Two Montgomery County residents have been arrested in connection to the search for a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Top Ten Most Wanted fugitive last year in Stewart and Montgomery counties.
A TBI release says 40-year old Derek Eugene Summers and 32-year old Mindy Elaine Harris were indicted Monday by the Stewart County Grand Jury on one count of Accessory after the Fact. Summers, who is currently being held in the Cheatham County Jail on an unrelated charge, was served with the arrest warrant Tuesday. Harris was arrested and booked at the Stewart County Jail. They are each being held on a $20,000 bond.
On September 23rd, at the request of 23rd District Attorney General Ray Crouch, TBI Agents and deputies from the sheriff’s office began investigating a homicide that had occurred that day on Rorie Hollow Road in Indian Mound. During the course of the investigation, TBI agents developed information that stolen property from that homicide was located at the Woodlawn residence of Summers and Harris. TBI officials say the investigation further revealed that Kirby Wallace, the subject of a manhunt in that homicide, had been at the couple’s residence sometime after the homicide had occurred.
According to media reports, the Stewart County Grand Jury has also indicted Wallace on charges of first-degree murder, felony murder, first degree attempted murder, two counts of especially aggravated robbery, aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated arson.
As previously reported by the News Edge, Wallace was added to the TBI’s Ten Most Wanted List in September. Multiple law enforcement agencies launched conducted a massive search for 13 days Wallace until he was taken into custody on October 5 in a wooded area near the Montgomery-Stewart County line by Henry County Sheriff Monte Bellew and Corporal Stacy Bostick.
