News Herald Arrest Report

Inmate charged with contraband in jail

Initially transported to Loudon County Jail on a public intoxication charge, a Lenoir City woman is now facing an additional charge stemming from a dispute while in custody.

Tara Rochelle Cook, 24, Lenoir City, was initially arrested Sunday for public intoxication, and after getting booked at jail, Cook became engaged in a verbal altercation with multiple inmates, according to the arrest report. 

Loudon County Sheriff’s Office deputies removed Cook from Block B, and others in custody told police that Cook had been snorting pills on the block.

While conducting a search of Cook, police found one oblong white pill believed to be Seroquel and 1/2 of a round white pill believed to be a form of Suboxone, according to the arrest report. The pills were found in two small plastic bags in Cook’s bra.

Cook was charged with public intoxication and contraband in a penal institution and held on $16,000 bond.

Woman arrested for DUI, drugs

A Loudon woman was taken to Loudon County Jail during the weekend after getting pulled over for a traffic violation.

Noticing a silver Honda travel through an intersection without stopping, Lenoir City Police Officer Tyrel Lorenz conducted a traffic stop, and after running a check through dispatch, learned that the driver, Wanda Sue Chrisman, 57, Loudon, had an active warrant for her arrest related to a second driving under the influence offense.

Chrisman was taken into custody, and while performing a search, Lorenz found two white pills believed to be oxycodone and five white pills believed to be clonazepam.

Lorenz gave the woman a verbal warning for the traffic violation.

Chrisman was charged with driving under the influence and simple possession/casual exchange and held on $3,500 bond.

Sept. 3

• Bradford William Bingham, 40, Greenback, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,000 bond.

• Isaiah Jordan Christian, 18, Lenoir City, was charged with possession of stolen property and released on $1,000 bond. Responding to a call of a stolen bicycle at a restaurant, LCPD Officer Brandon Gentry spotted Christian walking north along U.S. Highway 321. A woman told police that she saw a man in the area with her son’s bicycle, which was reported missing Aug. 31. When she woman confronted the man, he dropped the bicycle and began walking away, according to Gentry’s report. Christian told police that he bought the bicycle for $20 from an unidentified man. The woman told police that she had a photo of the stolen bicycle with a matching serial number to the one in Christian’s possession.

• Christopher Tyler Denton, 28, Kodak, was charged with theft between $1,000-$59,999 and released without bond.

• Bernitta Justice Grizzle, 56, Loudon, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and released on $1,000 bond. Stopping a vehicle for failing to turn at a green light, LCSO Deputy Cody Fritts asked the driver, Grizzle, for consent to search the vehicle. While searching the vehicle, police found a small cut straw with residue between the driver and passenger seats, according to Fritt’s report. Police also found two syringes, two pill containers and a razor blade in Grizzle’s pocketbook, along with two hypodermic needles under the passenger seat floor mat.

Sept. 4

• Jimmy Lynn Arden, 50, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and released on $2,000 bond.

• Jerry Rocky Childress, 44, Madisonville, was charged with child support and held on $500 bond.

• Heather Michelle Clabo, 28, Dandridge, was charged with theft under $500 and released on $2,000 bond.

• Antonio Zavala Garcia, 40, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence, driving on a revoked/suspended license and violation of implied consent and held on $4,500 bond. Spotting a red vehicle driving through a gas station parking lot in Lenoir City, LCSO Cpl. Billy Hall saw the car suddenly jerk left, stop and then start toward the road. Stopping the vehicle and speaking with the driver, Garcia, Hall smelled alcohol coming from the car and noticed that Garcia had “glassy eyes,” according to the arrest report. Garcia told deputies that he had consumed five beers. The driver could not follow instructions to perform field sobriety tests, Hall wrote. A check through dispatch revealed that Garcia had a revoked license on two previous driving under the influence offenses from 2005 and 2008.

• Jesse Ray Huffine, 27, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $2,000 bond.

• Timothy Lynn Huffine, 29, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,000 bond.

• Daniel Allen McCraw, 35, Loudon, was charged with failure to appear and held on $10,000 bond.

• Matthew Brock Underwood, 23, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and driving on a revoked/suspended license and held on $3,000 bond.

• Eric Jason Zink, 45, Sarasota, Fla., was charged with driving under the influence and released on $2,500 bond.

Sept. 5

• Courtney Darlene Brown, 29, Philadelphia, was charged with driving under the influence and released without bond.

• Alexandra Shayne Dailey, 22, Lenoir City, was charged with vandalism and held on $4,000 bond. Dailey told police that her husband had taken her baby against her will, and when she tried to get the infant back, the man left the residence to go to another apartment, according to the arrest report. Dailey got a fire extinguisher and broke the windshield on the man’s vehicle, according to the arrest report. “She did this as a malicious act toward her husband,” LCPD Officer Jamie Whitt said.

• Philip Leahy Ericson, 32, Knoxville, was charged with theft over $500 and released on $2,000 bond. Responding to a call of a shoplifter at a retail store in Lenoir City, police spoke with loss prevention employees, who said Ericson had broken the security features on two laptops at the store, and the employees also saw Ericson take two buckets of fried chicken before leaving the store without paying for the items. Officers stopped Ericson outside the store, and the man was in possession of additional store items, according to police. Police reported that 13 items valued at $738.09 were taken from the store.

• Johnathan Blaine Feezell, 20, Loudon, was charged with failure to appear-municipal court and held without bond.

• Jacob Keith Steelman, 21, Knoxville, was charged with criminal littering and held without bond.

Sept. 6

• Kayla Marie McCraw, 18, Philadelphia, was charged with theft under $500 and released on $1,000 bond. Responding to a call of a shoplifter at a retail store, LCPD Officer Jason Arden spoke with a loss prevention employee, who said he saw McCraw take a store bag from her purse, place multiple items in the bag and leave the store without paying for the items, according to Arden’s report. The items were valued at $95.65.

• Robert Arlen Newcomb, 28, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and released without bond.

• Clarence Roger Seiber, 38, Oliver Springs, was charged with theft of property and held on $1,000 bond. Dispatched to a call of a phone theft in the 800 block of Commerce Street, Loudon Police Department officers saw Seiber and another man in the backyard searching for parts of a cellphone that were in the grass. The man told police that Seiber had thrown the phone in the yard. During the investigation, police learned that Seiber had taken the phone at a nearby convenience store about an hour earlier, according to the arrest report. “Seiber stated at first that he thought the phone was his but when he arrived home he figured out he’d taken a phone that belonged to someone else and when (the man) came to his door looking for him, he threw the phone out the back door of the trailer,” according to the arrest report. Seiber admitted to taking the phone and throwing it out the back door, according to police.

• Brian Eugene Sherrill, 23, Athens, was charged with violation of probation and held without bond.

• Schressa Carol Ward, 52, Maryville, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $2,000 bond.

• Whitney Lynn Williams, 26, Lenoir City, was charged with failure to appear and violation of probation and held without bond.

Sept. 7

• Michelle Poore Bauman, 33, Oak Ridge, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $5,000 bond.

• Dylan Kendall Hammons, 21, Loudon, was charged with failure to appear on violation of probation and held without bond.

• Kimberly Jean Hodge, 47, Philadelphia, was charged with failure to appear and held without bond.

• Isabel Cruz Lopez, 30, Loudon, was charged with domestic assault and held on $4,000 bond.

• Jason Richard Ouimet, 32, Knoxville, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and held without bond.

Sept. 8

• Johnny A. Kelly, 26, Loudon, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and held without bond.

Man jailed on forgery, theft charges
 
A Lenoir City man is facing multiple counts of forgery and theft stemming from an unauthorized use of checks.

On Aug. 23, a man told police that he withdrew funds from his Y-12 Federal Credit Union account and learned that the balance was “several thousand dollars” below the anticipated total, Loudon County Sheriff’s Office Inv. Sgt. Jason Smith wrote in a report. The man found numerous checks written out to Schawn Dal McElveen, 41, Lenoir City.

The man told police that McElveen lives on his property and was his stepson before his wife passed away, according to the arrest report. The man said McElveen was not authorized to cash the checks, and his name was not listed on the account.
 
“(The man’s) name was also written on the signature line but (the man) states it was not his signature nor did he authorize anyone to sign his name,” Smith wrote.
 
According to deputies, the man’s signature was forged on the checks, and images obtained from the bank show McElveen cashing the checks.
McElveen was charged with five counts of forgery and five counts of theft of property and held on $27,500 bond.
 
Domestic dispute leads to arrest
 
A 52-year-old man was taken to Loudon County Jail after a domestic altercation last week in Greenback.
 
Responding to a call of a dispute in the 6300 block of Highway 411 South, LCSO Deputy Craig Brewer spoke with a woman who said her boyfriend, Alan Howard Price, 52, Greenback, began throwing flower pots off the porch and stairs during an argument.
 
“He then threw his food at her while she was coming back into the residence,” Brewer wrote in the arrest report. “(I) could see the food all over the door and floor and porch where he threw it at her.”
 
While Brewer attempted to speak with Price, the man came to the porch “ranting, cursing and threatening” the woman, Brewer wrote, noting that Price became more aggressive when he told the man to place his hands behind his back.
 
Price refused to comply with police commands, Brewer wrote.
 
“When I grabbed his arm to affect an arrest on him he then shoved me back and took a posture to fight until I pulled the taser and advised him he was about to get (tazed),” Brewer wrote. “The whole time on scene he kept threatening (the woman) and all the way to the jail made comments he would get her.”
Price was charged with aggravated assault and released on $5,000 bond.
 
Sept. 8
 
• Cory Ray Cheatham, 27, Lenoir City, was charged with public intoxication and released on $1,000 bond. Responding to a call of a fight in the 400 block of West 2nd Avenue, police spoke with Cheatham, who was identified as the primary aggressor, according to the arrest report. He displayed signs of intoxication, according to police.
 
• Christopher W. Dawson, 42, Athens, was charged with theft of property and released on $10,000 bond.
 
• Corey Scott Ezell, 25, Clinton, was charged with two counts of failure to appear on a revoked/suspended license and released on $4,000 bond.
 
• Joshua Manuel Frase, 38, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and held without bond.
 
• Gabriel Patino Garcia, 32, Loudon, was charged with driving under the influence, driving without a license and violation of implied consent and held on $3,000 bond. An off-duty officer with the Lenoir City Police Department told dispatch that he was behind a possibly intoxicated driver traveling along Highway 11 near Loudon County Justice Center. LCSO Cpl. Billy Hall saw the vehicle partially cross over the fog line, and when he attempted to stop the driver, the vehicle continued crossing the line and went into the emergency lane, Hall wrote in the arrest report. “As the vehicle slowed, the driver kept reaching under the front passenger seat before coming to a complete stop,” Hall wrote. After stopping the vehicle, Hall spoke with the driver, Garcia, who had an “extremely strong odor” of alcohol. Hall spotted an open container of beer in the front seat, according to the arrest report. Garcia performed poorly on field sobriety tests. Garcia initially told police he had two beers but later admitted to consuming three drinks, according to Hall. Garcia did not have a license, and the man was read implied consent in Spanish but refused testing.
 
• Brian James Vargo, 38, Loudon, was charged with fugitive from justice out of Michigan and held without bond.
 
Sept. 9
 
• Stacey Brooke Buchanan, 32, Maryville, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $2,500 bond. Dispatched to a call of a wreck with injury at Highway 72 and Prospect Church Road, Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper James Capps learned that a car had gone up an embankment and came to a stop in the middle of Highway 72. While speaking with Buchanan, who was the driver, Capps noticed that her speech was slurred and “her actions were over exaggerated,” according to the arrest report. Buchanan told the trooper that she had taken Suboxone that morning and just before the wreck, as well as two Xanax pills after taking the Suboxone.
 
• Maria Del Carmen Galvan, 39, Lenoir City, was charged with driving without a license and released on $229.50 bond.
 
• Clinton Clouse Hensley, 32, Knoxville, was charged with theft over $500 and released on $7,500 bond.
 
• Ryan Kevin St. Pierre, 41, Loudon, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and released on $1,000 bond.
 
Sept. 10
 
• Larry Glenn Brown, 34, Maryville, was charged with violation of community corrections and held without bond.
 
• Daniel Gray Duggan, 40, Lenoir City, was charged with public intoxication and failure to appear-municipal court and held without bond.
 
• Kasey Marie Hayworth, 27, Loudon, was charged with criminal impersonation, escape, prevention or obstruction of service, failure to appear and criminal court capias and held on $5,000 bond.
 
• Bobbie Fay Helton, 23, Lenoir City, was charged with simple possession/casual exchange and held on $1,000 bond.
 
• James Brandon Johnson, 34, Loudon, was charged with two counts of simple possession/casual exchange and held without bond.
 
• James Daniel Johnson, 42, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and violation of probation and held on $1,000 bond.
 
• Kimberly Larue Panick, 37, Lenoir City, was charged with theft out of Anderson County and held without bond.
 
• Helen Marie Selvage, 69, Lenoir City, was charged with misuse of 911 emergency system and resisting arrest and held on $2,000 bond.
 
• Paul Kristopher Young, 49, Knoxville, was charged with driving under the influence, violation of implied consent and driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $10,000 bond.
 
Sept. 11
 
• Nicole Ann Gibson, 26, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and held on $2,000 bond.
 
• Steven Franklin Potter, 29, Loudon, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and held on $1,000 bond.

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