Tourist Sharmaine Vestal — too drunk and too wet in downtown Nashville
Tiara Wilson charged with DUI 2nd offense after East Nashville crash
Vanderbilt Student Matthew Liendo jailed with drugs after disorderly conduct at women’s dorm
Second Nitrous Balloon vendor arrested in downtown Nashville — Bilal Walk
DUI: Michelle Jacobs asleep behind the wheel with a handgun
Saul Arambula test drives car & doesn’t come back
Tyche Lewis jailed after firing shot during argument
Matthew Brecht flees from police, they meet him at his house
Malena McKinney jailed for public intoxication in downtown Nashville
Benjamin McCay found inside country club with stolen jewelry from nearby home
42-year-old Charles Trimm was charged with domestic assault this month after police say he grabbed Dorrie Phillips by the back of the neck and the top of her chest in downtown Nashville. Responding officers were able to view video of the assault from the J.W. Marriott security cameras. The victim was transported to the hospital after she had a panic attack after the assault, and Trimm was taken into custody.
62-year-old Billy Hentz fled from a crash scene earlier this month in Hermitage. Angelique Spitaliere told police he fled after crashing into her vehicle and that he appeared to be intoxicated. He was observed in the nearby Publix parking lot, sitting in the front seat of his white Ford Taurus. Hentz told police he was on his way home from Double E’s Bar & Grill, where he consumed two beers and stopped in the Publix parking lot to attend to a flat tire. Officers noted extensive front-end damage to his vehicle, which had open alcohol containers and a firearm inside. Hentz performed poorly on field sobriety tests and was charged with DUI 2nd, among other charges.
20-year-old Krissy Michelle Pratt told police that when she arrived at South Hills Hospital in October with multiple gunshot wounds, she had no idea who shot her or why. She explained she was outside her car inspecting a flat tire and heard gunshots in the distance and was shot and driven to the hospital by a bystander. Believing there was more to the story, Detectives were granted a search warrant on her cell phone and account. They retrieved multiple messages between Pratt and other parties that reveal she knew all of the other parties involved, including who shot her and why and was wielding a firearm herself. A warrant was issued charging her with felony filing a false report and underage handgun possession.
30-year-old Kawtar Y. Azzouzi is charged with DUI after police say she stopped and then drove through a red light at the intersection of 46th Ave and Charlotte Pike. A traffic stop was conducted, and she admitted to drinking “one beer” just prior to driving. She reportedly smelled of alcohol and had trouble standing. She performed poorly on field sobriety tests and was taken into custody. Azzouzi blew a 0.185% BAC on a breathalyzer and admitted to being “drunk” during transport.
27-year-old British tourist Elliot Williams faces charges from two separate incidents this week in downtown Nashville. On Tuesday, he and a friend, Patrick Doran, were harassing multiple vendors on Broadway. Williams punched Conor Patrick Wall in the face, causing him to fall and hit his head. The victim was transported to Vanderbilt, where the attending physician said he may have sustained a brain injury. Williams fled the scene back to his room at the DoubleTree Hotel, where police were called a short time later after he reportedly assaulted his wife, Jenny Moore. She states the two were in an argument, and when she tried to leave the hotel room, he blocked the doorway and struck her in the face. She had a busted lip and was bleeding from the assault, along with a small pool of blood on the bed. During this interaction, police recognized Williams from the earlier incident on Broadway, and he was taken into custody for both incidents.
Police say 47-year-old Patrick Doran walked up to a hot dog vendor on Broadway in downtown Nashville, grabbed a hot dog without paying, took a bit of it, and put it back on the cart. The vendor began to argue with Doran, and other street vendors, who Doran and another man had also been harassing, also became involved. Jacob Phillips attempted to intervene when Doran punched him in the face. Doran and the other man involved in the fight, Elliot Williams, fled the scene. A short time later, police came across them during an unrelated incident at a nearby hotel. He was positively identified by his clothing and British accent.
After 34-year-old Justin William Record crashed his vehicle on Charlotte Pike at 2 a.m. Wednesday, and overturned his car into a small group of trees, he told police he had been rear-ended by another car that caused him to flip his vehicle. His girlfriend, who was traveling in a vehicle behind him, states Justing “just went off the road.” He admitted to consuming two shots and two to three beers at Copa Cabana Bar & Grill, a bar directly across the street, just before driving. He performed poorly on field sobriety tests and, once at booking, was found to have two small baggies with traces amounts of a white powdery substance. Deputies also located a twenty dollar bill with the same white powdery substance.
27-year-old content creator Alexis Jernia, whose real name is Alexis Roberts, was charged last Saturday with domestic assault after she reportedly punched her mother, Eydie Scott, in the eye and chest bumping her during an argument. Alexis’ sister told police she didn’t see the fight, but she did hear it. Alexis admitted to swinging at the victim but didn’t remember making contact. a
48-year-old Jason Raymond Oxford was sitting at a traffic light at a Rivergate intersection and nodded off while parked in the lane. The car behind him was a Goodlettsville Police Officer, who pulled alongside Oxford to check on him after he sat through two light cycles. He observed Oxford slumped over the wheel asleep. Another officer arrived, and they blocked the vehicle from the front and back and then woke Oxford. He stated he had “two beers” at the Nashville Predators Hockey game, and officers confirmed he reeked of alcohol. On the floorboard, officers also located a pill bottle with marijuana inside. Oxford is the Director of Corporate Development for the Nashville Predators.
37-year-old Joshua Caine Soto is charged with DUI (per se) after allowing someone who was intoxicated to drive his vehicle late Tuesday night. Officers were dispatched to a crash on I-40W near exit 206, where Soto was a passenger in the vehicle which was registered to him. After the driver was taken into custody for DUI, Soto was also charged with DUI Per Se for knowingly allowing an intoxicated person to drive his vehicle.
30-year-old Russian tourist Oleg Belonogov was charged with public intoxication on December 21st. According to police, Oleg refused to leave the EG&MC Restaurant and Bar on Jefferson St when asked and began to annoy other customers. When officers arrived at the bar, they offered to give Oleg a ride home or to his hotel, but he refused and told officers he would walk. Officers reported they could smell a “strong odor of alcohol” coming from his breath and that Oleg was unable to walk on his own safely, so he was taken into custody.
26-year-old Koy Stewart, while dressed in a Santa costume and extremely intoxicated, broke into the Wildhorse Saloon in the early hours of Thursday morning. Security video shows after he forced the door open, he walked upstairs and laid on a shuffleboard table. Police arrived after a public works employee, Johnny Pete, witnessed him enter the closed and locked venue. Officers arrived and sent a K-9 into the building, and Stewart was located sitting on the floor. He was charged with aggravated trespassing and public intoxication.
27-year-old Ryan Ward was booked into the Metro Nashville Jail Wednesday on an outstanding warrant from the Summer, charging him with assault. Brandon Baggett says he was at a party when Ryan Ward and Daniel Herndon shoved him face-first into the concrete patio near a pool and forcefully pushed him into the concrete, leaving injuries to his abdomen, knees, and hand.
Police responded to the UPS parking lot on Whites Creek Pike Tuesday morning after multiple reports of a man passed out behind the wheel of a truck that had struck multiple vehicles. Officers arrived to find 24-year-old Chrestien Jordan Ivey, who stated he drove there to look for a red truck when he was in a collision in the parking lot. It wasn’t immediately clear why he was searching for another vehicle. Ivey admitted to taking a Percocet and smoking marijuana prior to driving and was nodding off during the interaction. He performed poorly on field sobriety tests and was charged with DUI.
25-year-old Olivia Grant was charged with a DUI on December 19. According to police, Olivia crashed her jeep while driving home from downtown Nashville when she went the wrong way onto an interstate onramp due to being tired. Olivia admitted to police that she had consumed “one beer and one shot of tequila.” She was transported to East Precinct to complete a field sobriety test. Officers report she was unable to walk a straight line, keep her head straight, unable to keep her balance, or keep her arms at her side during the test. She consented to a breathalyzer test and was transported to Metro Nashville Jail, where she blew a .218% BAC.
33-year-old Laretha Wheeler & 41-year-old Jamie Pfitzner were charged with theft on December 18th after police say they were caught on video taking two guitars, valued at $1,478.99, from Guitar Center on November 1st just before closing. Video evidence shows Laretha selling both guitars back to Guitar Center the next day. Police say they were able to identify both suspects by cross-referencing Facebook profiles and screenshots of the security footage provided by Guitar Center.
Edgar Rodriguez was arrested early Saturday morning and charged with public intoxication at the Nashville International Airport. According to police, Edgar was found at the bottom level of the airport slumped over, asleep with an opened bottle of alcohol between his feet. Officers attempted to wake him multiple times, even threatening to tase him if he didn’t stand up. Once another officer arrived on the scene, he was taken into custody and transported to the Nashville Metro Jail for booking. When asked why he was at the airport, he simply stated, “drink.”
28-year-old Mark Delgrosso was arrested early Monday morning for a DUI. According to police reports, officers were responding to a motor vehicle collision at the Ellington Pkwy S exit ramp to E Trinity Ln when Mark was found at the location. He told officers he was there to check on a friend who was involved in the crash. He told the police he had just come from a Christmas party and had “one drink.” When questioned by police, he declined all sobriety testing and was transported to jail.
55-year-old Michele Stockholm was charged with a DUI and an open container violation early Saturday morning. According to police, Michele drove her vehicle off the road at Donelson Pike and Citation Dr. When officers arrived at the scene, they found an open alcoholic container in the floorboard of her vehicle, and Michele was displaying clear signs of intoxication. Officers initiated field sobriety tests but were unable to complete them due to her level of intoxication. She was subsequently taken into custody and transported to General Hospital for a consented blood draw before being booked into jail.
19-year-old tourist Anthony Harold Bauer was asked to leave the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel late Sunday night as they determined he was not a guest at the hotel but was relaxing on a couch in the lobby, but he refused to move from the couch. He was visibly intoxicated, and despite multiple requests from officers, he refused to leave the hotel. As he was being placed under arrest for trespassing and public intoxication, he tensed up and resisted arrest. Once at the patrol car, Bauer attempted to head-butt officer Reynolds and was escorted to the side of the vehicle, and he spat on officers twice during a struggle to get him seated inside. Once at booking, Bauer exclaimed, “I’m going to p** in someone’s mouth, and they’re going to org*sm.”
Jada Branigan is charged with assault with a deadly weapon after reportedly assaulting her roommate, McKenzie Madkins. Police say Jada hit McKenzie over the head with a metal pan after McKenzie told Jada to move out. Jada says while that’s true, McKenzie hit her first. Jada had no visible injuries and refused all medical assistance, while McKenzie had a visible knot on her head and received medical assistance from Nashville Fire Medics.
20-year-old Cedriyonna Krisea Gaines & 20-year-old Miracle Yaquiash-Roshay Hall are each charged with felony theft after they filled up a shopping cart and plastic shopping bags and pushed it all out of the JCPenny store inside Rivergate Mall just after lunch on December 17th. Craig Vogel witnessed them boosting the merchandise and as they were loading the merchandise into a vehicle blocked them in, causing them to flee on foot. A police officer detained them nearby and returned them to the store, where the theft was confirmed on video. The total value of the merchandise was $2,325.00.
38-year-old Jeremy Morphis told police he consumed “two beers” before crashing his vehicle Sunday night with a passenger, Heather Knalls, inside. Witnesses say he was weaving and suddenly swerved to the left, crashing into the woods. Morphis was transported to the hospital with minor injuries. Knalls, however, suffered a dislocated and fractured hip from the crash. He is charged with DUI and felony vehicular assault. In August, Judge Jennifer Smith gave Morphis a deferred judgment with no conviction for placing a hidden camera in the bathroom of his home to record an underage relative for sexual gratification.
20-year-old Troinesha Henderson says her boyfriend, Nashville rapper Famous Kass (aka Jaylin Patton), brought another girl to their home late Thursday night and told Troinesha she needed to leave. She stayed downstairs after Jaylin went upstairs with the unnamed female. Troinesha was packing her belongings the following morning when she began arguing with Jaylin as he came downstairs to get food. She says she was holding a machete “for self-defense” purposes and began swinging it at Jaylin, leaving some cuts and scratches on him. Jaylin took the blade from her and stored it atop the kitchen cabinets, and placed her outside of the front door, along with all of her belongings, before locking the door. Troinesha called 911, but was also determined to be the primary aggressor and was taken to jail.
36-year-old Adam Walker was “highly intoxicated” at the TA truck stop in downtown Nashville early Sunday morning, alarming employees enough to contact police. Officers found him to be unsteady on his feet and obviously under the influence, unable to care for himself. Walker was taken into custody and charged with public intoxication.
