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MUSIC PEOPLE
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MAY 2024 Volume 55 Number 5 Issue 651
Editor Duncan Warwick
Contributors David Allan , Janet Aspley , Donnie Ayers , Craig Baguley , Jonny Brick , Tony Byworth , Larry Delaney , Don Cusic , Julie Flaskett , Michael Hingston , Stan Hitchcock , Tony Ives , Sianna King , Spencer Leigh , John Lomax III , Bryce Martin , Adrian Peel , Paul Riley , Alex Rossi , Chris Smith , Tom Travis , Walt Trott , Jack Watkins New release consultant : Steve Tidbury
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CHIEF ’ S CHAIR CHUCKER
M organ Wallen is in trouble again .
This time , whilst between dates on his One Night At A Time Tour , the singer was arrested on three felony charges on April 7 in downtown Nashville following an incident at Eric Church ’ s new bar and honky tonk , Chief ’ s . Wallen was previously arrested in May 2020 on charges of disorderly conduct in Kid Rock ’ s bar in the same area which prosecutors later dropped .
Since his latest arrest Wallen has been charged with three felonies of reckless endangerment , as well as a misdemeanour count of disorderly conduct after he allegedly threw a chair off the roof of Eric Church ’ s new bar six-storey venue on Nashville ’ s Broadway . Two Metro Nashville police officers were standing just feet away from the falling chair when it landed in front of Chief ’ s .
According to People Magazine , witnesses saw him pick up the chair , throw it over the edge and laugh , with a security guard suggesting that he threw the chair because he thought it would be funny .
A video of a chair being thrown by an unidentifiable person surfaced on TMZ and when police asked Chief ’ s staff who was responsible they pointed to Wallen who was taken away in handcuffs . Wallen was released a few hours later having posted a bond of $ 15,250 . A court date is set for May 3 .
Wallen ’ s representatives say he is fully cooperating with authorities , but the charges are serious and if convicted to the full extent of the law could come with a lengthy prison sentence . Reckless endangerment is classed as conduct that places or may place another person in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury , and in this instance , the chair could be considered a “ weapon ” which would qualify this as a “ Class E felony ” according to Tennessee State law .
Following the incident , speculation was rife that his behaviour might be connected to his former girlfriend KT Smith , and with whom Wallen shares a 3 1 / 2-year-old son ,
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