Friday, July 23, 2010

FBI raid on former Metro Council Member Pam Murray's house? [Correct: Secret Service raided Murray's home]

Last night District 5 CM J.R. Hollin tweeted that federal agents descended on the 800 block of Stockell in East Nashville. This morning I received a forwarded e-mail from a neighbor saying that "stuff, people, and cars" were confiscated from former District 5 CM Pam Murray's house by the FBI last night. Pam Murray lives at 802 Stockell. Any other information out there on what's going on with Ms. Murray?


UPDATE: East Nashville resident, Justin comments below:

I live around the corner on 800 block of N 2nd.

In the last two weeks, Metro PD prescence has gone crazy. Round the clock patrols, harassing anyone on the street, my neighbor (who helped Hollin get elected) was mowing my lawn and the police told him he had no business being there. Its been like a mini police state. Pam's been cruising the street ever since this has been going on, and has been behind at least some of the complaint calls to Metro. When my previously mentioned neighbors house was raided by SWAT, finding a really dangerous small bag of pot, Murray was outside watching.

UPDATE: The Tennessean has the story:
Agents were at the Stockell Street home Thursday evening, "Retrieving some items related to our investigation," said Keith Perrigan, assistant special agent in charge for the Secret Service's Nashville field office. Perrigan declined to detail the nature of the probe but said nobody had been arrested Friday.

Murray said the agents were investigating her son, who was on probation for a credit card fraud conviction out of Oklahoma. "I really think it's where my son violated his probation," she said. "His probation officer came there." Her son, Patrick Merriweather, 22, was convicted last year after he and two other men were caught in Sequoyah County, Okla., trying to use a stolen credit card at a country store. Investigators later found cash, a laptop computer, several credit cards and a credit card encoding machine in his car.

6 comments:

  1. I live around the corner on 800 block of N 2nd.

    In the last two weeks, Metro PD prescence has gone crazy. Round the clock patrols, harassing anyone on the street, my neighbor (who helped Hollin get elected) was mowing my lawn and the police told him he had no business being there. Its been like a mini police state. Pam's been cruising the street ever since this has been going on, and has been behind at least some of the complaint calls to Metro. When my previously mentioned neighbors house was raided by SWAT, finding a really dangerous small bag of pot, Murray was outside watching.

    Hmmm is all I have to say.

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  2. Does she still live there? According to Davidson County court records, NES filed suit against a Paige Merriweather at that address earlier this year. Does Murray rent out the house?

    http://circuitclerk.nashville.gov/dockets/viewdocket_c.asp?ddid=16&date=2/1/2010&sn=2&sn2=9

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  3. Sean:

    Metro Planning maps list Pam Murray as the owner of the property. According to the online white pages, Pam Murray lives at 802 Stockell, although it also lists Michael V Murray, Phil R Merriweather in the household.

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  4. Pretty sure Pam lives in Detroit, no?

    I'm close friends with the folks at 806 and have walked their dog past 802 many times. There's always a bunch of folks on the porch, traffic coming and going, and absurdly nice resident-owned cars parked in the lawn (like a Jag XKR at one point). It was pretty obvious something was going on there. Will be VERY interested to see the police report.

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  5. Brandon:

    Hard to say. She insisted during the recall last year that she lived on Stockell while she was working 6a-6p M-F in Detroit. Council website also listed the Stockell address. I haven't heard since she was defeated whether she considers her residence Detroit now or not. As I pointed out, she is listed in the white pages as the primary resident at her Nashville address.

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  6. Turns out it was the Secret Service, not the FBI according to the Tennesseean.

    Something about Pam Murray's son running a stolen credit card operation. Not sure why the secret service would be involved in that, but that's what we've got for the time being.

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