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Crime & Arrests

John Tristen Mitchell steals ex-girlfriend’s laundry basket; assaults sister on same day

October 27, 20221 min read jsteen

Police say 26-year-old John Tristen Mitchell forcibly entered the residence of his ex-girlfriend, Catherine Parker, on October 15th. Once inside her home, he began to break light fixtures and other glass objects that belongs to Parker. Prior to leaving, he took her laundry basket, emptied the contents on the floor, and absconded with the laundry basket. On that same day, Mitchell met with his sister, McKenzie Mitchell, on Charlotte Pike and got into a verbal argument. He escalated the argument into an assault by pulling his sister’s hair and pushing her to the ground, where he punched and slapped her in the face multiple times before fleeing the scene. Mitchell is charged with aggravated burglary, domestic assault, theft, and vandalism.

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Mitarius Boyd jailed after dispute over PlayStation 5 at Nashville Best Buy

October 27, 20221 min read jsteen

21-year-old Mitarius Boyd was jailed Wednesday after causing a disruption and refusing to leave a Nashville Best Buy store when they didn’t have a PlayStation 5 in stock. Just before lunch, he entered the Best Buy at 2311 Gallatin Pike and got into an argument with a store employee who told him there were no PS5’s in stock. He loudly confronts multiple employees until the General Manager, Jason Connally, asked him to leave the store due to his loud and disruptive behavior. He refused, demanding to see the store’s policy on paper that allowed them to remove him. Officers arrived at the location and gave him an opportunity to walk away and out of the store, yet Boyd continued to refuse to leave and began arguing with officers. He was taken into custody and charged with criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.

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America Michel beat ex-boyfriend with passport, poured shaken soda on him

October 27, 20221 min read jsteen

21-year-old America Michel Xiqui-Vega says she stopped working at the Viva Market on Monday due to the toxic relationships with her co-workers, which included her ex-boyfriend, Alder Pablo-Pascual. She returned to the store Tuesday to speak with the manager, and her ex, Pablo, was working. She became upset with him, shook a soda bottle she was carrying, poured it all over her ex, then took out her passport and began slapping him with it. Store security video captured the entire incident. She is charged with domestic assault.

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Charles Schubert charged with overnight DUI at Hermitage Ave shell in downtown Nashville

October 26, 20221 min read jsteen

28-year-old Charles Schubert crashed his vehicle at the Shell on Hermitage Ave in downtown Nashville in the overnight hours of Tuesday. Officers arrived to find him standing outside his vehicle, where he admitted to consuming “1-2 drinks” prior to driving. He refused field sobriety tests and breath and blood samples. Schubert was transported to booking and charged with DUI.

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Daniel Hagen jailed after making online threats & false allegations against Musician Alex Angelo

October 26, 20221 min read jsteen

48-year-old Nashville amateur musician Daniel Lee Hagan is charged with two counts of harassment after police say he made false and threatening online posts about a Nashville professional musician Alex Angelo Gutierrez on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. The allegations include accusing the musician of murdering people and that Alex and his mother and father are running an underground pedophilia and child molestation ring within the Nashville music industry. Hagen reportedly threatened to harm in his posts, along with Alex’s father and manager, Alex ‘Bo Matthews’ Gutierrez. [screenshots in story]

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Germari Jones steals & pawns the airpods of the man he’s spending the night with

October 26, 20221 min read jsteen

Jakir Wills says he had 19-year-old Germari Jones over to sleep at his house on September 24th & 25th. After Jones left, he was unable to locate his AirPods. Using the tracker feature, he pinpointed them to be at the Easy Pawn on Dickerson Pike. Police contacted the pawn shop, which provided a copy of the ID used to pawn the AirPods, which belonged to Gemari Jones. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Jones and was served on him Tuesday after he was in a traffic collision, and his name was run through the police database.

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Porshia Buchanan doesn’t accept relationship is over, attacks lover & rips her bra, breaks coffee table, destroys kitchen

October 26, 20221 min read jsteen

34-year-old Porshia Buchanan has been in a relationship with Santarius Bradford for “several years,” according to a police report, until recently, when Ms. Bradford ended the relationship. Ms. Buchanan, however, did not end the relationship and continues to threaten her ex-lover. Police say Buchanan walked into Bradford’s apartment and assaulted her, grabbing her by the shirt and tearing her bra, breaking the living room table, and pouring water onto the couch. She then swiped everything off the kitchen counters and table, telling the victim she’d have a male friend “get her.”

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Maya Tolliver drove to Vanderbilt, parked on sidewalk, picked her own hospital room to rest in

October 26, 20221 min read jsteen

Police say 32-year-old Maya Tolliver drove to Vanderbilt Hospital and parked her car on the sidewalk outside of the hospital. She then walked inside, took an elevator to the 5th floor, where she located a vacant patient room, and made herself at home. Nurses located Tolliver and contacted police. Officers say she reeked of alcohol and marijuana and was unaware of her current surroundings. She was verbally aggressive in response to questions. An officer asked if she would like to seek medical treatment via the ED since she was already at Vanderbilt, to which she replied: “you can go seek help!” She was transported to booking and charged with public intoxication.

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Ronaldo Morris charged in assault of alleged lover who says he saw him with a woman

October 25, 20221 min read jsteen

Police arrived at the South Nashville apartment of 20-year-old Ronaldo Morris and Jason Tyrese Daley in the early hours of Sunday morning to a report of the two fighting. Daley told police the two are lovers and in a dating relationship; however, Morris denied that and said the two are simply just roommates. Daley stated they got into an argument in his bedroom after he saw Morris with a woman. The argument escalated when Morris reportedly pushed Daley in the face and scratched him on the hands and neck. A video recording captured the incident and shows the victim backing away while Morris assaults him multiple times. and officers documented a cut on the victim’s lip, hand, and neck.

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DUI: Brian Hubert charged after crashing into parked cars in downtown Nashville

October 25, 20221 min read jsteen

Police say 37-year-old Brian Hubert struck several parked vehicles in downtown Nashville after he drank a 24oz Mexican beer and 12oz mule drink prior to driving. Hubert claims he was driving his 2022 Chevrolet Traverse when another vehicle was coming toward him on 5th Ave N, and he moved over, causing him to strike multiple vehicles. He performed poorly on field sobriety tests and was charged with driving under the influence.

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Newton ‘NJ’ Ford calls concierge a b*tch, and a bystander a ‘midget’ during Skyhouse confrontation

October 25, 20222 min read jsteen

Police say 36-year-old Newton ‘NJ’ Ford attempted to get into the SkyHouse apartments tower when the concierge stopped him as he was not a resident had didn’t have any authorization to be there. This resulted in Ford hurling obscenities at the concierge, such as “b**ch,” and stating he would spit in her face if it weren’t illegal. While police were there, Ford had reentered the lobby with a resident and continued where he left off with the verbal assault on the concierge. A bystander in the lobby, David Malinosky, had identified Ford, to which he replied “I’ll fight you, midget!” — Officers noted Ford was only three inches taller than the bystander. He then pumped out his chest in a laughable attempt to intimidate the bystander. He was also in possession of 4 grams of marijuana at the time of his arrest.

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Nashville FD Medic Abigail Smith charged in assault of husband, punching him until he cried, per video

October 25, 20222 min read jsteen

27-year-old Abigail Smith, who is a paramedic with the Nashville Fire Department, is charged with felony aggravated assault after a video shows her drunkenly picking up a wine bottle and moving toward her husband, Nicholas Wood, who she then grabbed by the hair and hit multiple times in the head until he was crying.

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Zachary Duke charged after tossing beer can onto ice during Predators game

October 24, 20221 min read jsteen

39-year-old Zachary Duke of Manchester, TN, has been booked on a citation charging him with disorderly conduct for throwing a beer can onto the ice during a Nashville Predators Game on September 29th. Officers say he threw the can of beer while the game was in play, causing a disruption of the game.

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Jail Call: Akeen Warner begs that he “doesn’t wanna end up on Scoop” for child rape

October 23, 20222 min read jsteen

36-year-old Akeen Warner was arrested on September 11th after he returned to the home of his ex-girlfriend after an argument. His ex, Doresha Blakely, was still hiding in the bathroom, which he entered while holding a gun at his side. As police arrived and knocked on the door, he demanded the victim move to the back bedroom with the juvenile children and remain quiet. He eventually surrendered to SRT officers after they arrived and de-escalated the situation. At some point during the incident, the victim retained Warnier’s cell phone.

At a later time, the victim would receive a phone call from one of Warner’s friends, asking her to delete specific images from his cell phone which captured him raping a five-year-old child. On a recorded jail phone call, he begged her not to tell the police, stating, “I don’t want to end up on Scoop!” [details in the linked story may be graphic]

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Former State Rep Jeremy Durham charged with DUI in late night downtown Nashville crash

October 23, 20222 min read jsteen

Former State Representative Jeremy Durham was arrested overnight by the Metro Nashville Police Department. He is charged with driving under the influence, resisting arrest, and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. A judicial commissioner set his bond at $2,000, and the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office gave him pre-trial release from their facility.

Just after 11 p.m. Saturday, Metro Nashville police responded to 1st & Broadway, where 38-year-old Jeremy Durham was involved in a motor vehicle collision. Officer Cote observed indicators of impairment to include slurred speech, dilated pupils, and Durham was unsteady on his feet.

Mr. Durham tried to walk away, at which point he was detained in a patrol car. Officers report they could smell the obvious odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his breath and person, his eyes were bloodshot and watery, and his speech appeared slow and mumbled.

When requested to perform field sobriety tests, Durham simply replied, “lawyer,” and gave the same answer repeatedly when asked about a blood test. Due to the other driver being injured, a search warrant was requested for Durham’s blood.

During a search incident to the arrest of Durham, officers located a green metal grinder with marijuana residue. He was additionally charged with possession of paraphernalia. When Officer Cote was placing him in handcuffs, he physically resisted by trying to pull away from Officer Cote, trying to prevent being secured in handcuffs.