Nashville, are you OK with MNPD officers taking the time to report codes violations during their shifts?
‘tall grass in yard’?, ‘too many extension cords’?, ‘hoarding’? ‘selling candy and drinks without a permit’? ALL of those are actual complaints reported by MNPD to Codes.
In a late Friday evening filing, Penny Genelle Nelson Forrest, the wife of Robert Forrest, with whom Mayor Megan Barry has been having an affair, filed for divorce from her husband.
The official 2017 Earnings for Metro Employees data was released today, here are the final numbers for Mayor Megan Barry‘s love interest, Robert Forrest, Jr. He made 197% of his metro salary in 2017 – nearly double! The fiscally responsible city would have simply added a detail member to work those overtime hours at regular pay, saving the city tens of thousands of dollars a year, instead of letting 1 person work all those Overtime hours, because he is the lover of the mayor.
5 weeks ago, we told you about ‘Tori’ (Victoria Barbee) who was selling marijuana edibles online in plain view on publicly available facebook, instagram, and snapchat. For a few weeks she took a break from selling on social media – until today. Earlier this afternoon, we received word that Victoria Barbee was back in business and openly selling edibles online, and sure enough that’s exactly what we found. See our previous post below, where she openly admits to selling marijuana edibles, the prices, and more, without any regard to legalities.…
In an exclusive report, EastNashville.news has learned in 2009 New Life Digital Media (now Music City Replication) duplicated CDs and performed other services for Starlito (Jermaine Shute) that he refused to pay for. This was a standard transaction, like any other in the industry – except Starlito wouldn’t pay the bill for services rendered and product delivered, according to a sworn affidavit. In April of 2009 New Life Digital Media sued Jermaine Shute (Starlito) in General Sessions Civil Court in Nashville, TN. Starlito wasn’t served until he signed for certified…
When we received a tip that marijuana “edibles” were being sold online here in Nashville, we thought it was probably in a private or closed group on social media, only shared to trusted friends & individuals. While we did find that was a majority of the cases, there was one glaring exception. One particular individual has taken her homemade edibles business pubic – very public, in fact – and doing so just days after her Davidson County probation ended last month. Via Instagram, Snapchat, and most notably on the much…
In our 5th installment of the ‘Party In Prison’ investigation, we hope to provide some insight into how guards/correctional officers, who are not state of Tennessee employees, have direct access to inmates in TN State prisons, and have direct links to current inmates on social media – often even the first person that is ‘friended’ on brand new social media accounts when they are created on a newly acquired cell phone by an inmate. Let’s look at an example, and you can decide if hiring 3rd party contractors to act…
Hours after we published an article last week that included TDOC Inmate Kortavious Carwell’s cell phone and social media activity from behind prison walls, he was back on social media, with a brand new account, with TWO cell phones, a live stream from NWCX, and a link to an unexpected Facebook Friend – a G4S Guard/Correctional Officer, who is a 3rd Party Contractor used to help staff prisons. We’ll cover more on that link in Part IV of our investigation where we have uncovered multiple guards are friends with multiple…
Part II of our Party in Prison series, we travel to another TDOC facility, located in Tiptonville. While we realize this is far outside our normal Nashville coverage, we can’t ignore the things we found. Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) houses over 2300 of the states medium-security inmates, under Warden Mike Parris. Our initial investigation began as a tip of a East Nashville inmate who was posting from within prison, from there we were able to link to not only other inmates at Riverbend Prison in Nashville, but MGCC and NWCX,…
After years of inmates in Tennessee’s prison systems using cell phones that are smuggled into the institutions to post on social media, contact people on the outside, and even other prisoners, the state has appointed a ‘Chief Interdiction Officer’ within the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC), and appointed Lee Dotson to the post. He began his new role on April 1, 2017, and in the weeks since, he has launched a PR campaign that would appear he’s successful, but is he? We’ve found that cell phones have only gotten cheaper…
