Lenoir City man faces false impr

A domestic dispute led to the arrest of a Lenoir City man after he allegedly prevented a woman from speaking with police early last week.

Responding to a report of a domestic dispute about 11:55 p.m. June 1 in the 15900 block of Buttermilk Road, Loudon County Sheriff’s Office deputies knocked on the door of the residence and called inside, but no one came to the door. Police reported hearing a female crying inside the home.

The woman, Morgan’s girlfriend, told police that he had taken her phone from her.

“When she tried to get it back to call for a ride he would push her away,” Deputy Craig Brewer wrote in his report. “As this went on he then pushed her back in to the residence. While in there he grabbed her by the throat several times and slammed her to the ground. He then held her down and was choking her. She stated she could not breathe and started fighting back.”

By the time deputies arrived, the physical altercation was over, but Morgan had blocked her from coming to the door to speak with officers, according to the woman.

Morgan was charged with false imprisonment, domestic assault and assisting other agency and held on $4,000 bond.

June 1

Brandy T. Jeffers, 25, Lenoir City, was charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct and released on $2,000 bond. Receiving a call from an off-duty officer about a person “yelling and screaming” outside an apartment complex at McGhee Square, police arrived on the scene and saw Jeffers “screaming profanities to people outside,” according to the arrest report. While speaking with Jeffers, police could detect the smell of an alcoholic beverage and noticed she had slurred speech and bloodshot eyes. Police determined that she was a danger to herself and to the public and was taken into custody.
Dustin Duane Rolen, 27, Lenoir City, was charged with disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia and held on $2,000 bond.

June 2

Robert Adam Dunlap, 26, Maryville, was charged with aggravated burglary and held without bond.
Brittany Nicole McCulloch, 27, Lenoir City, was charged with public intoxication and released on $1,000 bond. LCSO Deputy Dustin Langley, with assistance from Cpl. Billy Hall, spoke with McCulloch in the lobby at Loudon County General Sessions Court. The woman appeared intoxicated and had “very slurred speech and was unsteady on her feet,” according to Langley. Hall asked McCulloch if she was taking any prescription medication, and the woman said she was not. After performing field sobriety tests, police placed McCulloch under arrest for public intoxication.
Charles Bo Pruett, 36, Harriman, was charged with theft under $500 and held without bond. According to a complaint affidavit, Pruett entered a grocery story March 10 in Lenoir City, walked to the meat department, took 16 packs of steaks and placed them in a cart. Pruett then proceeded past all points of sale, walked to his vehicle, loaded the steaks and drove away. The act was captured on store surveillance footage, according to police. The steaks were valued at $320.

June 3

Joshua Eldon Giles, 29, Loudon, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,000 bond. Dispatched to a call of a reckless driver on Prospect Church Road in which the driver almost ran the complainant off the road, police found a Chevrolet Monte Carlo at a residence in the 1500 block of Prospect Church Road in the driveway a few feet away from the main road. The motor and lights of the car were on. As officers pulled in behind the car, the motor shut off and an officer spotted a white male jump out of the driver seat of the car and start running toward the residence, according to the arrest report. Police stopped the man, Giles, who said he was not driving the car but moving it in the driveway so his wife could get out. After Giles was placed in the patrol car, police spoke with Giles’ wife, who said Giles had “left to go get pizza and she did not know where he was coming from,” according to police. A complainant said he and a woman were riding horses on Prospect Church Road when he heard a car coming near them quickly from Highway 72. The witness said he looked back and saw the Monte Carlo run off the road into a ditch. The man said he followed the car in his truck and watched the driver turn into the Prospect Church Road residence.
Aaron Mikal Hunt, 33, Loudon, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $1,000 bond. Lenoir City Police Officer Brandon Gentry pulled up to a Mitsubishi that was believed to be disabled. Upon reaching the car window, Gentry noticed that the driver appeared unconscious in the seat. When he opened the door, Gentry smelled an “overwhelming odor” of alcohol. After waking Hunt, Gentry performed field sobriety tests, which Hunt could not pass, according to the police report. Hunt was placed under arrest and transported to Fort Loudoun Medical Center for a blood sample.
Cody Cameron Orsak, 25, College Station, Texas, was charged with driving on a suspended license and released on $4,000 bond.
Kimberly Marie Reagan, 27, Lenoir City, was charged with theft under $500 and released on $5,000 bond. According to LCPD Officer Keith Sennett, Reagan was shopping at a local retail store when the owner noticed she appeared to be concealing items in her purse and clothing. After Reagan left the store, the owner and an employee reviewed the video footage and found Reagan had taken $647.45 worth of merchandise without paying. The store owner contacted Reagan and gave her two hours to return the items. The woman returned to the store with $421.08 worth of items, according to police. The store reported that $102 worth of merchandise was damaged, and Reagan paid for the damaged items. Reagan failed to return $226.37 worth of items, according to police.

June 4

Brittani Lane Flint, 25, Seymour, was charged with violation of probation and held without bond.
Charles Rankin Murphy, 59, Knoxville, was charged with driving under the influence and cite-in only and held on $2,500 bond.

Man jailed for paraphernalia, burglary tools

A Madison man was taken to Loudon County Jail after being found with drug paraphernalia and tools used to commit a burglary.

Approaching a vehicle at a former grocery store in Philadelphia, Loudon County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jamie Ketner went to the driver’s side window and noticed a pair of bolt cutters in the passenger’s seat and a steel pole in the driver’s side door.

David Allen Freshour, 32, Madisonville, was asked to step out of the vehicle, and police located a needle beside him, which Freshour said was used to shoot narcotics.

Deputies learned that Freshour was wanted on a failure to appear charge out of Florida. A passenger told police that the man had stolen items from Walmart, planned to steal some lawn mowers in Sweetwater and planned to burglarize a gold store in Madisonville. The passenger also told deputies that Freshour was going to use the stolen items to purchase methamphetamine and that the vehicle they were in may have be stolen.

“(The passenger) stated that she was unaware of his motives and was under the impression that they were going to a bon fire,” Ketner wrote in his report.

Freshour was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of burglary tools and held on $4,000 bond.

‘Habitual’ offender gets various charges

A Vonore man is facing numerous charges after leaving the scene of accident during an incident Thursday along Highway 411 in Greenback.

Responding to the scene of a wreck involving a hit and run at Highway 95 and Morganton Road, Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Ryan Smith spoke with the driver who allegedly left the scene, Larry Eugene Costner, 51, Vonore. According to Smith, Costner had a strong odor of alcohol, had slurred speech, was unsteady on his feet and had bloodshot and watery eyes.

Police also identified two passengers, a male, Donnie Joe Holloway, 41, Vonore, who Smith said was passed out when he arrived, and a female.

“I then asked the driver (Costner) how much ... alcohol had he had to drink today,” Smith said. “He then stated that they had been fishing and drinking, that they were having a great time and repeated his story multiple times, however he never did answer my question of how much he had to drink just that they had been drinking.”

Smith said Costner was “very confused,” could not field basic questions and did not pass field sobriety tasks.

After placing Costner in the back seat of the cruiser, Smith ran a check through dispatch and found the man was driving on a revoked license, that the most recent incident was his fourth driving under the influence offense and that Costner was an “Habitual Traffic Offender.” Costner also spit on a police laptop, according to Smith.

Costner was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license, driving under the influence-fourth offense, leaving the scene of an accident/property damage and violation of implied consent and held on $20,000 bond.

Holloway was charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct and held on $3,000 bond.

May 27

Sharon Lee Shelton, 45, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and released on $5,000 bond.

May 28

Gordon David Clark, 34, Lenoir City, was charged with aggravated burglary and fraudulent use of a credit card and held without bond.
Stephen Rodriguez King, 29, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation-domestic and held without bond.

May 29

Taylor Schae Courtney, 24, homeless, was charged with violation of probation, cite-in and failure to appear-general session and held without bond.
Eric Lane Curtis, 21, Lenoir City, was charged with aggravated assault and especially aggravated burglary on a federal warrant and held on $22,500 bond.
Billy Joe Hill, 35, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and released without bond.
Steffone Maurice McClendon, 41, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,000 bond.
Brittany Marie Smith, 27, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation on simple possession and bringing contraband into a penal institution and held on $5,000 bond.
William Bernice Watson, 37, Rockwood, was charged with violation of probation-second offense and held on $4,000 bond.
Mark Douglas Wright, 51, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,000 bond.

May 30

Patrick Lewis Cagle, 21, Knoxville, was charged with taking wildlife without a license and released on $2,000 bond.
Brittany Nicole Foster, 25, Lenoir City, was charged with failure to appear-general session and held on $2,000 bond.
Juaquin Lopez, 28, Loudon, was charged with domestic assault and held on $3,000 bond. Responding to a call of a possible domestic dispute in the 130 block of Riverview Drive, police spoke with a woman, who said she and her boyfriend, Lopez, were separating. The woman said she put the man’s property on the front porch for him to pick up, and the two began to argue. During the verbal dispute, the woman told police that she went inside the house in an attempt to avoid more arguing, but Lopez followed her inside. The woman told officers that Lopez grabbed her by the throat and pushed her against the refrigerator, and officers noticed a “large red scratch” on the woman’s neck and face and “several small cuts on her arm,” according to the arrest report. Police also noticed that the refrigerator was out of position.
Angela Jill Reeser, 35, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,000 bond.
Ricky Lynn Smallen, 48, Philadelphia, was charged with two counts of simple possession/casual exchange, driving on a revoked/suspended license and possession of drug paraphernalia and released on $4,000 bond.
Natalisha Coray Sona, 20, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation on theft and released on $1,000 bond.
Trent Alexander Weaver, 22, Sweetwater, was charged with possession of a handgun while under the influence, aggravated assault, domestic violence, possession of drug paraphernalia and vandalism and held on $22,000 bond.

May 31

Laquivia Myeshia Barbee, 24, Cincinnati, Ohio, was charged with driving on a suspended license-fourth offense and held without bond.
Moyses Aguilara Olvera, 60, Loudon, was charged with driving under the influence-second offense (reduced to first offense) and held without bond.
Shannon Elaine Patterson, 38, Loudon, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,000 bond.
Kenneth Gregory Vest, 39, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence, two counts of possession of legend drugs and two counts of simple possession/casual exchange and released on $6,000 bond.
Lydia Grace Williams, 21, Hugo, Okla., was charged with domestic assault and held without bond. Responding to a call of a domestic dispute at a gas station along Highway 321, Lenoir City Police Department Officer Jason Arden spoke with a woman who said that she and her sister, Williams, had gotten into a verbal argument while traveling along Interstate 40 “that resulted in spilled urine from the offender,” Arden wrote. The woman got off the interstate and went to the gas station, where she and Williams continued arguing about the spill. The woman said while still in the vehicle, Williams struck her on the face and head while pulling her hair before she could leave the vehicle. Arden said the woman had “red swollen skin that supports the series of events described and the offender did admit to resorting to physical contact with the victim.”

June 1

Thomas Mason Cratty III, 24, Loudon, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $1,000 bond.
Benjamin Hilton Nicholson, 25, Lenoir City, was charged with domestic assault and held on $2,000 bond. Responding to a domestic call in the 200 block of Hill Street, police spoke with a woman who said Nicholson hit her in the head with a cellphone, but she would not write a statement about the incident and told police that Nicholson had left the scene and gone to a residence on Brittni Lane. An officer found Nicholson walking down Rock Springs Road, and when the man was driven back to the Hill Street residence, he said he got into a fight with the woman and said he hit her in the head with the phone.
Patricia Lynn Shubert, 18, Philadelphia, was charged with underage consumption and public intoxication and held on $2,000 bond. Responding to a call for service along Highway 321, police spoke with Shubert, who said she had been drinking alcohol, according to the arrest report. Police determined Shubert was a danger to herself and others because she was “encouraging another intoxicated male to use a firearm,” according to the report.