News Herald Arrest Report

Georgia man nabbed for drugs, firearm
 
A Georgia man is facing multiple charges related to drugs and the illegal possession of a firearm after being spotted swerving on the road and crossing the center line over the weekend on Interstate 75.

Spotting the driver of a silver Lexus traveling erratically down the interstate near mile marker 76, Loudon County Sheriff's Office Deputy Ron DeLand turned on his lights and followed the vehicle until it stopped in the fast lane of the highway, according to the arrest report.

After the driver, Nicholas Jacob Gann, 23, McDonough, Ga., pulled onto a safer part of the interstate, DeLane approached Gann and asked if he was OK, DeLand wrote, noting that the driver had trouble answering questions and appeared "very nervous."
 
Gann showed signs of intoxication and had a blue powder on his mouth, according to reports.
 
"I noticed a plastic bag between his legs," DeLand wrote. "I asked several times what was in the bag. Driver wouldn't answer. He kept reaching around in his seat."
 
During a search of the vehicle, deputies found a loaded pistol between the driver's seat and console and blue and orange pills in the plastic bag, DeLand wrote, noting that the blue pills matched the substance that was found on Gann's mouth.
 
Police also found a white container with numerous blue and orange pills and one pink pill. Gann told deputies he had taken "some of the pills" while en route to Rutledge that morning, according to the report.
 
The pills were identified as 20 mg dextroamphetamine, 10 mg clonzepam and 30 mg dextroamphetamine.
 
Gann was charged with manufacture/sell/delivery/resale of a Schedule IV substance, manufacture/sell/delivery/resale of a Schedule II substance, possession of a firearm during a dangerous felony, possession of a handgun while under the influence, driving under the influence and simple possession/casual exchange and held on $115,500 bond.
 
March 21
 
• Thomas Joseph Davenport, 32, Chattanooga, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and released on $369 bond.
 
• Nathan Hunter McKnight, 26, Niota, was charged with violation of probation and held on $4,000 bond.
 
• Emilee Marie Payne, 21, Lenoir City, was charged with theft of property and released on $1,000 bond. Dispatched to a call of a possible female shoplifter at a retail store in Lenoir City, police spoke with a loss prevention employee, who said Payne was seen taking health and beauty items and placing them in her purse, and she also had a vacuum cleaner under her shopping cart, according to the arrest report. Payne then left the store without paying for the merchandise, according to police. The items were valued at $156.48.
 
• David Franklin Thomas, 23, Philadelphia, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and held on $2,000 bond.
 
March 22
 
• Carlie Michelle Benton, 24, Oak Ridge, was charged with theft under $500 and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Billy Jake Mason, 26, Coker Creek, was charged with aggravated assault and held on $10,000 bond.
 
• Angela Dawn Murray, 40, Knoxville, was charged with theft over $500 and criminal trespass and released on $12,000 bond. Loss prevention personnel at a retail store in Lenoir City reported that Murray was seen placing various items into a shopping cart and leaving through the grocery doors without purchasing the merchandise, according to the arrest report. When spotted, Murray ran out of the store and was subsequently detained by a LCSO deputy, according to the report. The merchandise was valued at $847.71. Murray signed a no-trespassing restriction in September 2014.
 
March 23
 
• Eric Duane Borchardt, 26, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Kristen Lee Brashears, 36, Loudon, was charged with theft over $500 and released on $3,000 bond.
 
• Sarah Dorine Coker, 57, Philadelphia, was charged with theft under $500 and released on $1,000 bond. Responding to a call of a shoplifter at a retail store in Lenoir City, police spoke with an employee, who said Coker was seen concealing merchandise in her pants and purse, and she left the store without paying for the items, according to the arrest report. The merchandise was valued at $76.76. Coker also had two active warrants out of Monroe County.
 
• Dusti Shawn Cothran, 43, Philadelphia, was charged with theft between $10,000-$60,000 and released on $15,000 bond.
 
• Abby Renee Duggan, 36, Lenoir City, was charged with forgery and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• Latashia Michelle Long, 29, Madisonville, was charged with assault and held without bond.
 
• Jamie Ray Tolle, 30, Lenoir City, was charged with contempt of court and failure to appear-general sessions and held on $1,300 bond.
 
• Tobias Tuck, 38, Lenoir City, was charged with contempt of court and released on $500 bond.
 
March 24
 
• Brandon Thomas Deaton, 25, Lenoir City, was charged with vandalism, burglary and theft over $1,000 and released on $63,000 bond. Deaton was arrested in connection with a burglary at a church in Lenoir City. Deaton was charged with stealing about $6,186 in equipment from the church's youth building and vandalizing the property, according to the police report.
 
• Baldemar Guzman Gallardo, 25, Philadelphia, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• Bobby Lee Littleton, 36, homeless, was charged with theft of property, forgery and attachment and held on $7,500 bond.
 
• Gary Lee Orgeon Jr., 36, Lenoir City, was charged with theft under $500 and held on $2,000 bond. Responding to a domestic disturbance in the 700 block of Shipley Lane, LCSO Deputy Craig Brewer met Orgeon Jr., who was coming out of the home with three packed bags, according to the arrest report. During a pat down, police found a "small folding knife" that belonged to Orgeon's father, Brewer wrote. Police also located five Oxycodone pills, multiple syringes with needles, a .22-caliber revolver wrapped in a pair of socks and five boxes of ammunition, all of which belonged to the man's father, Brewer wrote. The items were valued at $500.
 
• Dalton Joe Tinch, 19, Rockwood, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and held without bond.
 
• Alisia Brooke Torres, 21, Loudon, was charged with failure to appear and held on $5,000 bond.
 
• Michael Jefferson Vickers, 38, Kingston, was charged with violation of sex offender registry and released on $15,000 bond. Responding to a call of a registered sex offender on a piece of property with children nearby in the 8500 block of Hickory Creek Road, LCSO Deputy Craig Brewer found Vickers working at a community center at the location, according to the arrest report. "On checking, he was not there for religious service but there was a festival going on," Brewer wrote, noting that "multiple children" were present in the building and area in which Vickers was working.
 
March 25
 
• Jimmy Lynn Arden, 27, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• Russell Allen Conner, 36, Knoxville, was charged with driving on a suspended license, driving under the influence and criminal impersonation and held on $8,000 bond. Stopping a vehicle for following too closely to another car along Interstate 75, Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Paul Clendenen ran a check through dispatch and found the driver, Conner, had a tag that was reportedly stolen out of Knox County, according to the arrest report. Conner was asked to step out of the car, and he performed poorly on field sobriety tests, initially telling the trooper that he had not taken any prescription medicine, Clendenen wrote. Later during the stop, Conner said that he was on Celexa and had taken gabapentin for back pain, according to the report. Conner initially gave a Social Security number belonging to a person with a different name and told Clendenen that his name was Jason Gyuinn. "It was not until he was secured in the back of my cruiser that he gave me his true information," Clendenen wrote. "He claimed he was trying to avoid warrants he knew he had out of Knoxville."
 
• Robert Adam Dunlap, 26, Maryville, was charged with violation of parole out of Blount County and held without bond.
 
• Fredrick David Hall, 43, Lenoir City, was charged with domestic assault-felony and held on $10,000 bond. Dispatched to a call of a domestic disturbance in the 2500 block of West Lee Highway, LCSO Deputy J.C. Schultz spoke with a woman, who said Hall choked and hit her the previous night and threatened to kill her, according to the arrest report. "This deputy did observe and photographed bruising on (the woman's) neck that is consistent with her being strangled and bruising on her face, back, shoulders and arms consistent with an assault," Schultz wrote.
 
• Arthur Douglas Key, 39, Lenoir City, was charged with failure to appear and held without bond.
 
• Juan Medina-Munoz, 39, Lenoir City, was charged with driving without a driver's license and released without bond.
 
• Danny W. Mills, 49, Lenoir City, was charged with contempt of court and held on $1,000 bond.
 
March 26
 
• Bradley Lucas Brooks, 33, Lenoir City, was charged with failure to appear out of Knox County and released without bond.
 
• Michael Eugene Chastain, 42, Lenoir City, was charged with criminal trespass and held without bond. Responding to a call of a disturbance in the 3400 block of Hines Valley Road, LCSO Deputy J.C. Schultz arrived to find two women yelling at Chastain, who was on the lawn of the property, according to the arrest report. Schultz wrote in the report that Chastain had previously been told by police and the complainant not to come to the residence.
 
• Brian Hale Davis, 47, Vonore, was charged with violation of order protection and released without bond.
 
• Katherine Leann Lambert, 31, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released without bond.
 
March 27
 
• Tony Lynn Bivins, 45, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• Scott Michael Burgin, 30, Knoxville, was charged with public intoxication and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Brittney Alaine Craig, 26, Philadelphia, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• Brett Allen Monger, 31, Sevierville, was charged with attachment-child support and held on $150 bond.
 
• Enrique Patino-Corona, 34, Loudon, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $1,500 bond.
 
• Kevin Mark Pennington, 36, Philadelphia, was charged with simple possession/casual exchange and possession of drug paraphernalia and held on $4,000 bond. Spotting a red Chevrolet S-10 traveling on Highway 11 with a broken tail light, LCSO Deputy Jamie Ketner stopped the truck and spoke with the driver, Pennington, and a passenger, Courtney Ireland, who appeared "nervous," according to the arrest report. During a search of the vehicle, deputies found a bag containing a "small amount" of crystals that tested positive for methamphetamine, Ketner wrote. Pennington and Ireland said the crystals did not belong to them. "Once we arrived at the jail, Ms. Ireland had a syringe and the bottom of (an) aluminum can inside her vagina," Ketner wrote. Pennington received a warning for the tail light.
 
• Courtney Elizabeth Ireland, 35, Philadelphia, was charged with simple possession/casual exchange and possession of drug paraphernalia and held on $4,000 bond.
 
• Samantha Mae Sellers, 28, Loudon, was charged with driving on a revoked license and cite-in and held on $1,000 bond.
 
• Kevin Lee Stallcup, 33, Madisonville, was charged with two counts of possession of a Schedule II substance and possession of drug paraphernalia and held on $6,000 bond. Noticing a man cutting his hair with a pair of scissors outside his vehicle at Clear Creek boat ramp, LCSO Deputy Robbie Lane spoke with Stallcup, who told deputies that he was "just cutting his hair and was doing nothing wrong," according to the arrest report. "I asked Mr. Stallcup if he had anything inside the vehicle, at which time Mr. Stallcup starting trying to change the subject," Lane wrote in the report. Stallcup said that he had a loaded syringe in the center console of the vehicle, and Lane found "several more" syringes and two metal spoons with drug residue in the vehicle, according to the report. Deputies also found a bottle containing two round pills believed to be 30 mg Oxycodone and three orange pills believed to be 60 mg morphine, according to the report. Lane also located a black backpack with a glass pipe, other syringes and a set of digital scales with white powder residue inside the vehicle.
 
• Christina M. Weaver, 27, Maryville, was charged with two counts of simple possession/casual exchange and held on $4,000 bond. Responding to a call of a possible heroin overdose in the 2800 block of Jackson Ferry Road, police found Weaver walking down Jackson Ferry with a purse, according to the arrest report. During a search of Weaver's purse, police found a syringe, which Weaver said contained heroin, and 2 1/2 pills believed to be Suboxone. Weaver told police that she did not have a prescription for the medication, according to the report. A search of a truck on the scene revealed an additional syringe containing a substance that tested positive for heroin. Weaver told police the syringe belonged to her.
 
March 28
 
• Emanaual Letwan Cash, 31, Detroit, was charged with driving under the influence and driving on a suspended license and held on $8,000 bond.
 
• Jessica Nicole Sanchez, 28, Sweetwater, was charged with theft of property and held without bond.
 
• Casey Alexander Thompson, 34, Caryville, was charged with driving under the influence and held without bond.

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