NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Country music artist and Murfreesboro native Chris Young was arrested at a Nashville bar Monday evening after he allegedly assaulted a Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) agent.
According to court documents, Young, 38, was at a bar on Demonbreun Street around 8:30 p.m. when TABC agents walked in to complete a compliance check. Young reportedly held his ID over his head and an TABC agent checked it with the agency’s ID app.
The agent gave Young back his ID and returned to the other agents to continue checking the staff’s ABC license cards.
Young began questioning the agents, who reportedly answered his questions, and then started video recording them, according to an affidavit. The agents left that bar and walked down Demonbreun to another one to serve more compliance checks.
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Once TABC agents checked that staff’s cards, they began to walk toward the door when Young “put his hands out to stop me from leaving the bar and struck me on the shoulder,” according to the TABC agent.