Month: May 2018

Percy Priest nets 2nd BUI Arrest for Memorial Day Weekend. Shane Mains Arrested #OnABoat

Jason Steen

Barely 24 hours after the first BUI (Boating Under the Influence) arrest of Memorial Day weekend, we now have our second. Shane Allen Mains was arrested Saturday night on Percy Priest Lake after it was determined he had drank at least 6 alcoholic drinks, and was under the influence of  “a lot” of different medications, of which he couldn’t name. Per the incident report, while officers were patrolling Percy Priest Lake late Saturday evening, they noticed a vessel stop in the middle of the lake when he saw the patrol boat.…

Woman gets plastered on bottle of champagne @ bar, scoffs at police’s offer of shelter, demands to be arrested.

Jason Steen

Valentine J Law was at the DoubleTree hotel bar downtown on Thursday night, where security states she drank an entire bottle of champagne while at the hotel bar/lobby area. She was so intoxicated, that once they realized she was not an overnight guest of the hotel, police were called to check on her welfare. MNPD arrived just after 11:30 PM, and Valentine Law willingly exited the hotel with police, but did not have the means to call a friend to pick her up, due to her phone being dead. As…

Memorial Day 2018’s first BUI – Zach Cunningham Arrested #OnABoat

Jason Steen

Many consider Memorial Day weekend the ‘unofficial’ start of summer, and it only took a few hours for the first Boating Under the Influence of the season to happen. Late Friday night, Zach Cunningham was arrested and charged with BUI & Implied Consent Violation, after he was found to be drunk while driving a boat on Percy Priest Lake, and tried to hide his alcohol from officers as they neared his boat. According to a report, late Friday night, while patrolling Percy Priest Lake, an officer noticed a vessel underway displaying…

Jon Sewell reflects on Nashville’s Mayoral race with a Limerick

Jason Steen

He was the Mayor we all deserved. He was pro-marijuana, legalization of drugs and prostitution (it’s your body, and we can use the tax income on both businesses, right?). He wanted to house the homeless, use art work for traffic calming strategies, no more corporate welfare, more money for small businesses, and even have a max wage cap for CEO’s based on how much they paid their employees. It was a grand dream. And all but 92 of you fucked it up. So now all you get is this limerick…

Clerk pulls gun on customers at DB Todd Market – Tadress Ishak Arrested

Jason Steen

Tadress N Ishak, a 22 year-old clerk from the DB Todd Market, was arrested on Friday, after he pulled a gun on multiple customers when a refund was requested. According to police reports, and eyewitness accounts, the employee named above was involved in a verbal argument with three customers, which he says was over them requesting a refund. During the argument the defendant pulled out a hand gun and pointed it at the three victims. When asked about the gun, the defendant stated that one of the victims made verbal threats…

East Nashville’s ‘Ghetto’ Songwriter Ashlee K Thomas served with divorce papers

Jason Steen

East Nashville decided they had enough of “Ghetto”, a song by Ashlee K Thomas, and now, her husband has had enough of her, too. In a 4th circuit filing on Wednesday, her husband, Jason Langenfeld, filed a divorce suit against his singer-songwriter wife, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’. The filing states the couple have been separated since September 29th 2017, however both still have the same address on the filing as of yesterday. They were married in Salt Lake City, UT, in August of 2013. From all initial signs, he will keep…

1 year-old girl dead after being left in vehicle buckled in car seat all day in #EastNashville

Jason Steen

BREAKING: 1-year-old girl dies after being left in a car seat all day in a pickup truck parked at the family’s East Nashville home. Adoptive father reportedly forgot about the child after dropping off her sibling at daycare. The adoptive mother found the girl at their Virginia Ave home this evening. She was pronounced deceased upon arrival at Vanderbilt Hospital. Investigation will continue through the night. This is a developing story, we will have more updates as they become available.

35,600 Pills mailed to Nashville from Canada. Timothy Watkins Arrested.

Jason Steen

On Tuesday, A USPS parcel containing 2610 Xanax pills was delivered to 430 Tampa Drive in Nashville, by detectives from the MNPD’s Major Crimes Task Force, agents from U.S. Homeland Security, & U.S. Postal Inspectors. They made a  controlled delivery of an intercepted drug filled parcel to the Tampa Drive address. Timothy D. Watkins, 25, arrived and took control of the package, which originated in Canada.  Under miranda, he admitted that the Xanax pills were his and that he sold them. A consent search was conducted at 3527 Albee Drive…

Metro Council Candidate Sylvester Armor: Real Estate License Suspended, Ignoring Garnishments for 25K+

Jason Steen

Sylvester Armor is running for the hotly contested District 1 City Council seat in Nashville – an election that happens this Thursday (05/24). In his interviews and articles about his campaign, he touts his experience as a real estate agent, and while he technically is a realtor, the truth is that he’s been operating illegally for several months, until Scoop: Nashville brought it to his attention on Tuesday. He couldn’t manage to keep his real-estate license fees up-to-date with the state. According to the state of Tennessee, it was illegal…

“Can I just give you who the real dealers are, I don’t even deal much” – Tony Tejada #Arrested

Jason Steen

Late Monday night, Rene Antonio Tejada (“Tony”), was the driver of a 2004 Nissan Frontier parked at the Kangaroo Express on Haywood Lane. MNPD observed a male white open the passenger door of Tejada’s vehicle and make an exchange and then the passenger closed the door of the Frontier and got into the passenger side of another vehicle. Tejada  left the location immediately, while officers conducted a terry stop on the male white that was the other half of the transaction. This individual cooperated and told officers that he purchased…