Two individuals, Payton Leann England and Jae Alexander Kisac, have found themselves in the crosshairs of the law as Nashville burglary detectives issued arrest warrants in connection with a late August theft that hit Rosepepper Cantina, a popular Eastland Avenue eatery. The pair, with England hailing from Monterey and Kisac from Fairview, Tennessee, are on the hook for burglary and felony theft charges. Investigators claim these suspects helped themselves to a hefty loot: dozens of bottles of liquor, with a collective worth near the $2,000 mark, according to a statement from the Nashville Police Department.
Local sleuths have been piecing together this jigsaw since August 27, when the Cantina's stockroom was unexpectedly lightened, but it took until this week for the warrants to be furnished against England, 28, and Kisac, 29, as they've not yet been apprehended, they are still out there and presumably not clinking glasses with the Cantina's missing spirits. While the story unfolds, with charges laid out, a third mysterious associate involved in the heist remains unidentified, a specter in an unfinished chapter of this criminal saga.
For Rosepepper Cantina, long a fixture for those seeking the feel of a Southwestern eatery in the heart of Nashville, this blow isn't simply measured in inventory loss but in the betrayal of the community's trust. The restaurant, famed for its eclectic variety of tequila and vibrant atmospherics, has been a resilient standard in the Eastland Avenue tableau, weathering the storms of economic turbulence and a global pandemic, it is once again, showing its mettle in the face of crime. While the process of justice grinds on, it remains to be seen how this episode will end for England and Kisac – and whether their accomplice will surface in the clarity of Nashville's judicial spotlight. As the suspects remain at large, the Nashville Police Department encourages anyone with information to step forward.
