Outstanding coordinated police work by North Precinct officers led to last night’s arrest of four teenagers and one 20-year-old for an armed robbery and shooting at Toliver’s Jewelry & Loan pawnshop on South Gallatin Pike in Madison.
At 5:50 last night, three robbers entered the store. At least one of them was armed with a pistol and fired a shot at business owner Gary Toliver, who suffered a graze wound to his right arm. The suspects robbed Toliver and another employee of cash. They also took 26 pistols from the store’s inventory.
Officer Lawrence Lacy quickly responded to the robbery call and broadcast the description of the suspects and their getaway car, a white Chrysler Sebring, over the police radio. Minutes later, officers Charles Taylor and Richard King, who were in the Madison area working a plainclothes robbery surveillance assignment, spotted the getaway car on Archwood Drive near State Route 45. The car was stopped and all five occupants were taken into custody without incident. The 26 pistols, along with $2,700 cash, were recovered from the car.
Charged with especially aggravated robbery are suspected shooter Thomas Dewayne Curry, 16, of Spring Branch Road in Madison, Adeola Emoluwa, 16, of Dry Creek Road in Madison, Maurice Hegman, 19, of 32nd Street in Old Hickory, Craig Singletary, 18, of Nathan Drive in Goodlettsville, and Tapreiah Terrell, 20, of Big Horn Drive. Terrell was driving the Sebring when police stopped it.
Hegman was convicted in Criminal Court on two counts of facilitation of aggravated robbery just last month.
“Plainclothes extra duty robbery initiatives are in place in various parts of town as this police department strongly focuses on getting individuals like these five off our streets,” Chief Ronal Serpas said.
Curry and Emoluwa are being held in juvenile detention. The three adults are each being held in lieu of $150,000 bond.
Toliver was treated for the graze wound by paramedics at the scene.
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