Jamie Lee Bradley
General Sessions Court Judge Lila Statom on Friday set a $75,000 bond for Jamie Dewayne Bradley, 38, after a man testified of an armed theft of his car outside Church’s Chicken on Rossville Boulevard in 2012.
The victim, Thomas Springs, said when he got off work, he and his wife went to the restaurant to purchase dinner.
She went inside while he waited in the car.
While his wife was inside, an unknown white male approached the car with a silver handgun and demanded that Mr. Springs exit his vehicle or he would be shot. Mr. Springs complied and then walked into the restaurant before the suspect fled in the car out the back entrance of the parking lot in an unknown direction.
Mr. Springs said, “I’ve never had a gun put on me before.”
The entire exchange took only 30 seconds to a minute, and the victim called the police after going inside.
The responding officers had Mr. Springs write a detailed account of what happened before discovering that none of the employees at Church’s had seen the incident and that the video cameras outside had not captured it either. Several days later, however, the victim was able to pick Bradley’s photo out of a lineup.
Mr. Springs said that his car was recovered several weeks later and that when he got it back, it was full of the suspect’s belongings. He listed clothes, a tattoo gun, and miscellaneous other items, but he could not find a name to indicate who had taken the vehicle.
The defendant has a record of criminal impersonation and theft over $500 in Ringgold as well as theft and criminal trespassing in Catoosa County and a charge of illegally carrying a concealed weapon in another county.
Officer Jacques Weary said Bradley went to Mississippi after allegedly taking the vehicle. He said he inserted Bradley into a photo lineup after getting information that he was a suspect.