Country music star Morgan Wallen was arrested and charged with three counts of reckless endangerment Sunday night time after he allegedly threw a chair from a rooftop bar in downtown Nashville.
Metro Nashville Police responded to the incident Sunday night round 11 p.m. native time when two officers standing in entrance of Chief’s Bar noticed a chair fall from above and hit the bottom about three ft from the place they have been standing.
A police affidavit, obtained by USA Today, stated that workers on the bar instructed officers Wallen was chargeable for throwing the chair. When police reviewed video footage of the incident, it confirmed him “lunging and throwing an object off the roof.”
He reportedly laughed after the incident, the affidavit claimed.
Chief’s Bar is a six-storey constructing owned by nation music singer Eric Church, in accordance with NBC News.
Wallen was arrested and charged a short time later. He additionally faces one rely of disorderly conduct. His bail was set at US$15,250 (about C$20,700) and he was bailed out within the early hours on Monday.
His lawyer, Worrick Robinson, launched a press release saying that his shopper is “cooperating fully with authorities.”
According to the Davidson County Criminal Court web site, Wallen’s subsequent courtroom date is May 3. He is already anticipated to be in Nashville on that date, enjoying reveals at Nissan Stadium as a part of his present tour.
This isn’t Wallen’s first brush with the legislation in Nashville. In 2020, he was arrested at Kid Rock’s bar after an incident and charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct.
Later that yr, he was additionally dropped because the musical visitor for Saturday Night Live after he was seen in TikTok movies partying with no masks and kissing ladies through the COVID-19 pandemic.
And in February 2021, he was briefly suspended from his report label and shunned by the nation music neighborhood after he was caught on video apparently drunk and shouting expletives — together with the N-word — to his mates.
“I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back,” he stated in a press release on the time. “There are no excuses to use this type of language, ever. I want to sincerely apologize for using the word. I promise to do better.”
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