A pursuit of persons wanted for questioning in connection with an armed robbery in a room of a McMinnville motel lead to a multi-agency takedown in front of Woodbury Town Hall yesterday.
Tuesday morning the patrol officers of the McMinnville Police Department were dispatched the Best Value Inn on an armed robbery call. A vehicle description was given out as one of the parties involved. Sgt Austin Wortman spotted a Chevy truck on Hwy 55 and tried to initiate a traffic stop. The vehicle stopped momentarily and then fled. The truck went out into the county and came back onto Nashville Highway and proceeded toward Woodbury.
The Warren County Sheriff’s Department assisted along with Tennessee Highway Patrol on the pursuit into Cannon County. Once in Cannon County, members of the Sheriff’s Department and Woodbury Police assisted. Arrested in Woodbury was Nicholas Flores, age 20. There was also two juvenile females in the vehicle that were on runaway status out of the Chattanooga area.
Deputies with the Warren County Sheriff’s Department made a traffic stop on Rebel Hill Street later in the afternoon that had occupants that were present at the armed robbery. Two of the three occupants have been charged with armed robbery. They have been identified as Rafael Lopez age 24 and Leo Garcia age 26. Nicholas Flores has also been charged with evading arrest and multiple counts of reckless endangerment based on the pursuit.
