STATEMENTS IMPLICATING RUSSELL HAMBLIN AND OTHERS IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
INCLUDING AGGRAVATED ROBBERY. RUSSELL HAMBLIN HAS ADMITTED TO SELLING ILLEGAL DRUGS AND USING [SIC] THE AGGRAVATED ROBBERY. RUSSELL HAMBLIN HAS ADMITTED THAT HE HAS NO OTHER MEANS OF INCOME FROM A LEGITIMATE WORK PLACE. INFORMATION WAS RECEIVED THAT A SAFE WAS PURCHASED TO CONCEAL PROCEEDS FROM CRIMINAL ACTIVITY SUCH AS AGGRAVATED ROBBERY AND ILLEGAL DRUG SALES. RUSSELL HAMBLIN HAS ADMITTED THAT HE IS A GANG MEMBER.
ON 02/03/07, A SEARCH WARRANT WAS EXECUTED AT 550 SOUTH 6th STREET. MEMBERS OF THE METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED THEIR PRESENCE AND KNOCKED ON THE DOOR. IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT POLICE WERE PRESENT AND THAT A SEARCH WARRANT WAS TO BE SERVED. SEVERAL MINUTES WENT BY BEFORE ENTRY WAS MADE. THE APARTMENT WAS CLEARED AND A SAFE WAS FOUND UPSTAIRS IN A BEDROOM CLOSET. PAPERS WERE FOUND AT THE APARTMENT INDICATING THAT RUSSELL HAMBLIN WAS RECEIVING MAIL AT 550 SOUTH 6 TH STREET. THE SAFE WAS PRINTED AND PHOTOGRAPHED. THE SAFE WAS OPENED AND NOTHING WAS FOUND. THE SAFE WAS IN AN UPSTAIRS CLOSET, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHERE DAVIDA HOLT SAID IT WOULD BE.
SHARDEA TAYLOR ARRIVED AT 550 SOUTH 6 TH STREET AND INQUIRED ABOUT ENTRY INTO HER APARTMENT. SHE WAS ADVISED THAT A SEARCH WARRANT WAS EXECUTED AND THAT NO ONE ANSWERED THE DOOR AND ENTRY WAS MADE. DETECTIVES TALKED TO HER ABOUT RUSSELL HAMBLIN. SHE STATED THAT RUSSELL HAMBLIN IS THE FATHER TO AT LEAST ONE OF HER CHILDREN. SHE STATED THAT HE HAS NOT BEEN THERE IN ABOUT A WEEK. DETECTIVES ASKED ABOUT THE SAFE AND SHE STATED THAT RUSSELL BROUGHT THE SAFE OVER TO HER APARTMENT ABOUT THE SAME TIME HER CHILD WAS BORN. HER CHILD WAS BORN ON OR ABOUT 12/31/06. SHE WAS ASKED WHY HE BROUGHT IT OVER AND SHE STATED THAT SHE DID NOT KNOW.
DETECTIVES ASKED HER IF SHE WAS FAMILIAR WITH DAVIDA HOLT AND SHE STATED THAT SHE KNEW HER BUT DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HER. DETECTIVES NOTICED THAT THE
VEHICLE SHARDEA AND HER BROTHER ARRIVED IN. THE VEHICLE THEY WERE DRIVING BELONGED TO DAVIDA HOLT. DETECTIVES ASKED STEVEN HOW HE KNEW DAVIDA AND HE STATED THAT SHE WAS A FRIEND AND THAT SHE WAS RENTING AN APARTMENT FROM HIM AT 6116 NEW YORK AVENUE. STEVEN ALSO STATED THAT HE WAS FAMILIAR WITH RUSSELL HAMBLIN. HE STATED THAT HE CAUGHT A GUN CHARGE WHILE BEING ASSOCIATED WITH HIM BASED ON THE REPORTS, WITNESS STATEMENTS, AND CONFESSIONS, IT IS BELIEVED THAT RUSSELL LENOX HAMBLIN AND SEDRIC LAMONT HOLT ROBBED THE HOUSE OF CHOY AT 3825 DICKERSON PIKE. SEDRIC ADMITTED TO HIS INVOLVEMENT AND IMPLICATED RUSSELL LENOX HAMBLIN.
WITNESSES INCLUDING ERIC HOLT, CARRIE HOLT, KATHERINE HOLT, AND DAVIDA HOLT WERE EITHER PRESENT WHEN MONEY WAS COUNTED FROM THE HOUSE OF CHOY ROBBERY OR HEARD RUSSELL HAMBLIN AND SEDRIC HOLT DISCUSSING ROBBERIES INCLUDING CHINESE RESTAURANTS.
Sentencing Hearing
At the sentencing hearing, Donna Osborne testified that she was present during the robbery of the Angel