Ten years ago, convicted cocaine felon Darryl Alderson was arrested for tossing a half pound brick of cocaine from his speeding car in South Nashville as police tried to stop him on Una Antioch Pike, about 5 miles from the Rutherford County line. That arrest came just months after Alderson received a three-year probated sentence in a felony cocaine case. Alderson was convicted of possessing and tossing the cocaine brick and was sentenced to 16 years.
Over the ensuing few weeks, the State of Tennessee issued a parole violation warrant against Alderson and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms obtained a federal arrest warrant charging Alderson with unlawful gun possession. Late yesterday, detectives from the Crime Gun and Gang Units of the Specialized Investigations Division, ATF agents and the TBI located Alderson at an apartment on Laurel Street near the Gulch. As they took him into custody, he was found to be armed with another loaded gun. During the execution of a search warrant at Alderson's apartment, detectives found nearly $55,000 in cash, 3.5 pounds of cocaine, cutting agents, pills, a drug press and a small amount of marijuana.
A search of a storage unit rented by Alderson in South Nashville was completed late this afternoon. From it, detectives seized an Audi sedan, a motorcycle, a drug press, paraphernalia with drug residue, ammunition and an empty gun box.
Source: Release from the Metro Nashville Police Department
