8:00 PM,
Mar. 6, 2013

Russell Brothers Jr. stands by his airplane, which he landed in April at a closed East Nashville airpark.

Written by

Bobby Allyn
| The Tennessean

A 75-year-old Dickson County man with a long and legendary criminal past is now facing five federal charges for being a convicted felon in possession of 16 firearms, the U.S. Attorney General's office in Nashville announced on Wednesday.

Russell Brothers Jr., of Burns, Tenn., who gained the spotlight last April after emergency landing his vintage airplane on a grass strip at a shuttered East Nashville airport, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of having rifles, shotguns and handguns illegally.

Brothers, in addition, is being charged with obstruction of justice for ...