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By: TMP - July 15, 2008 - 1:25 PM

Posted: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:40 pm

13-year-old girl identifies felons breaking into her home | Crime, Edrick Smith, RCSO, William Kuehl

Two convicted felons and three juvenile delinquents were arrested by Rutherford County patrol deputies for two separate burglaries before noon Monday, a sheriff’s spokesman said.

The adult felons were arrested Monday morning just minutes after breaking into a home occupied by a 13-year-old girl home alone on Appomattox Drive in the Walter Hill community, reported Sgt. Dan Goodwin.

At about 10:50 a.m., the girl investigated after hearing a noise in the living room of her home and surprised the burglars, Goodwin reported. One was a white man in a plaid shirt and the other a black man in a white T-shirt and do-rag. They were removing a DVD player.

Both criminals fled. The girl called her mother with the information and she relayed it to dispatchers.

Deputies set up a perimeter in the Walter Hill area. While en route to the call, deputies saw a vehicle occupied by a white man and a black man and stopped them.

The two were positively identified by the teen.

William Evan Kuehl, 23, (right) of 1216 W. Main St. and Edrick Lamont Smith (top right), 26, of 284 Meigs Avenue were both charged with aggravated burglary and being held in lieu of $5,000 bond awaiting a Sept. 10 hearing.

Smith has been arrested seven times since November 2000 by our agency, on charges ranging from robbery to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He has spent a total of 1,555 days in jail during those years.

Kuehl has been arrested five times since January of 2003, on charges ranging from theft up to $60,000, burglary and aggravated assault. He has spent a total of 1,307 days in jail the past five years.

Still earlier Monday morning, deputies responded to a burglar alarm at Wheeler’s Market on Lascassas Pike at about 4:30 a.m.

Deputy Stephen Lewis reported deputies found a track where the suspects ran to a cornfield and an abandoned home.

Lt. Rhett Rankin called for K-9 Sgt. Lee Young of the Interstate Crime Enforcement Unit.

Some deputies reviewed the store videotape while other deputies searched for the suspect. Sgt. Jon Frazier guided deputies to an East Pitts Lane home where the three suspects were located.

Three males juveniles, ages 15, 15 and 17, were interviewed and then charged with aggravated burglary. A hearing is pending in Juvenile Court.

Tagged under Crime, Edrick Smith, RCSO, William Kuehl

Member Opinions:

By: Macgyver on 7/15/08
2 guys arrested 12 times!!! When is enough, enough?

By: Boo on 7/15/08
I'M so glad this little girl wasn't hurt by these two thugs.