject was armed with a silver revolver and was demanding the money as well."...

Blanchard sentencing awaits verified records (12/24/09)
A man found guilty of holding up a Shelbyville convenience market in March has had his sentencing hearing delayed until next month so that a previous conviction in another state can be verified. Richard Lowell "Rick" Blanchard II, 46, of North Main Street appeared before Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler Monday to learn his sentence, but defense attorney Hershell Koger questioned some of the data in Blanchard's pre-sentence report...

Robber strikes Shelbyville bank (12/01/09)
The Madison Street branch of First Community Bank was robbed shortly before noon Monday by a man who demanded money but didn't display a weapon, police said. "A male entered, he didn't make any reference to or brandish a weapon," Detective Charles Merlo of the Shelbyville Police Department said...

Attackers injure man, take money and phone (11/10/09)
A Shelbyville man told police he was attacked and robbed outside a Courtland Drive home early Friday night. Carlos Garcia said two men punched and kicked him about 6:15 p.m. while taking his wallet, which contained approximately $600, and cell phone...

Blanchard found guilty of robbery (10/13/09)
A man who was caught on video was found guilty Monday of robbing a Shelbyville convenience market in March. Richard Lowell "Rick" Blanchard II, 46, of North Main Street, will be sentenced on Dec. 21 on the charge of aggravated robbery in connection with a holdup that took place at the Kangaroo store at the Madison Street-Deery Street intersection in the early morning hours of March 8...

Bullet misses, but man thought he'd been shot (09/29/09)
A Shelbyville man who thought he had been shot in the head Sunday in an argument over $30 only suffered a deep gash, Shelbyville police said. Tamra Shenell Whitley, 28, Woodbury Street, whose gun allegedly went off while she was using it to hit William G. Lynch of Shelbyville, has been charged with aggravated robbery, Bedford County Jail records indicate...

Shelbyville bank robbed; suspect escapes (04/23/08)
The thief who robbed First Community Bank's Madison Street branch at mid-afternoon today (Tuesday) may have gotten away red-handed -- literally. A red dye bomb within a money bag taken in the robbery exploded less than 100 yards away behind the bank, police said...

Stores burglarized along Highway 64 (03/29/08)
A thief took the grand tour of rural convenience stores west of Shelbyville overnight Wednesday, getting away with merchandise from two locations. Deputies responded following a alarm about 11:30 p.m. to find glass broken in the drive-through window, through which the market was apparently entered, a report by Cpl. Kent Jacobs said...

A record-setting flight in a Shelbyville-made plane (03/29/08)
An aircraft constructed at Shelbyville's Jabiru USA facility has set a coast-to-coast speed record for a piston engine landplane that weights a ton or less. Retired Navy pilot Earl Ferguson of Atlanta claimed the record, which was approved by the National Aeronautic Association this month. ...

Sanford honored for support of Guard member (03/28/08)
Sanford Brands' distribution center on Railroad Avenue has been honored by Employee Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) for its support of employees while they are away from their full-time jobs in the service of their country. Melissa Barker supervises Sanford's outbound distribution division. On March 24, she was presented with an award for her compassion and support as an employer of a Tennessee Army National Guardsman...

Flat Creek residents help catch burglary suspects (03/28/08)
A father and son have been charged in a series of daytime home burglaries in the Flat Creek and Wartrace areas after alert residents helped officials track the suspects. James Arthur Brown, 43, and Joe Brown, 20, who are both listed as residents of Forest Hills Apartments in Shelbyville, were arrested Wednesday while driving on New Hope Road. A 17-year-old girl was also charged...

Seminar in Murfreesboro focuses on Somalis (03/24/08)
MURFREESBORO -- "There will always be change." Those were the words of Salaad Nur, a Somali immigrant who spoke Thursday evening at Middle Tennessee State University to a group of students about the refugees who have moved to this state after fleeing their war torn country...

Timely phone call led to grand jury action (03/24/08)
Bedford County's grand jury has indicted a Shelbyville man on theft and traffic charges arising from a December incident that culminated with his arrest at about the time police were interviewing the complainant. With a suspect in custody, an observant officer noticed his prisoner had a cell phone, so he had a fellow officer call the victim's number. The cell phone found on the suspect began to ring, according to police reports...

Trucker charged in serious wreck (03/20/08)
The truck driver accused of causing an eight-vehicle pileup March 12 on Madison Street has been charged with reckless endangerment. Teresa K. McInnis, 46, of Morrison was arrested after arriving at Shelbyville police headquarters Tuesday to pick up a copy of the accident report...

Donations still sought for World War II vets' trip (03/19/08)
Donations are still needed for next month's trip to the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. for Bedford County's World War II veterans. According to Robert Daniel, who is heading up the project, March 25 is the cutoff date for veterans to register and donations are still arriving...

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