Eleven-time 2023 Billboard Music Award-winning country music performer Morgan Wallen was arrested late Sunday at Chief’s, the six-story Nashville honky-tonk recently opened by his business partner and longtime confidant Eric Church.
Wallen has been charged with three counts of reckless endangerment and one count of disorderly conduct.
In a police report, the 30-year-old singer was accused of throwing a chair from the establishment’s rooftop down to the street below while the bar just before 11 p.m. Metro Nashville police officers were standing in front of the bar and saw the chair hit the ground just feet from where they were standing, the report said
Officers who viewed security footage saw Wallen “lunging and throwing an object over the roof,” the report said.
Witnesses said Wallen laughed afterward.
In a statement issued to the Tennessean by Wallen’s representatives, Wallen’s lawyer, Worrick Robinson of Worrick Robinson Law, noted, “At 10:53 p.m. CT Sunday evening, Morgan Wallen was arrested in downtown Nashville for reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct. He is cooperating fully with authorities.”
Wallen was released around 3:30 a.m. Monday on $15,250 bond. He is due in court on May 3, a date that coincides with one of three planned concert dates at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium. The singer is scheduled to perform there May 2-4
No statement has been issued yet about the April 20, 2024, make-up date for his canceled 2023 appearance at Oxford, Mississippi’s Vaught-Hemingway Stadium or if his headlining appearance at the Stagecoach Festival on April 28 will be canceled in light of his recent arrest.
Last year, Wallen said he needed vocal rest on April 24, 2023 and canceled that show. It was only 11 dates into his seven-month global tour. He refunded the cost of the tickets.
“I am so sorry, I promise you guys I tried everything I could,” he said at the time.
Morgan Wallen’s history with Lower Broadway
Wallen has a history of run-ins with the law on Lower Broadway.
On May 24, 2020, Wallen was arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct outside of Kid Rock’s honky-tonk in downtown Nashville.
In the arrest warrant, the Metro Nashville Police Department said Wallen got kicked out of Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse at about 11 p.m. for “kicking glass items.” On the street, police said he verbally fought with passersby while officers watched.
“Officers gave (Wallen) several opportunities to walk away with his friends, but he refused to walk away,” Metro said at the time, noting that he was “a danger to himself and the public.”
