News Herald Arrest Report

Knoxville woman arrested for drugs, public intoxication
 
Dispatched to the 300 block of Matlock Alley for a suspicious woman wearing a black bathing suit and stumbling around, Loudon County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Brian Smith found Kayla Ann Murrell, 24, Knoxville.

Murrell told Smith her name was Kayla Jones with a birth date of Oct. 8, 1990, but dispatch could find no record of that name.

Murrell said she had no identification and did not know her Social Security number. Checking the house for signs of an attempted burglary, Smith found a black purse in the back yard with Murrell’s identification.
 
“Ms. Murrell was very unsteady while walking, standing, seemed to be very hyper, unable to stop moving and all are signs of being under the influence of a narcotic stimulant,” Smith wrote in his report. After placing Murrell into custody, Smith said he found a black and chrome pipe in her purse, which is commonly used for smoking marijuana.
 
Murrell was charged with criminal impersonation, public intoxication and possession of drug paraphernalia and held on $5,000 bond.
 
June 15
  • Stephanie Marie Armstrong, 29, Lenoir City, was charged with failed to appear-general sessions and released on $3,000 bond.
     
  • Jeffrey Leroy Einkorn, 31, Lenoir City, was charged with domestic assault and released on $2,000 bond. Observing a green Ford Expedition with its hazard lights on alongside Highway 72 near a Lenoir City subdivision, LCSO Deputy Brian Smith noticed Einkorn walking on the side of the road and the Expedition had moved toward the entrance of the neighborhood. Smith wrote in his report that Einkorn and his girlfriend had gotten into an argument, and she was attempting to get him to return home. Einkorn’s girlfriend said Einkorn had been speaking to another woman, had gotten mad at her and “pushed a table across the room breaking some pictures and approaching her in a aggressive manor placing her in fear of being harmed.” Einkorn confirmed he did push the table and jump at the female, and was taken to Loudon County Jail.
     
  • Jerold Anthony Kilgore, 23, Harriman, was charged with contempt of court and released on $1,500 bond.
     
  • Jeremiah Ray Rust, 34, Kingston, was charged with shoplifting and released on $3,000 bond.
     
  • James Robert Strickland, 39, Lenoir City, was charged with domestic assault and violation of probation and held on $4,000 bond.
June 16
  • Matthew Paul Bingham, 36, Greenback, was charged with driving under the influence and driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $4,000 bond. Stopping a black Ford Escape for going 70 mph in a 35 mph zone on Morganton Road in Greenback, LCSO Deputy Craig Brewer smelled a strong odor of alcohol coming from Bingham, who told the deputy he had too much to drink. “On arrival at the jail he was read implied consent law and agreed to having breathe given for purposes of blood alcohol content to (which) the results showed his blood alcohol to be a .139,” Brewer wrote in his report. Running Bingham’s name through dispatch revealed his license was revoked.
     
  • Katie Ruth Cook, 32, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence and held on $2,000 bond. Responding to a call at a restaurant along U.S. Highway 321 to investigate a complaint on a possible intoxicated driver, Lenoir City Police Officer Tony Arden saw a red Ford Explorer blocking other vehicles from leaving restaurant’s drive through. The driver, Cook, appeared “disoriented and confused,” and Arden could smell a strong odor of alcohol inside the vehicle. After asking Cook to exit the vehicle, Arden said the driver was unsteady on her feet, had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech. “Ms. Cook stated that she had pulled from the drive thru window after paying for her order and was waiting for it to be brought out. I asked Ms. Cook to perform Standard Field Sobriety Tests and she performed very poorly with each task,” Arden wrote in the report. Two children were in the vehicle.
     
  • Diedra Diniel Hammons, 22, Loudon, was charged with aggravated burglary, theft of property, forgery and vandalism and held on $16,000 bond. Dispatched to a Lenoir City retail store because an off-duty deputy noticed a suspect believed to have warrants, Lenoir City Police Officer Tim Holloway identified Hammons. “It was verified she had four warrants for her arrest from Loudon County,” Holloway said in the report.
     
  • Christopher Danie Hutchinson, 32, Knoxville, was charged with contempt of court and held on $200 bond.
     
  • Joshua Kareem McCowan, 35, Sweetwater, was charged with violation of probation and held without bond.
     
  • Brian Keith Moore, 48, Evansville, was charged with public intoxication and released on $1,000 bond.
  • Jimmy Wayne Potter, 68, Loudon, was charged with aggravated assault and released on $5,000 bond. Dispatched to 300 block of Ootsima Lane for a possible domestic shots fired call, LCSO Inv. Sgt. Jeff Russell found Potter and another man standing in the road. According to the report, the man would not leave the residence after Potter asked. After arguing, Potter went inside the house and returned with a hand gun, firing three shots in an attempt to get the man to leave. Potter then got a shotgun, according to the report. “After firing one round he placed the gun on the ground and continued to walk toward (the man) until officers arrived,” Russell wrote in his report.
     
  • Charles Sherman Thaxton, 51, Loudon, was charged with five counts of violation of community corrections and held on $25,000 bond.
June 17
  • Jessie Marie Desola, 22, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released without bond. While parked on Kelly Lane, Lenoir City Police Officer Blake Garland observed a person in a Chevrolet Impala known to have a revoked drivers license. “Upon contact with the defendant and running her information through dispatch, I determined that her license was revoked,” Garland said in the report.
     
  • Clarence Reed Julian, 42, Kingston, was charged with contempt of court and released on $150 bond.
June 18
  • Jacob Aaron Parks, 27, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and released on $1,000 bond.
     
  • Ronald Jack Taylor, 42, Lenoir City, was charged with attachment for juvenile court, two counts of theft of property, aggravated burglary, burglary of motor vehicle and aggravated assault and held on $12,750.
‘Lost’ woman nabbed on drug charges
 
A Riceville woman is facing drug possession and paraphernalia charges after initially telling police that she was “lost” about 3:10 a.m. Sunday along Highway 11.

Loudon County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jamie Ketner said in his report that he gave directions to the driver of a black Dodge Durango at a local hotel and left the area. About 30 minutes later, he saw the same vehicle get off the ramp at Interstate 75 and Pond Creek Road.

While speaking with the driver, Deborah Jean Wilson, 48, Riceville, Ketner and another deputy smelled marijuana in the vehicle, according to the police report. Wilson told police that she had smoked a “joint” and said she had some “Ice” and marijuana in the Durango.
 
Police found 6 grams of marijuana, one pack of rolling papers, one pipe commonly used to smoke methamphetamine and about 3 grams of a substance believed to be meth that was separated into five different bags.
 
After Wilson was arrested and transported to Loudon County Jail without incident, a field test on the baggies came back positive for methamphetamine.
Wilson was charged with the manufacture/sell/delivery/resale of a Schedule II substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and simple possession/casual exchange and held on $33,000 bond.
 
Lenoir City man jailed for break-ins
 
A Lenoir City man has been arrested on multiple theft and burglary charges related to vehicle break-ins at the Lenoir City swimming area known as “The Bluffs.”
 
Jeffrey Jacob Graves, 28, Lenoir City, became a suspect after Loudon County Sheriff’s Office officials checked surveillance of the area and Graves was interviewed. He was arrested Friday and charged with three counts of burglary of a motor vehicle and three counts of theft of property and released on $18,000 bond. Graves was served six active warrants while being held at Loudon County Jail for an investigation.
 
Graves admitted to taking part in the crimes, according to a release from LCSO. Investigators are pursuing charges against another person linked to the crimes.
 
LCSO has tried making people who use the remote location aware that there were ongoing thefts in the area and recommends anyone using the area to use common sense and exercise caution since it is on private property.
 
June 18
  • Rocky Robert Henry, 38, Lenoir City, was charged with child support and released without bond.
     
  • Christi Lee Jacobs, 41, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation on simple possession and held without bond.
     
  • Jermi Lee Jones, 26, Rex, Ga., was charged with criminal trespass and released on $5,000 bond. Responding to a report of a suspicious person at the Avalon Golf and Country Club swimming pool, police spoke with a complainant who said an “unknown black male was beating on the door of the pool house.” The complainant told police that the man jumped the fence at the pool and went into the bathroom. “(The complainant) also states that the black male stated he could go where ever he wanted before jumping the fence,” according to the police report. Police found Jones outside the bathroom of the pool house.
     
  • Dustin Scott Lynn, 32, Loudon, was charged with aggravated stalking and released on $5,000 bond. Seeking an order of protection against Lynn earlier this month, a woman filed an incident report June 15 alleging that Lynn had driven by her apartment and stared at her as he drove by. Two days later while at Lenoir City Police Department, the woman told police that Lynn was again staring her down as he passed along Highway 321. On June 18, the woman saw Lynn driving on Simpson Road West toward a rental company in Lenoir City. During a police interview, Lynn said he was at the rental storage area but was not there for “any legitimate purpose,” according to the police report. Lynn was charged with stalking based on “three separate incidents” of harassment, according to police.
     
  • Bradley Andrew Morgan, 24, Lenoir City, was charged with failure to appear and released without bond.
June 19
  • Susan Ruth Anderson, 51, Loudon, was charged with driving under the influence-first offense and released without bond.
     
  • Joseph Ray Crawford, 36, Vonore, was charged with driving under the influence, violation of probation and driving without a valid license and released on $2,500 bond.
     
  • Paul Leroy Crawford, 40, Vonore, was charged with public intoxication and released on $3,000 bond.
     
  • Sean Ashraf Youssef, 26, Jacksonville, Fla., was charged with criminal simulation and driving without a license and held on $7,000 bond. Conducting a traffic stop on a Dodge Caravan for speeding, police spoke with Youssef, who said he did not have a valid driver’s license in Florida or Tennessee, but that he did have an Illinois license. A check through dispatch revealed that Youssef did not have a valid license, and the man “appeared to be deceptive,” according to police. After getting consent to search the vehicle, police found a counterfeit $20 bill in his wallet and another fake bill in the glove box.
June 20
  • Larry Eugene Costner, 51, Vonore, was charged with driving under the influence-fourth offense reduced to first offense and held on $2,500 bond.
     
  • Larry Jeff Goodman, 19, Loudon, was charged with theft under $500 and released on $1,000 bond. According to officials at a local retail store, Goodman, a store employee at the time of the incidents, was seen taking items during a two-week period. The stolen merchandise totaled $111.46.
     
  • Richard Lynn Littleton, 39, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked license and held without bond.
     
  • Chelsea Hannah Sims, 22, Whitwell, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $2,000 bond.
June 21
  • Joshua Dale Bryant, 33, Knoxville, was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct and held on $5,000 bond.
     
  • Todd Allen Calhoun, 53, Philadelphia, was charged with public intoxication, bringing contraband into a penal institution and driving under the influence-first offense and held on $6,000 bond. Responding to the scene of a possible intoxicated couple at a gas station along Broadway Street in Lenoir City, police spoke with a white male, identified as Calhoun, who was seen stumbling outside the front door of the store. According to police, Calhoun was holding a cup of coffee and spilling it on himself. Police also spoke with another defendant, Angela Copeland, who also displayed signs of intoxication. Copeland was found with an outstanding warrant out of Blount County. After the two were transported to Loudon County Jail, police found a hypodermic needle in the man’s shoe.
     
  • Angela Faye Copeland, 36, Maryville, was charged with driving under the influence, violation of probation and assisting other agency and held on $1,000 bond.
     
  • Michael David Carter, 45, Kingsport, was charged with driving under the influence-second offense, possession of drug paraphernalia and simple possession/casual exchange and held on $8,000 bond.
     
  • Stuart Michael Hamm, 42, Loudon, was charged with public intoxication and released on $1,000 bond.
     
  • Susie Charlene Hancock, 40, Crossville, was charged with driving on a suspended license and released on $2,000 bond.
     
  • Gerald Clint Liles, 38, Lenoir City, was charged with aggravated assault and released on $5,000 bond.
     
  • Margaret Jeannette Minix, 35, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $1,000 bond.
     
  • Manuel Ruiz Ruiz-Diza, 31, Lenoir City, was charged with driving   without a valid license and released on $1,000 bond.
     
  • Dennis Elliott Wallace, 60, Maryville, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $2,000 bond.
     
  • Brittany Renee Wright, 27, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence and cite-in and released on $1,000 bond.
June 22
  • Mark Anthony Stevens, 18, Lenoir City, was charged with disorderly conduct and held on $2,000 bond.

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