To Catch A Crook, Rhonda Vincent Goes Sherlock Holmes

After the release of Only Me, (a double CD with a country track and a bluegrass track), we knew there was more to the singer than just what we saw on the surface, but after she successfully pulled off a sting (single handedly), to catch a thief, we see there is even more than we imagined!

It all started some time ago when Rhonda noticed money missing from her tour bus safe. The band would come off of the road and store the bus at a place called Hemphill Brothers Coach Company in White’s Creek, Tennessee. If the bus was on the road, the cash was safe, but the minute it went into storage, money would disappear. She bought an alarm clock with a micro-camera embedded in it and sat it by the safe. Then she took about six grand in cash and dusted it with a special powder that will leave a residue on the hands of anyone who touches it for at least 30 days.

Once she dropped the bus off at Hemphill, the game was on. It wasn't long before a worker got on the bus, looking as though he were going to clean it. After a check to make sure he was alone, he opened the safe, pocketed the cash and thought he had gotten away with it. He had laid the camera/clock face down but not soon enough to keep it from recording evidence that, combined with the power residue on his hands, was enough to convict him. Rhonda's disguise, a dark wig, cowboy hat, oversized T-shirt and fake smokes, helped her get on the bus to retrieve the video footage without anyone knowing she was there.

With Adam Parker now no longer in the picture, other stars who use Hemphill don't have to worry and the folks at Hemphill can rest easy too. Rhonda told WSMV that an employee told her that theft from stored buses had been a "black cloud over this place for a long time." As for Parker, he pled guilty, but chalked it up as just a "mistake."

WSMV Channel 4

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