Former Loudon councilman charged

Former Loudon City Councilman Timothy Floyd Brewster was arrested Friday and charged in General Sessions Court with stalking and harassment.

Brewster, 64, was elected to Loudon City Council in 2018. He resigned citing health reasons in August 2021.

He is husband of Kelly Littleton-Brewster, a Loudon County commissioner who represents District 1 in Loudon and is chairwoman of the Loudon County Solid Waste Disposal Commission. He is charged with stalking and harassment of Pat Hunter, also a member of the LCSWDC.

Brewster did not respond to a request for comment.

According to the arrest report, Brewster is accused of harassing Hunter and stalking her at her home and county commission meetings.

Hunter contacted Loudon County Sheriff’s Office at 10:40 p.m. June 1 and reported “Brewster had called her and left a message indicating he was in the driveway of her residence and she needed to come outside and speak to him,” according to the report.

Deputies responded to the address but were unable to locate Brewster at the residence or in the area.

Hunter requested the incident be documented in a report and told deputies she would follow up with a detective with further evidence of additional confrontations.

She alleges the harassment began weeks earlier with repeated phone calls and hang-ups at her home by Brewster. She said Brewster called her 15 times in one night.

At a special called county commission meeting June 1, Hunter said Brewster was looking in the windows of the building during the meeting and making gestures. Brewster left the message on her voicemail saying he was in her driveway later that same evening.

Hunter said she contacted county officials and law enforcement in the following days to ask that they reach out to Brewster and tell him to stop bothering her.

Hunter said the harassment continued June 6 at the county commission meeting at the Loudon County Courthouse Annex. She said she was getting ready to enter the meeting when Brewster, who was driving a silver pickup truck slowly down the street in front of the annex, yelled obscenities at her.

She said she requested Loudon Police Department respond to the meeting. LPD escorted her part of the way to her home after she left the meeting.

“This continual contact with Mrs. Hunter has caused her to feel threatened and fearful of bodily harm,” according to the LCSO report.

Hunter said she believes Brewster is trying to intimidate her into changing her position on a controversial contract with Republic Services to manage Matlock Bend Landfill. She has criticized the contract during commission discussions and indicated she will vote against the extension when it comes before SWDC for final approval.

The charge of harassment and stalking are both misdemeanors. Brewster was booked June 10 into Loudon County Jail and released on $2,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in General Sessions Court on June 24.

According to Tennessee Code Annotated 39-17-308, “harassment” means conduct directed toward a victim that includes, but is not limited to, repeated or continuing not consenting contact that would cause a reasonable person to suffer emotional distress and actually causes the victim to suffer emotional distress.

“Stalking” is defined under TCA 39-17-315 as a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed or molested, and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed or molested.