NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Police arrested a process server, who not only broke into the wrong home, but was also under the influence at the time.
Metro Police arrested 31-year-old John Mastin after he claimed he went into the wrong home to serve a document. It happened last week on Mecca Drive.
According to police, Mastin knocked on the front and back door of the victim's home and she did not answer.
He then lifted up the garage door and went into the home. That was when the victim's granddaughter showed up.
"I seen [sic] him come out of the office and slam the door. You could even hear how hard he slammed the door, the office door, and then he went into the garage" said Crystan Strong-Taylor, who first saw Mastin's vehicle in the middle of the road.
She said it had a broken window.
Strong-Taylor and her husband confronted Mastin by the garage and held him there until police arrived.
"He was completely intoxicated. They found drugs in his pocket, suboxone strips, xanax, marijuana," said Strong-Taylor.
Police said Mastin was unsteady on his feet, could not put a sentence together and was slurring his speech. He admitted to taking pills in the morning and was placed in custody for unlawfully entering the home.
During a search, officers found a pill bottle with xanax and gabapentin, they also found a plastic baggie with marijuana and a strip of Suboxone.
