A Tennessee sheriff says the driver of a pickup truck that was heard playing audio in a store outside Nashville Sunday is in jail on charges of crimes. But authorities say it had no explosives.
According to the sheriff in Rutherford County, members of a church and customers at the nearby market where the white pickup was spotted in Lebanon, about 25 miles east of Nashville, heard the driver playing sound “similar to what was heard” before a recreational vehicle exploded. in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day.
Sgt. Steve Craig says deputies were called in to investigate reports of the truck driver making loud noises outside the market and later learned that the man was charged earlier in the day with a similar act outside a church.
Rutherford County, sheriff in Tennessee
The Tennessee Highway Patrol said a robot was sent to inspect the truck and that no device was found.
Residents in the area were evacuated when the white truck was combed, reports WBSF-TV, a subsidiary of CBS in Nashville.
The sheriff’s office said in a statement that 33-year-old driver James Turgeon had been detained and charged with two counts of misdemeanor and false testimony.
Officials say the charges of evidence were filed because he “intentionally damaged the wiring of the speaker system”.
Turgeon is being held on a $ 500,000 bond, authorities said.