Restaurant owner Thomas Courtney sentenced to 1 year in jail on DUI 3rd charge, loses license for 6 years

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Mt. Juliet Business owner Thomas Courtney was sentenced on Monday to an 11 months and 29 days jail sentence in his DUI 3rd case in Davidson County. He was already in custody for his trial after a Nashville judge revoked his bond for multiple probation violations and repeated arrests in Wilson county, who continued to ROR him back into society to continue to commit crimes without penalty. As a part of his Nashville sentence, he will be required to participate in and complete the New Avenue alcohol treatment program within the Davidson County Detention Center. After applying the automatic percentage of sentencing and time already served, Courtney is scheduled for release on July 26th of 2022, at which time he will still have trials and sentencing in Wilson County for cases including a probation violation (x3), domestic assault, and driving on a revoked license (x2). As part of his Davidson County sentence, Courtney will lose his driver’s license for six years. Judge Higgins set a special condition to Courtney’s sentence, which prevents him from petitioning the court for an early release, for any reason, other than the stand time calculations given to every inmate at the facility.



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After Mt. Juliet & Wilson County authorities declined to even require their beloved citizen to post a bond after committing a brutal assault on his fiance, or for multiple prior DUI and other related offenses, Nashville has stepped in to revoke his bond on one of his cases in Davidson County. On Thursday, both the Davidson County District Attorney and his Nashville probation officer filed separate motions with the court which were granted.

One is a violation of his probation, citing he failed a drug test on October 19th and was subsequently arrested for new charges in Wilson County. The other, a motion from ADA Laney Ann Heard, notes he has 4 pending probation violations in Wilson County, received a citation for texting-while-driving in August, in addition to the new arrests, and asks the court to revoke his bond until a hearing can be held in Nashville. Both orders were signed early yesterday and he was surrendered on the charges to the county jail, where he will remain until his next hearing, which will happen next week.

The first motion below is from the Nashville District Attorney’s office:


Thomas Courtney (MNPD)
Thomas Courtney (MNPD)

The second motion, below, is from Courtney’s Nashville probation officer:


Previously:



After Mt. Juliet & Wilson County authorities declined to even require their beloved citizen to post a bond after committing a brutal assault on his fiance, or for multiple prior DUI and other related offenses, Nashville has stepped in to revoke his bond on one of his cases in Davidson County. On Thursday, both the Davidson County District Attorney and his Nashville probation officer filed separate motions with the court which were granted.

One is a violation of his probation, citing he failed a drug test on October 19th and was subsequently arrested for new charges in Wilson County. The other, a motion from ADA Laney Ann Heard, notes he has 4 pending probation violations in Wilson County, received a citation for texting-while-driving in August, in addition to the new arrests, and asks the court to revoke his bond until a hearing can be held in Nashville. Both orders were signed early yesterday and he was surrendered on the charges to the county jail, where he will remain until his next hearing, which will happen next week.

The first motion below is from the Nashville District Attorney’s office:


Thomas Courtney (MNPD)
Thomas Courtney (MNPD)

The second motion, below, is from Courtney’s Nashville probation officer:


Previously:




51-year-old Thomas Courtney, of Mt. Juliet’s Courtney’s Restaurant & Catering, told officers he thought he was “in his bed” when they found him asleep behind the wheel of a running car late Thursday night, heavily intoxicated

Metro Nashville Police responded to the intersection of Donelson Pike and Murfreesboro Pike at 11:24 p.m. on February 25th, to a report of a man asleep behind the wheel of a silver sedan sitting in the middle of a land of traffic. Officers found Thomas Courtney, 51, slumped over the wheel asleep and beginning to wake up. The keys were in the ignition and in the ‘on’ position. They eventually got Courtney out of the vehicle, noting observing bloodshot, watery, glass eyes, and a man that reeked of alcohol, who was slurring his speech and staggering when walking.

Thomas Courtney (MNPD)
Thomas Courtney (MNPD)

A warrant details that Courtney told officers he was “in his bed” when asked where he was. A records check revealed ‘multiple prior DUI convictions and that his license status was revoked. Thomas Courtney was charged with DUI 3rd+, and driving on revoked 2+. He is free on a $9,000 bond, with multiple pending court dates across multiple counties.

A TBI Background check reveals the full history of Thomas Courtney in Tennessee. In addition to these charges, Courtney was with aggravated domestic assault in 2020, violation of interlock device, driving on revoked, and DUI 2nd, in 2019. In 2017 he faced charges of failing to appear, criminal trespass, reckless driving, SCH II drug possession, disorderly conduct, public intoxication, and unlawful weapon possession. As DUI incremental charges have a time expiry, Courtney faced a DUI 4th charged back in 2005, a DUI 3rd in 2003, as well as criminal impersonation and driving on revoked

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