Tennessee Football Players Arrested

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, Nuke's 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 Pries. He went on to say a black man then approached with a black sweatshirt and brandishing a black semi-automatic pistol. The men said a black man, and then exited from the passenger side of the Pries, wearing a black, hooded sweatshirt. A black man, third, then went and told the other two black males, “We have to go.” The Pries 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.
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. Crime Lab responded to the scene and confiscated the hoodless, the air gun and marijuana mill. The vehicle was towed to the city impound lot. The marijuana was confiscated by the officers.
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