Update

Tips help police ID two women wanted in 2016 shoplifting case

Posted by Lieutenant Charles Warner on June 7, 2017
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Angela Thomas Wright, Age: 50, Murfreesboro, TN

Thanks to tips from the public, both suspects in this 2016 shoplifting case have been arrested. Angela Thomas Wright, 50, of Murfreesboro was arrested in March, 2017. Angela Bottoms, 32, of Murfreesboro, was arrested on June 1, 2017. Both suspects were released on bond.

On May 13, 2016, they unboxed electric toothbrushes, several movie DVDs, and other merchandise before stealing it from the Cool Springs Target. Surveillance video captured these images, and tips from the public led to their identification and recent arrests.

Angela Bottoms, Age: 32, Murfreesboro, TN

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Update on Saturday bomb threat

Posted by Lieutenant Charles Warner on May 31, 2017
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After conferring with the TN Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, Franklin Police Detectives have determined that Saturday’s threat at Jamison Station was one of many received across the country via a wireless printer. We continue to work with local, state, and federal law enforcement authorities involved in related investigations. We believe this was a hoax and that individuals involved were not local.

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FPD call for witnesses to last week’s fatal motorcycle crash

Posted by Lieutenant Charles Warner on May 15, 2017
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Franklin Police are seeking witnesses who may have information about actions by anyone involved before, during, or after the motorcycle crash that killed 44-year-old Patrick Sturdivant last Wednesday night. The crash occurred shortly after 5:30 p.m. on E. McEwen Drive near Carothers Parkway.

The 50-year-old Nolensville woman who hit Sturdivant was traveling east on E. McEwen when she initiated a lane change, colliding with the eastbound motorcycle that Sturdivant was driving. Traffic Reconstructionists from the Franklin Police Department’s Critical Incident Response team are investigating. It has not yet been determined if charges will be filed.

 If you have any information that might be helpful, you are urged to call
Franklin Police: (615) 794-2513, ask for the Traffic Unit.

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Motorcycle driver in Wednesday’s crash dies

Posted by Lieutenant Charles Warner on May 11, 2017
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The motorcycle driver injured in Wednesday night’s crash has died. The crash occurred shortly after 5:30 p.m. on E. McEwen Drive near Carothers Parkway. Patrick Sturdivant was critically injured during the crash. Sturdivant was rushed to Vanderbilt Medical Center where he later died. He was 44.

The 50-year-old Nolensville woman who hit Sturdivant was traveling east on E. McEwen when she initiated a lane change, colliding with the eastbound motorcycle that Sturdivant was driving. Traffic Reconstructionists from the Franklin Police Department’s Critical Incident Response team are investigating. It has not yet been determined if charges will be filed. We are saddened by the Sturdivant family’s tragic loss.

Franklin Police are seeking witnesses.
If you have any information that might be helpful, you are urged to call
Franklin Police: (615) 794-2513, ask for the Traffic Unit.

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Police seeking person of interest in attack on Franklin woman

Posted by Lieutenant Charles Warner on May 3, 2017
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Thomas Jacob Christian Burns
6’2″ | 170 Pounds

Franklin Police are seeking information on the whereabouts of Thomas Jacob Christian Burns. The 24-year-old is a person of interest in the April 25 attack of a woman on Toll House Circle. Detectives are working to determine if that attack could be connected to another incident on Downs Boulevard.

Burns was recently released from the Williamson County Jail after his March 25 arrest for Assault. Burns is homeless, and believed to have been camping in a wooded area near Toll House Circle at the time of the attack in that area.

While these incidents are being investigated and detectives work to identify the suspect, police are cautioning woman to be a bit more aware of their surroundings. Franklin Police have stepped up patrols in the areas of both incidents. Detectives are asking area residents with outside security cameras to review their DVRs for anything that might help.

If you have information on Burns’ whereabouts
you are urged to call
Franklin Police: (615) 794-2513

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Franklin Police capture second suspect in violent hotel robbery

Posted by Lieutenant Charles Warner on April 16, 2017
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An intensive two-day manhunt by Franklin Police has landed this remaining armed robbery suspect behind bars. Franklin Police Detectives and Flex Team Officers arrested 40-year-old Gregg Merrilees in the parking lot of an apartment complex on Indian Park Drive, in Murfreesboro, early this afternoon.

Merrilees was the remaining at-large suspect in the January 11 robbery of the Baymont Inn, on Franklin Commons Court, where one suspect armed with a gun and the other with a knife, menaced the overnight clerk while demanding the hotel’s cash. Detectives from Franklin, Nashville, and Smyrna worked together to identify 32-year-old Dashaun Hickerson of Antioch and 40-year-old Gregg Merrilees of Murfreesboro as the suspects in a string of hotel robberies, including the one in Franklin.

Merrilees, charged with Aggravated Robbery, Burglary, and Theft Under $1,000, is being held in the Williamson County Jail on a $75,000 bond. His court date has not yet been set. Hickerson remains in custody in the Rutherford County Jail.

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