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Fight over nightclub settled by consent

Monday, May 5, 2008
Dyersburg State Gazette
The partnership operating Club 51 will dissolve by June 28, but the nightclub itself is expected to remain open.

Tasha Roberson, 420 Fairbanks, intends to become the club's sole proprietor.

Roberson sued her partners, Ebonie Strayhorn, 2125 Joshua Loop, and Brenda Jackson of Peachtree Apartments, for extortion, failure to pay their share of the rent and turning off the utilities. Roberson claimed that her partners threatened to pull the club's beer permit and city business license and to turn the utilities off a second time if she didn't pay them $20,000 by March 15. Roberson filed the lawsuit instead.

The chancery court lawsuit was settled Monday, April 28, with a consent order.

The order requires Strayhorn and Jackson to leave the beer permit and business license in place until the end of June. That will give Roberson time to obtain a permit and a license in her name.

As soon as Roberson obtains the documents, the partnership will be dissolved and all of the partnership's property will belong to her. Roberson will pay $1,527 in sales tax, an outstanding $1,764 gas bill, a $1,060 phone bill and a $65 security alarm service bill within 60 days.

© Copyright 2008 Dyersburg State Gazette

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-- Posted by My2Centz on Mon, May 5, 2008, at 11:13 PM

To remain shut down would be a good thing.

-- Posted by tnclerk36 on Tue, May 6, 2008, at 8:06 AM

They need to close down the club for good and how does Tasha Robinson have that type of money to do anything. She just have her name on their for security reasons, she don't run the club. So how is she paying these types of bills. Could it be drug money being used undercover by the real ones running the club but under somebody eles's name. Eboni and Brenda was the same way their names was just used for beer license and things like that because her son Chris Bonds is a felony and a drug dealer and needed to put it in somebody else's name so They all got what they deserve. Brenda I hope you disability don't get cut off for this mishap.

-- Posted by vanity5 on Tue, May 6, 2008, at 8:25 AM

Who ran the club?

-- Posted by charleyraww on Tue, May 6, 2008, at 9:43 AM

"Disability cut off?" Are you talking about Social Security Disability Benefits? Anyone able to work full-time is not supposed to draw that check. If they are disabled they can get it only if their income is unearned income such as collecting rent on property or if their income/hours worked are so low it is not considered to be substantial gainful employment.

-- Posted by gb on Tue, May 6, 2008, at 9:50 AM

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