MURFREESBORO – A 21-year-old man was arrested after he told police he was Denzel Washington after marijuana was found at an apartment he was at late Monday night.
Police were responding to a noise complaint to Colony House Apartments on Huntington Drive when they found five people in an apartment that had a strong odor of marijuana inside, according to a Murfreesboro Police Department arrest report.
When an officer tried to speak with all of the people inside the apartment, he said he heard several people moving above him and saw a paper target with holes in it, the report said.
Additional officers were called to the scene and performed a sweep of the apartment. They found several bags of marijuana outside an open bedroom window with a missing screen, the report said.
Officers identified all people in the apartment, except for Justin Lee Seay, 21, of Memphis who told police he was Washington, the Academy Award-winning actor.
Police later identified Seay and arrested him on charges of felony drug possession, criminal impersonation and violation of probation. He was booked into Rutherford County jail on early Tuesday morning. His bond was set at $9,500.
The report said charges would be pursued against the other four people in the apartment on Monday night.
