Tag: money laundering

Richard Davis indicted on charges of tax fraud, money laundering, and theft over $250K

Jason Steen

58-year-old Richard Davis is free on a $25,000 bond after being booked on a Grand Jury Indictment this week in Nashville. The newly unsealed indictment consists of eight charges. Davis, who ran Music City Pipeworks, is alleged to have evaded paying taxes to the state, despite collecting the funds from customers during sales. He ran the Pipeworks under different LLCs, including MCPW Clarksville, MCPW Cool Springs, MCPW The Crossing, MCPW Smyrna, MCPW Melrose, and MCPW Hendersonville – each earning a separate count of tax fraud in the indictment.

Erica Fenton Indicted on 217 Counts of Money Laundering – Details on How Drug Money Funded Cloud IX Hookah Bar

Jason Steen

Erica Marie Fenton has been taken into custody by the Davidson County Sheriff’s Department, as the grand jury has indicted her on 217 felony counts of money laundering, which completely funded Cloud IX Hookah Bar. From December 2015 through September 2017, Erica Marie Fenton would receive cash from Sylvester Mosley that he had received from the sale of drugs. This cash was deposited in numerous bank accounts of Erica Marie Fenton and used to finance and open Cloud IX Hookah Bar in Nashville. These fund came from the movement of…

Michael Tran Uses East Nashville AirBNB to receive 6 Pounds of Marijuana [ARREST]

Jason Steen

This past Thursday, January 4th, MNPD arrested Michael Tran (San Diego, CA address) for receiving 6 pounds of high grade marijuana at an East Nashville AirBNB he was renting. Detectives with the MNPD Major Case Task Force were working in conjunction with Detectives with the Franklin Police Department on an ongoing investigation involving the Defendant. On January 3 the Defendant traveled into East Nashville, from San Diego California. Michael Tran went to the AirBNB he had rented at 1007B N. 14th St in East Nashville. The next day, on January…