Preview of Monday’s That’s Messed Up
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Monday at 5pm we’re investigating recidivism in Nashville. We’ll show you how these repeat offenders are affecting your community. The following is a press release from Metro Police about the most recent capture of one of these criminals:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A parolee with 13 burglary convictions on his record between 1996 and 2005 is back behind bars after officers arrested him early today for breaking into the Texaco market at 815 Murfreesboro Pike.
Royce Drennon, 51, who was recently released on parole in relation to an eight-year sentence for a 2005 burglary, was arrested at 1:15 a.m. by Hermitage Precinct Sergeant Keith Stephens on Murfreesboro Pike near the I-24 junction after Stephens saw that he closely matched the description of the burglar provided by a witness.
South Precinct detectives Lori Gross and Jarrad Rikal interviewed Drennon, who denied any involvement in the burglary despite having small cuts on his arms, glass fragments on his clothing, and more than $200 in cash and loose change in his pockets (the crime scene revealed that the store’s front door glass was smashed with a brake rotor and that money was taken from two cash registers).
The store’s surveillance system was checked and clearly showed that Drennon was responsible for the break-in.
Drennon’s bond was set at $35,000 on charges of burglary and theft. The state is expected to file a parole violation warrant against him.
Find out if recidivism is occuring in your neighborhood, Monday at 5pm.
I realazation has dawned upon me just today after a friend emailed me something. Our local media and across the country has made it a big deal when it comes to the deaths of individual like Michael Jackson and Steve McNair. I would just like to point out that we have REAL AMERICAN HEROS who dye on a daily basis and one in particular died on June 25th, 2009. This man was not a TN resident but still, is he not someone that WE ALL should look at and admire because he performed a job and placed his life at great risk to save 30 individuals in Vietnam. This is the email I recieved and if I can get an email I will be more than happy to send the original email that was sent to me that includes the picture of this man.
Michael Jackson dies and it’s 24/7 news coverage. A real American hero dies and not a mention of it in the news. The media has no honor
Ed Freeman
You’re a 19-year-old kid. You’re critically wounded and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.
You’re lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you’re not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away and you’ll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter and you look up to see an unarmed Huey, but it doesn’t seem real because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He’s not Medi-Vac, so it’s not his job, but he’s flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come.
He’s coming anyway.
And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire as they load 2 or 3 of you on board.
Then he flies you up and out, through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses.
And he kept coming back, 13 more times, and took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died on Wednesday, June 25th, 2009, at the age of 80, in Boise , ID. May God rest his soul.
Medal of Honor Winner
Ed Freeman!
Since the media didn’t give him the coverage he deserves, send this to every red-blooded American you know.
THANKS AGAIN, ED, FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR COUNTRY.
RIP
Should we not stop, even if it is not Memorial Day, and recognize and honor this gentlemen for what he’s done. Perhaps if this is not the appropriate place to demand justice for this man, would you forward it on to someone and broadcast for all of us in the surrounding area to see and remember you don’t have to be a celebrity or pro-athlete to be a hero to others.
Hendersonville empty police cars on the side of veterans plus the move over law equals law enforcement putting the public in danger trying to obey a law to protect them. people swerveing away from empty squads cars are a hazard on an already hzardous curvey roadway THATS MESSED UP