Caught on camera: Thief uses backyard as driveway for East Nashville theft
The thief not only steals when it’s light outside, but uses the homeowner’s backyard as a makeshift driveway.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - It takes a bold person to steal from someone’s back porch while the sun is up.
But to allegedly use the homeowner’s backyard as a driveway to commit the crime? Even bolder.
East Nashville resident Mathew Stewart has lived on Pennock Avenue for two years, where the only crime he’s been a victim of has stayed to his cars on the street.
“It wasn’t very apparent that something was wrong,” Stewart said.
Stewart was working inside Tuesday morning, when all of a sudden, he heard a noise he didn’t think much of at the time.
Eventually, through surveillance video, he’d piece together that the noise was a man making off with his valuables.
“About an hour later, [after the noise] I come to open the back window to my porch for my cat, he likes to look out,” Stewart recalled. “I usually see my big smoker there, my pellet smoker, and it was gone. So, I immediately come outside and notice that everything is gone. My smoker, my gas grill, my other smoker, my lawn mower.”
The thief stole two smokers, a lawn mower, a weed eater, and two lawn chairs in his five-minute spree.
“It just sucks, it was like two thousand dollars’ worth of stuff combined,” Stewart said. “I’m a big avid cooker and smoker of meats, now that’s gone.”
After police reviewed the footage, they identified the alleged thief as Glen Trawick after an incident a few days before on May 12, according to an arrest report. Officials recognized Trawick’s car with the same rust above the rear tire as well as the tattoo on his forearm.
Police arrested Trawick, and he was charged with attempted aggravated burglary.
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