Man arrested for pulling knife on neighbors

A Murfreesboro man was arrested around 10:15 p.m. Wednesday following an altercation with his neighbors, according to Murfreesboro Police Department reports. Jerome R. Richardson, 22, of Old Lascassas Pike, was cahrged with aggravated burglary, aggravated assault and vandalism, Officer Robert Jamison reported. Richardson’s neighbors said he was fighting an unknown person in their yard and they interceded to break it up. In the process, he allegedly pushed his neighbor, who is a 60-year-old man, was pushed to the ground. The man’s son pulled Richardson away and escorted him inside their residence, according to Jamison’s report.

“At this point, they advised, (Richardson) abruptly came into their residence through the front door with a kitchen knife, cursing and pursuing an altercation with (the son),” Jamison reported. The son pushed Richardson outside, where Jamison found him on the front porch with “the knife in question” and drinking an intoxicating beverage, the officer reported. Richardson said he had the knife for protection from his neighbors. Jamison arrested him and charged him accordingly. Richardson is being held at Rutherford County Adult Detention Center on $11,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear March 6 in General Sessions Court.

A 23-year-old Murfreesoro woman claimed she was robbed around 4:30 Wednesday afternoon by a man who was supposed to give her a ride, Officer Reginal Primas reported. The woman said her nephew’s friend, who she knows as “John,” agreed to give her a ride to the bank and came over to her apartment, according to a Murfreesoro incident report. The suspect asked the victim for a cigarette and, as she retrieved one, he grabbed her purse and tried to run out of the residence, Primas reported. The victim said she grabbed her purse and the pair struggled for control of the purse.

“During the struggle, (the suspect) was grabbing money and pill bottles from her purse and made the statement ‘b----, don’t make me shoot you’ as he displayed the black handle of what appeared to be a gun,” Primas wrote. At this point, the victim let go of the purse and the suspect ran from the house. She followed and “snatched the keys from the ignition” of his car before he could leave, she told the officer. The suspect hit the victim a few times before fleeing the scene by jumping over a fence. He later returned to his vehicle and “sped away,” Primas reported. The suspect made off with $40 and $490 in prescription pain medication, according to the police report. Primas reported he has the likely identity of the suspect, but no arrest has been made at this time.