CHEATHAM COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) -- Authorities took one of Cheatham County's most wanted individuals into custody at a Nashville home Wednesday afternoon.

The Cheatham County Sheriff's Office got a tip on Wednesday, May 21 that Chester Leroy Loudy, 45, was hiding out in a home near Maplewood High School in Nashville.

Deputies have been tracking the convicted felon for weeks, so with the help of the Metro Nashville Police Department, they moved in to apprehend him.

Body camera footage shows law enforcement making their way into the home and moving to a rear hallway where investigators said Loudy was taking a shower.

"You could hear the shower running, yeah. I guess he was just taking his time, getting his makeup on or whatever," Sgt. Ryan Hawkins with the Cheatham County Sheriff's Office told News 2.

According to authorities, Loudy was wanted on parole violations related to an eight-year prison sentence he served for drug charges. In addition, he allegedly drove an SUV that deputies chased across Cheatham County in April.

"Yeah, he ran. We don't like it when people run. They put a lot of people in danger when they do that, so we were after him pretty hot," Hawkins said.

Deputies ordered Loudy to surrender, but he refused to come out of the bathroom.

Hawkins: "I got about 30 people around this house, boss man!"

Loudy: "I'll die before I go!"

Hawkins: "Come on!"

Loudy: "How do you know I ain't got a weapon?"

Hawkins: "Open the door!"

Finally, after deputies promised to let him smoke, the wanted man emerged, angry but unarmed, and surrendered.

Body camera footage captured a conversation between law enforcement and Loudy as he was being loaded into a patrol car:

Loudy: "You guys should have let me live my life. I ain't doing [expletive] wrong to nobody. What have I done, besides not report to probation?"

Hawkins: "You ran from us, there's that."

Loudy: "What do you mean us?"

Hawkins: "Cheatham County."

Loudy: "Oh, so you guys are Cheatham? How can Cheatham come to Nashville?"

Hawkins: "That's how it works, boss man."

On his way to jail, Loudy reportedly told authorities that he saw News 2's story from April about 41-year-old Laura Jean Wallhead being arrested and Loudy being sought after last month's pursuit and multi-county search.

"He said he saw that BS on TV. I reminded him that he saw my face on that video and I told him I was going to catch him, so we did," Hawkins said.

Loudy is being held in the Cheatham County Jail, charged with evading arrest and driving on a revoked license. There's no word on how this affects his situation with the Tennessee Department of Correction.

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