Richard Smith, 53, is jailed in lieu of a $15,000 bond after police say he sold them fake drugs and then attempted to eat the money they used to buy the fake drugs with, in an attempt to destroy any evidence of the transaction.
Year: 2019
You can now pay for The Contributor with Venmo
Vendors of Nashville’s homeless newspaper, The Contributor, are now accepting electronic payments through Venmo. If you choose to support a vendor while stopped in traffic, you can take the paper and pay when you have arrived safely to your destination.
Bail Bond company owner indicted for hiring felon as bounty hunter
Allan Debowsky, of Debo’s Bail Bond Company, found himself in an odd situation Wednesday, as he became a wanted man, with Metro Nashville looking to place cuffs on him, instead of his usual placing cuffs on people he’s surrendering. He is charged with hiring a felon to work as a bounty hunter.
News Channel 5 issues statement on Gay Pride logo branding, denies removed due to controversy
News Channel 5 says an employee posted, then removed, Gay Pride logo because “it had not gone through our usual process of discussion and approval”.. & “was in no way meant to indicate a lack of support for the LGBTQ community, either from the station or the employee involved”
Man charged with rape/sexual battery of 3 children under 13 years old
The Davidson County Grand Jury has indicted 58-year-old Washington Saltos on 2 counts of rape of a child, and 4 counts of aggravated sexual battery, involving 3 victims under the age of 13.
Man vandalizes MNPD patrol car, causes $1,500 in damages with feet
Metro Police say Demetrius Harris was being arrested for kidnapping when he caused approximately $1,500 in damages to the patrol car they placed him in before they read his charge to him, by kicking the screen and rear door, causing it to no longer fully close.
Nashville LGBT Chamber ‘disappointed’ in News Channel 5 for removing Gay Pride branding after viewer backlash.
Many LGBT organizations and businesses, now including the Nashville LGBT Chamber of Commerce, are calling attention to local CBS affiliate, WTVF News Channel 5, for removing their gay pride logo branding after backlash from viewers on social media. The LGBT Chamber says they are disappointed and ‘they need to stand strong and not back down.’
Nashville CBS Affiliate Pulls Gay Pride Month logo after backlash
Nashville’s local CBS Affiliate, WTVF – News Channel 5, spent about an hour today realizing how many people in Tennessee feel all their lives. The station changed its logo to a rainbow for pride month, but after hundreds of threats and negative comments, quickly deleted it from social media, along with the comments, as if it never happened.
Passed out in a parking garage; too drunk for the ER
Monica Hoffmeyer, from Cookeville, was found passed out in a downtown parking garage, and when medics took her to the hospital, she earned a disorderly conduct charge, in addition to public intoxication, after she caused a scene and tried to flee on foot.
Man charged with beating & kicking mother until she was unconscious: Kevonte Barnes
Metro Police have charged Kevonte Barnes with aggravated assault with serious bodily injury, after they say he repeatedly punched his mother in the head and face, before he struck her in the head with his foot, rendering her unconscious.
3 charged in armed robbery at Greyhound Station in downtown Nashville
Metro Police have charged 3 men with robbing a man at the Greyhound station downtown. Police say one of them had a gun as they assaulted a man, taking $150 and a cell phone. They are each held on a $75,000 bond, charged with aggravated robbery with a weapon.
Niido Nashville is full of (dog) shit.. and maybe the newest frat house for working adults.
Niido, Nashville’s first hybrid AirBNB/apartment complex, has gone to the dogs, literally. Residents awaken daily to hallways of dog shit, drunken people passed out, peeing from balconies into the courtyard, and elevators with fresh dog piss.
Metro Council Candidate: “Being ‘Gay’ is nothing to be proud of”
Lydia A Hubbell, a candidate for Metro Council in Nashville says “Being ‘Gay’ is nothing to be proud of, but she’s “not opposed to them
#KnockAndTalk: Man consents to search, tells marijuana location, all without a warrant
Metro Police knocked on the door of 30-year-old Drew Pate for a #KnockAndTalk (where they don’t have probable cause, but attempt to get consent to search anyway). Pate consented to a search and even told officers where his marijuana was located.
1 caught, 1 sought, in two carjackings
Metro Police say 18-year-old Estifanos Kumssa is responsible for two armed carjackings Thursday, and is now in the Metro Jail after officers spotted the stolen Jeep Liberty he was in and spiked the tires near the intersection of Murfreesboro Pike & Bell Road.
DEAD DEAL: City to table parking privatization plan
Multiple sources within the city administration now confirm that Mayor Briley’s parking privatization plan will be deferred indefinitely, effectively killing the plan. Mayor Briley’s Office
Man charged with boating under the influence of marijuana & 2 joints #OnABoat
28-year-old Blake Henderson Dunn was arrested on Saturday on Percy Priest Lake, after a TWRA officer says he admitted to smoking marijuana while operating a vessel, and for possession of two joints on the boat.
Woman beats roommate bloody with broom after she gave oral sex to her boyfriend
Metro Police say Jerri Feinstein beat her roommate with a broom until the floor was ‘covered in blood’, then called the cops and claimed self-defense. The fight was over her roommate having ‘sexual relations’ with her boyfriend.
Arrested for littering (and BUI) on the lake
Stephanie Buckley was arrested while out on the lake Saturday, when some plastic flew from her pontoon boat. When a TWRA Officer officer stopped to issue her a citation, found her to be boating under the influence. #BUI
Man savagely beats brother with guitar while allegedly high on cocaine; $2,000 missing, blood everywhere
Metro Nashville Police described the room as ‘bloody’ and ‘in shambles’ after one brother savagely beat another with a guitar, as he lay in wait
Bellevue T.J Maxx Booster Alice Forsythe Arrested
52-year-old Alice Forsythe was taken into custody Tuesday for a number of warrants she had accumulated before going to rehab, where she chose to stay for an extended period of time, delaying her arrest. Some of those included thefts from the Bellevue T.J. Maxx store.
Drunken man rushes police from behind, wipes out seconds before impact
Metro Police say a drunken Eric Law, came running up behind them while their backs were turned to him. Just before he reached them, he tripped and fell onto the ground, admitting he’d had “a few too many”, and thought they were “someone else”.
Man hired people online to dress up, wear wigs, and cash stolen checks for him
Jamaal Sinclair has been charged with burglary of an automobile. Detectives say he would steal ID’s and credit cards, then hire people online to dress up to match the stolen identity, and cash checks at the outer drive-thru lane of banks, operating as part of the ‘felony lane gang’
JAILED: “I don’t have time for a b*tch to put me in jail, because I will smack the sh*t out of you”
Zackery Wyatt was arrested after getting into a fight with his girlfriend, raising his hand and threatening to “smack the shit” out of her. He then fled the area, and left her a voicemail saying “I don’t have time for a bitch to put me in jail”. He was later located and arrested, charged with harassment.
3.8 pounds marijuana & cash seized from South Nashville home
Martha Stamps, 57, Elijah Espinal, 19, and a 17-year-old are all charged with felony marijuana possession after a Timmons Street drug raid netted 3.8 pounds of marijuana and cash
