Tennessee Football Players Arrested
November 12, 2009 by Trend PK
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Tennessee Football Players Arrested, Three University of Tennessee football players are in custody and charged with attempted armed robbery after an incident that occurred this morning in a pilot store located on Cumberland Avenue in Knoxville, near the campus of the University of Tennessee.
According to Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk Knoxville, Nu’Keese Richardson, Mike Janzen Jackson and Edwards were arrested at the Detention Center of Knox County.
Officers responded to the convenience store located at 2218 Pilot Cumberland Avenue at about 1:43 this morning on an armed robbery in progress call. According to police reports three men were sitting in the car waiting for a friend who was inside the store.
The three men said they had parked next to a light blue Toyota Prius. He went on to say a black man then approached with a black sweatshirt and brandishing a black semi-automatic pistol. He opened the driver’s door and said, “Give me everything you have.”
The men said a black man, then exited from the passenger side of the Prius, wearing a black, hooded sweatshirt. He walked to the passenger door of his car, opened it and said, “Give us everything you have.”
According to statements made by men to the police, all presenting their portfolios to suspects and showed them that he had no money. A black man, third, then went and told the other two black males, “We have to go.” The three got into the Prius and left, according to reports.
The Prius has been observed near Gibbs Hall on Lake Loudoun Blvd. on the campus of the University of Tennessee. There is a stop crime took place on the vehicle, and four men were detained in the vehicle.
He saw two hooded black officers in sight in the backseat. Under the seat back towards the center, officers found a black air pistol CO2 powered. Inside the glove box, officers found a marijuana grinder. A search of the suspects revealed a clear plastic bag containing a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana in the vehicle’s driver, his jacket pocket Marie Montmarquet’s. Montmarquet later stated that the mill marijuana belonged to her. She was charged with possession, in addition to attempted armed robbery.
Crime Lab responded to the scene and confiscated the hoodies, the air gun and marijuana mill. The vehicle was towed to the city impound lot. The marijuana was confiscated by the officers.
The four suspects were taken back to pilot a program to identification. The victims positively identified Edwards and Richardson as the two approached their vehicle and demanded everything. Source thedailytimes
Tennessee Football Players Arrested was first posted on November 12, 2009 at 8:34 pm.
