Man In Underwear Breaks Into Home Using Flower Pot: Police

NASHVILLE, TN -- A Nashville man told police a strange and winding tale of hostage-taking and forced drug use after he was arrested for allegedly using a flower pot to break into his neighbor's home while wearing only his underwear, according to an arrest report.

Residents of a home on Chateau Valley Drive called police just before 4:30 Friday afternoon to report a break-in. The homeowner told police that his neighbor, 28-year-old Wayne Moyher, had used a flower pot and his hands to break through his back door, according to the police report.

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The officers found Moyher, who "only had his underwear on," "covered in sweat." Moyher reportedly told the officer that multiple men were in his home, holding him and his girlfriend hostage at gunpoint, forcing him to do drugs, and that he'd escaped and broken into his neighbors' to hide. Moyher then changed his story, police say, and instead said that his girlfriend told him that someone was in the house, attempting to take them hostage.

According to the affidavit, when the officer spoke to the girlfriend, she said that, as she watching television, Moyher suddenly jumped through the front window of their home and that no one else was inside the house except for the two of them.

The woman told police that she'd found a stash of heroin, methamphetamine, suboxone and melatonin she believed belonged to Moyher and that she flushed the drugs down the toilet.

Moyher was taken to Skyline Medical Center for treatment of a cut on his hand. He was then booked on charges of vandalism and aggravated criminal trespassing.

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