Search Warrant Reveals Where Stolen Dodge Challenger Was Stripped Down To A Shell

Violent Crimes detectives today executed a search warrant on a garage in the 5700 block of Cane Ridge Road and recovered evidence showing that was the place where a Dodge Challenger stolen in Murfreesboro on January 29 was stripped of its parts.

Two men, Jeremy Smith, 31, and Tyler Whitney, 29, were arrested early Tuesday after they were stopped on Greer Road in a pickup truck that was pulling a trailer partially covered by a tarp. On the trailer was the stripped Challenger that was only a shell of the original vehicle.

Smith, who was driving the pickup truck, told detectives upon their approach that he didn’t steal the Challenger, he just picked it up on the side of the road. Smith changed his story multiple times, finally saying that he had picked up the car from a property on Cane Ridge Road.

Smith and Whitney are both charged with vehicle theft and evidence tampering. Both remain in custody on $75,000 bond. The investigation is ongoing.