Members of the FBI’s Violent Crimes Task Force, Metro detectives and SWAT officers assigned to the Special Response Team during the night arrested the two men believed responsible for one robbery and one attempted robbery of the same Bowling Green, Kentucky, bank last month.
William R. Hendrick, 57, of Anderson Lane in Madison, and Richard Parrott, 58, of Bills Lane in Joelton, are being charged federally with armed bank robbery. The two were arrested together at midnight after they pulled into a convenience market on Haywood Lane near I-24. Both men have bank robbery-related convictions out of Florida from the 1980s.
On April 6, a pickup truck stolen from a gas station at I-24 and Whites Creek Pike was used to flee Bowling Green’s South Central Bank by two men who committed a robbery wearing Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon Halloween masks. One of the robbers carried a sawed-off shotgun.
On April 25, a Toyota station wagon stolen from a convenience market at 29th and West End Avenues was used to flee the same bank by two men wearing the same or similar masks. This time, the men entered the foyer of the bank but were not able to gain access to the locked lobby. Thinking they were trapped in the foyer, one of the suspects fired a shotgun blast through the outer door.
A recent tip to Crime Stoppers led to the development of Hendrick and Parrott as suspects. Recovered from Parrott’s home early today was a sawed-off shotgun, a Halloween mask, and rolled change believed to have come from the April 6 robbery.
The investigation of the two men is continuing in an effort to determine whether they have been involved in any other Nashville crimes besides the two auto thefts.
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