Police arrest man allegedly trading electronics for drugs

Metro Police believe they have ended, at least for now, a Hunters Lane man’s reliance on televisions and other property of south Nashville residents to fund his drug habit.

Christopher Lance Jackson, 37, is facing two counts of aggravated burglary after a Harding Place condominium owner came home Wednesday to find Jackson allegedly driving away with his flat screen TV and computer system, police said.

The victim followed Jackson to Sunrise Apartments on Wallace Road and called police, according to release. When officers arrived, they discovered that this was not Jackson’s first trip to the apartment to allegedly trade electronics for drugs, police said. Officers also recovered a flat screen television allegedly taken during a home burglary on Lawndale Drive on Tuesday.

Police say Jackson, who is being held in lieu of $50,000 bond, is also under investigation for his likely involvement in multiple burglary and theft cases in the area.

Two other people at the apartment were arrested on drug charges and other offenses, police said.

Eric Lamond Jones, 35, is charged with unlawful cocaine possession, unlawful use of drug paraphernalia (after digital scales with cocaine residue were found), and smuggling cocaine into the Metro Jail, police said. Bond for Jones is set at $45,000.

Suzanne Elizabeth Stevens, 36, Jackson’s wife, is charged with unlawful cocaine possession, unlawful use of drug paraphernalia, criminal impersonation (for giving police a fictitious name), and being a fugitive from justice, police said. Stevens is wanted in Florida for probation violation. Her bond is set at $260,500. She may also face burglary and theft charges at the investigation continues, police said.

“These arrests are significant because illegal drug activity is behind many of Nashville’s burglary and theft cases,” Chief Ronal Serpas said in a release. “As South Precinct detectives have found, this case goes full circle.”

— Staff reports