Local crime victims say they're being ripped off twice, once by the crooks who steal their cars and a second time by the city of Nashville. Owners of cars stolen and used in crimes in Nashville are forced to pay a fee to get their car back from the Metro Police impound lot. Cars stolen and used in crimes are housed there to either give the victim time to recover their car or it’s held as evidence for some criminal cases. Owners have about three days to pick it up the car before daily storage fees begin to add up. The starting cost for most vehicles to be claimed is $200. Victims say it’s not fair to pay for a crime someone committed against them and Councilman Freddie O’Connell agrees. He says the city shouldn’t profit off of someone being a victim. “It’s the weirdest feeling to pay the city because I didn’t do anything. I’m literally sitting here minding my business and now all of a sudden, I have to pay a couple hundred dollars just to get my vehicle back,” said O’Conn...

Living on the streets brings extra interactions with law enforcement, but Tennessee’s capital is taking steps to reimagine justice. Paul Arndt sells magazines in a camp chair in his typical spot. He was arrested for obstruction of passageway in the following weeks. Paul Arndt knows all about people experiencing homelessness having encounters with the police. He used to live in the recently closed encampment under the Jefferson Street Bridge, a place where many nonprofits frequent, giving aid to the homeless living there.  Every so often, police will force these encampments to clear out, citing trespassing laws. But his first real issue with getting a citation happened when he was selling The Contributor, the biweekly street newspaper published in Nashville, in front of the popular downtown tourist spot Puckett’s Grocery & Restaurant. Arndt is 65 years old and legally blind. Unable to stand for long periods of time, he had brought a camp chair to sit on while he...

A Boston resident is now the fifth man to confirm to that he was drugged in downtown Nashville this year. During NFL draft, men say they were drugged in downtown bar. John Walsh Jr. filed a police report claiming on Nov. 19 he, his son and nephew were having drinks at The Diner on Third Avenue South. After his son and nephew decided to go to a hookah bar, Walsh said he struck up a conversation with an unknown woman and had his third drink of the night. The next morning, he awoke in the Metro jail. “The most devastating thing that's happened in my life,” Walsh said. Walsh said he remembers nothing between that last drink at The Diner and waking up in the jail that morning. “Around 1:00 in the morning, I have no memory from there,” Walsh said. He would later learn that he was found asleep in a chair in a hotel miles away from where he was staying. When police arrived, they described him as smelling of alcohol and could not form coherent sentences and took him to ...

Men are being "roofied" in  Downtown Nashville A police report narrative shows the first indication of what has long been rumored: that men claim they were roofied during the NFL draft in April. Downtown Nashville Residents Association also spoke with both men who confirm what is detailed in the report, but declined to appear on camera. According to the report, after the draft, the two men ended Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Rooftop Bar. The first victim said he has several alcohol drinks but no more than usual and got separated from his friend. The second victim said the last thing he remembered was being in the bar, and then woke up in an empty car far from his home. The first victim told police that his last memory was getting into a ride share with a strange woman before blacking out. When he awoke, he told police that he was naked in his home. He later found $7,800 had been stolen from his home along with a Gucci watch and a ring. According to the report,...

A Nashville resident living near a construction site for a new condo complex is concerned there is a lack of Metro codes limiting construction noise at night. Steve Brady has lived at 1815 Division St. for two years because of its convenient location he said. But around 2 a.m. this morning he was awaken to the noise of crews pouring cement next door at the construction site. “It sounds like a cannon shots, reverberates, can’t sleep, it’s impossible. Then the worse is the overnight concrete pours,” the Chicago native said. Currently there's nothing in the Metro Code of Laws that makes construction noise illegal or a violation late at night. Councilman Freddie O'Connell said it can happen any time of day or night except Sundays but he's working to amend and simplify a noise ordinance. “We as council members, the mayor’s office those departments can go out and speak to Nashvillians all over the city to say if this is what's happening here's exactly who you...

Residents Complain About Downtown Nashville Construction Noise It's a question of developers versus residents that the city may soon revisit. With Nashville's booming urban core, the issue of construction noise comes up all over town. "You've got cement trucks lined up as far as the eye can see," said Encore resident Michael Williams in a video he took at 3 a.m. Monday. It showed several, loud trucks parked outside his condo while working on the new Bridgestone building next door. "You're woken up every 30 minutes all night long, and this happens at least once every week," Williams told NewsChannel 5. "It sounds like 5,000 vacuum cleaners running at the same time interspersed with loud booms and grinding sounds." The building is being developed by Highwoods Properties, which did not immediately return our calls. But it's hardly an isolated incident downtown, and council member Freddie O'Connell has been making it o...

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