A convicted felon with a history of violence remains jailed following his arrest Tuesday by TITANS (The Investigative Team Addressing Neighborhood Shootings) detectives in possession of three semi-automatic pistols, two of them stolen.
Eric Blivens, 25, received a four-year probated sentence in April 2021 for being armed and physically attacking his 21-year-old girlfriend. He received a four-year sentence in February 2020 for felony reckless endangerment, felony evading arrest and unlawful gun possession by a convicted felon. Blivens received a three-year sentence in 2016 for aggravated burglary. Any one of those felony convictions prohibit Blevins from having firearms.
On Tuesday, TITANS detectives spotted Blivens in the Napier-Sudekum neighborhood, knew that he was wanted on outstanding probation violation and domestic assault warrants, and followed him to Moorewood Drive. He was taken into custody there after parking his vehicle.
The three guns were found inside the car. One, a nine-millimeter semi-automatic, was stolen during the burglary of a parked pickup truck on 12th Avenue South in November 2021. Another nine-millimeter pistol was reported stolen from a car in Murfreesboro in January of this year. A .40-caliber semi-automatic pistol was also recovered.
Blivens is being held without bond on the probation violation warrant. Detectives will be asking the United States Attorney’s Office to consider prosecuting him federally.
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Eric Blivens, 25
