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Adrian Horton

Country singer Morgan Wallen arrested for throwing a chair off rooftop bar

A man standing against an orange background, smiles for the camera
The chair landed about 3ft from two metro Nashville police department officers standing on the street below. Photograph: Sanford Myers/AP

Country singer Morgan Wallen was jailed on Sunday night on felony charges that he threw a chair off the sixth-story roof of a popular bar in Nashville.

Billboard confirmed the arrest for reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct via a statement from the singer’s attorney on Monday. The record-breaking country musician was “fully cooperating with authorities”, and had been released from jail pending the resolution of the case, said Wallen’s attorney, Worrick Robinson.

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