(José Niño, Headline USA) Dalton Eatherly, the online personality who goes by “Chud the Builder,” has walked out of the Montgomery County Jail after roughly two months in custody, WSMV4 reported Monday morning. Eatherly achieved online infamy earlier this year for saying the “n-word” to black people while live-streaming—antics that have sparked debates about free speech and civility.
An employee at the jail verified the release over the phone with WSMV4. Officials there refused to say what sum Eatherly put up to make bond, while a representative of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office told WSMV4 to take its questions to the jail instead.
Per WSMV4, Eatherly drew his first arrest in early May in Davidson County, where officers booked him on theft, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Employees at a Nashville restaurant reportedly removed him from the property after he declined to cover a $400 check. Davidson County records show those counts heading to a grand jury, with a judge last taking up the file on Thursday.
Barely a week passed before authorities filed a much more serious accusation. Investigators charged him with attempted murder tied to a shooting that allegedly left a disabled veteran wounded on the grounds outside the Montgomery County courthouse, according to a WSMV4 report. That matter also went to a grand jury for review.
Streamer ChudTheBuilder has been released from jail after posting a $1 million bond
10 bail bond services reportedly covered $100,000 each pic.twitter.com/XwB1MLKZfB
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A month afterward, the court held his bond in the Clarksville shooting at $1 million and imposed a curfew on him. As WSMV4 reported, the judge tacked on extra requirements that stood to complicate any attempt at release.
Roughly two weeks after that, Davidson County pulled his bond in the Nashville case. Whether the streamer must now report to jail in Davidson County remained unresolved as of Monday morning.
The Office of the District Attorney General in Nashville told WSMV4 that Eatherly satisfied his bond obligation there as well.
“Last Friday, our Assistant District Attorney tells me the Judge (despite our objection) granted a Bond to Dalton Eatherly for 15,000 dollars,” Director of Communications Steve Hayslip wrote in an email to WSMV4. “He immediately made that bond, just as he did his million dollar bond in Montgomery County.”
Should Eatherly “reoffend while awaiting trial,” Hayslip said, prosecutors will “immediately file a Motion to Revoke his bond.”
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