MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) -- A Murfreesboro man has been sentenced to more than three decades in prison for charges related to armed robberies at multiple businesses and banks in Middles Tennessee.
According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), 34-year-old Frederick Eugene Carney was sentenced on Friday, Nov. 15 to 32 years in federal prison for robbery, bank robbery, illegally possessing ammunition, and brandishing or discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
Officials said the convictions in this case are connected to the armed robberies of two Cash Express businesses in Ardmore, and Greenbrier, the Regions Bank in Smyrna, and the First Horizon Bank on Whites Creek Pike in Nashville between Feb. 18, 2022, and May 2, 2022.
Meanwhile, the DOJ reported 27-year-old William John Ewing III, of Nashville, was found guilty of the bank robbery at the Regions Bank, as well as brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. When Ewing is sentenced on Jan. 23, 2025, he faces seven years to life in federal prison.
According to officials, Carney and Ewing stole more than $15,000 from the Regions Bank in Smyrna. In addition, during the incident at the First Horizons Bank in Nashville, Carney allegedly fired a round that hit a door.
"This sentence sends another strong message to those who commit violent crimes in our district that we will prosecute these cases to the fullest extent of the law," said Acting U.S. Attorney Thomas J. Jaworski for the Middle District of Tennessee. "The community will be now safe from this defendant for decades. Our office is thankful for partnerships with multiple law enforcement agencies throughout middle Tennessee and northern Alabama that made this result possible."
The DOJ said this case was investigated by the FBI's Nashville field office; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); the Metro Nashville Police Department; the Murfreesboro Police Department; the Ardmore Police Department; the Greenbrier Police Department; the Smyrna Police Department; and the Moulton, Alabama, Police Department.
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