A Nashville man who has been charged with 89 criminal offenses over the past 23 years will appear on the General Sessions Court Jail Docket tomorrow on charges that he tried to rob two women in their 70s outside a West Nashville Cracker Barrel restaurant Friday night.
Eddie Charles Vanderpool, 41, who claims to be homeless, is presently jailed in lieu of $550,000 bond on two counts of robbery and one count of assault.
Jean Wright, 70, was about to get into a car parked in the lot of the Cracker Barrel at 6941 Charlotte Pike at 11:30 p.m. Friday when Vanderpool approached, put his coat over her face, demanded money, and knocked her to the ground. Vanderpool then turned to Wright’s friend, Thelma Wilson, 75, and told her that he would leave if she would give him her money. When Wilson’s husband, Donald Wilson, 74, attempted to intervene, he, too, was knocked to the ground by Vanderpool.
Herbert Crowson, 77, and Dennis Orman, 72, saw what was taking place and decided to take action. They came up behind Vanderpool, slammed him into a vehicle, and, with Donald Wilson’s help, held him there until Metro Police arrived.
All of the senior citizens involved are members of a Friday night dance club.
“I greatly admire these citizens’ resolve and heroism in putting a stop to Vanderpool’s criminal actions and holding him for our officers,” Chief Ronal Serpas said. “Thankfully, everything worked out for the best.”
“Vanderpool’s latest arrest underscores the recidivism issue in Nashville and Tennessee,” Serpas said. “Our officers continue to arrest the same people over and over again.”
Eddie Charles Vanderpool
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