A woman on parole for robbery and two men are in custody after they held up two women at gunpoint early Sunday morning at the intersection of 4th Avenue South and Molloy Street in downtown Nashville.
Bertina Baker, 25, and Lawrence Brown III, 22, demanded the victims’ purses. The women, who are both in their 20s, complied. Baker and Brown fled in a silver Mercury Cougar driven by Benjamin Mimms, 20.
A short time after the robbery, Central Precinct Officer Christopher Lo spotted the suspect vehicle on Lafayette Street near Charles E. Davis Boulevard. Mimms stopped the car. All three were taken into custody. Items stolen in the robbery and a handgun were located in the Mercury. The victims positively identified Baker and Brown as the persons who robbed them. Mimms admitted he was the driver of the getaway car.
Baker, Brown, and Mimms are each charged with two counts of aggravated robbery.
At the time of the robbery, Baker was on parole until 2012 for a 2008 robbery conviction. She also has convictions for identity theft and theft. Baker, of Zermatt Avenue, is being held in lieu of $157,500 bond.
Brown, of Charles E. Davis Boulevard, has a previous arrest for drug possession. He is being held on $150,000 bond.
Mimms, of Madison, is being held on $180,000 bond.
*Photos of Baker, Brown, and Mimms are being withheld pending lineups in similar crimes.
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