Police blotter: Lenoir City man charged with drugs, invalid ID
A Lenoir City man was taken to Loudon County Jail after being
found with what police identified as an invalid passport from
Mexico, marijuana and cocaine.
Officers with the Ninth Judicial District drug task force,
Lenoir City Police Department and Loudon County Sheriff’s Office
executed a search warrant May 14 at a residence in the 100 block
of White Wing Road. Serafin Zavala, 30, Lenoir City, was known
as an aggravated re-entry because of his criminal history and
past deportations.
During the operation, police found Zavala to be in
possession of a falsified Mexican passport with the name
Carlos Gonzalez Frutos. Zavala identified himself to police
as Frutos, according to the police report.
Upon searching the residence, police found one-half pound of
marijuana, about 2 1/2 ounces of cocaine, which was packaged
for resale, and scales, according to police. The residence
at White Wing Road was within less than 1,000 feet of a day
care facility.
Zavala was charged with manufacture/sell/delivery/resale of
a Schedule II substance, manufacture/sell/delivery/resale of
a Schedule VI substance, possession of drug paraphernalia,
criminal impersonation and identity theft and held on a
$29,500 bond.
May 15
• Wayne Timothy Anderson, 47, Loudon, was charged with false
imprisonment and released on a $1,500 bond. Police reported
that about 11:45 p.m. May 9, Anderson “knowingly and
unlawfully” confined two people in their home with a padlock
on the outside of their front door at a residence on West
Lee Highway in Loudon, according to the police report.
According to the police and statements from the two people,
Anderson “knew or should have known” that they were in the
apartment because he spoke with them as they entered. The
incident was part of an ongoing rental dispute, according to
the police report.
• Zachary Shawn Melton, 20, Loudon, was charged with simple
possession/casual exchange and released on a $1,000 bond.
Stopping a vehicle for going 47 mph in a 35 mph zone, Loudon
County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Kenny Palmer reported that
the passengers in the seat with Melton appeared “very
nervous.” After asking if he could search the vehicle,
Melton smelled a “strong odor” of marijuana on a passenger,
who admitted to putting an item down his pants. The
passenger retrieved the item, which Palmer said he believed
to be marijuana. While searching the vehicle, Palmer located
another baggy between the driver and passenger seat, rolling
papers in the driver’s side door and a grinder located at
the back of the vehicle in a speaker box. A passenger, Roy
Austin Oller, 18, Loudon, said the grinder belonged to him,
but the rolling papers were not his. Melton and Oller said
the baggy with the green substance and the rolling papers
were not theirs. Since the baggy was located within reach of
all the occupants in the vehicle, Melton and Oller were
arrested for simple possession.
• Roy Austin Oller, 18, Loudon, was charged with simple
possession/casual exchange and possession of drug
paraphernalia and released on a $2,000 bond.
• Matthew James Watts, 19, Loudon, was charged with simple
possession/casual exchange and released on a $1,000 bond.
• Forest Stream Smiley, 33, Knoxville, was charged with
evading arrest and held on a $2,000 bond. Stopping a vehicle
for the driver not wearing a seat belt at a gas station
along Highway 411, police began speaking with Smiley when a
passenger said he had to go to the restroom. The passenger
then began running into the woods off Niles Ferry Road.
Police told Smiley to stay where he was, but when the
officer returned, Smiley had fled in his vehicle and was
traveling toward Vonore along Highway 411. Police in Vonore
pulled over the vehicle, and when interviewed by police,
Smiley said he fled because he didn’t want his vehicle to be
towed. Smiley was found to have warrants in McMinn and
Monroe counties.
• Billy Shane Whitten, 43, Loudon, was charged with driving
on a revoked/suspended license and released on a $1,000
bond.
• William P. Wilder, 40, Powell, was charged with contempt
of court and released on a $1,500 bond.
May 16
• Dawn Barrow, 33, Rossville, Ga., was charged with
violation of probation-forgery and held without bond.
• Stacy Eugene Branson, 47, Lenoir City, was charged with
dog at large and released on a $1,000 bond.
• Rebecca Lynne Cate, 36, Knoxville, was charged with
driving under the influence, simple possession/casual
exchange, driving under the influence/simple possession and
violation of implied consent and released on a $14,000 bond.
Responding to a call of a reckless driver traveling along
Interstate 75, Loudon County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Cody
Fritts was advised that the driver had gone off the road
multiple times and was “driving all over the roadway.”
Fritts said he saw the vehicle driving in the fast lane,
cross the shoulder line and almost go into the grass. Cate
told police that she did not know she had almost gone off
the road. When asked if she had taken any medication, Cate
said she had taken methadone. Cate was unsteady on her feet
as she exited the vehicle, and she performed poorly on field
sobriety tests, according to Fritts. Cate, who refused a
blood test, was found to have a white pill that was
identified as zolpidem tartrate, according to the police
report. She was also found to have a failure to appear
warrant out of Loudon County.
• Jackie Paul Cheek, 37, Corryton, was charged with driving
on a revoked license-third offense and released on a $2,000
bond.
• Michael Loranze Garber, 40, Mosheim, was charged with
driving under the influence and released on a $3,000 bond.
• Marc Christopher Hoover, 27, Loudon, was charged with
driving under the influence-third offense and was released
on a $5,000 bond.
• Kristina Elizabeth Jones, 46, Philadelphia, was charged
with violation of probation and released on a $1,000 bond.
• Caleb Lee Kervin, 26, Lenoir City, was charged with
driving under the influence and violation of implied consent
and released on a $2,000 bond.
• Dustin Casey Lester, 20, Greenback, was charged with
underage driving while intoxicated and released on a $3,000
bond. Dispatched to a crash on Highway 95 in Greenback,
police found a white sport utility vehicle resting against a
porch and partially in the corner of a house. When police
arrived, Lester was speaking with emergency personnel and
appeared to be unsteady on his feet, according to the police
report. Police asked Lester if he had been drinking, and
Lester said that he had 1 1/2 drinks. When asked how long it
had been since his last drink, Lester told police about an
hour. Later, Lester told police he had three drinks. He
performed poorly on field sobriety tests, according to
police.
• Connie Lynn Weaver, 37, Knoxville, was charged with
driving under the influence and released without bond.
May 17
• Danny Ray Graves, 43, Loudon, was charged with aggravated
assault and released on a $5,000 bond.
• Tyler Jackson Massey, 30, Farragut, was charged with
domestic assault and released on a $2,500 bond.
Lenoir City man found with marijuana
Dispatched to a call about a suspicious vehicle at
Williams Ferry Road in Lenoir City, Loudon County
Sheriff’s Office Deputy Ben Everett saw a Honda Accord
sitting in a parking lot. Speaking with Nathan Robert
Schaich, 33, Lenoir City, Everett said in the police
report that the man looked “very nervous and began
talking to himself.”
Schaich agreed to a police request for a field test to
make sure he was able to drive but did not follow
commands and performed poorly on the tasks, according to
the report.
While patting down Schaich, Everett found a “small
amount” of a substance that was believed to be
marijuana in a bag in Schaich’s pocket. Everett also
found a bowl used for taking drugs, Everett said.
“The bowl was made out of a clear plastic bottle
with tin foil wrapped around the end of the bottle
and had particles of the green leafy substance
located inside of it,” Everett said.
Everett asked Schaich when was the last time he
smoked marijuana and the man said he had just used
some before police arrived on the scene. Schaich was
placed under arrest and transported to Loudon County
Jail.
At the jail and after a more thorough search, a
Suboxone wrapper was located inside Schaich’s
wallet, which contained one strip of the drug inside
the wrapper.
Schaich was charged with bringing contraband into a
penal institution, possession of drug paraphernalia
and simple possession/casual exchange and released
on $2,000 bond.
May 18
- Shannon Nicole Cantrell, 34, Knoxville, was
charged with violation of probation and held without
bond.
- Dillon Chase Marley, 22, Loudon, was charged
with disorderly conduct, obstructing a
highway/passageway and criminal trespass and held on
$3,000 bond.
- Kenneth H. Metzger, 69, Loudon, was charged with
aggravated assault and held on $5,000 bond.
- Christopher Lynn Powell, 25, Sweetwater, was
charged with driving on a revoked license and
released on $1,500 bond.
- Donald Jason Trew, 36, Madisonville, was charged
with violation of probation and held on $2,000 bond.
- Cassandra Marie Hatfield, 22, Tellico Plains,
was charged with violation of probation and held on
$2,000 bond.
- Ray David Hensley, 50, Lenoir City, was charged with simple possession/casual exchange and driving on a revoked license and released on $2,000 bond. Observing a Dodge Dakota that did not have working brake lights at the intersection of Highways 321 and 70, police found Hensley was driving on a revoked license. When officers asked if Hensley had anything illegal in his possession, Hensley retrieved “four white pills from a money envelope in the passenger seat,” according to the report. The pills were identified as hydrocodone.
May 19
- Ray Scott Cox, 51, Maryville, was charged with
driving on a revoked/suspended license and released
on $2,000 bond.
- Dylan Curtis Ferguson, 21, Lenoir City, was
charged with writing worthless checks and released
on $1,000 bond.
- Brandon Lee Houck, 19, Knoxville, was charged
with violation of probation and held on $2,000 bond.
- Jamie Lynn McDonald, 35, Madisonville, was
charged with violation of probation-theft under $500
and released on $2,000 bond.
- Nicholas Rashad Strickland, 24, Oliver Springs, was charged with violation of probation-driving on a suspended license and released on $2,000 bond.
- Matthew Steven Whitson, 29, Loudon, was charged
with driving on a revoked/suspended license and
released on $1,000 bond.
- Jeremy Justin Bennett, 22, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and possession of drug paraphernalia and released on $2,000 bond. Conducting a traffic stop on a Chevrolet Cobalt for the driver not wearing a seat belt, Loudon County Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Dailey said Bennett appeared “noticeably nervous” and did not hand over his driver’s license until a second request. A check through the National Crime Information Center showed that Bennett’s license was revoked. After making a request to search the vehicle, Dailey found a black and silver box wrapped in towels that Bennett said he got while scrapping metal. “He (Bennett) advised to go ahead and open the box in which after cracking the box open I could see multiple syringes,” Dailey said. “Inside the box was 3 syringes, 2 spoons, 1 razor blade, and a black cylinder with a Tylenol inside.” Bennett told police that the box was not his. At Loudon County Jail, Bennett told police that the pill found inside the container was only a Tylenol and that the box belonged to a friend of the passenger in the vehicle. The car was turned over to the owner.
May 20
- Amy Kera Foxx, 33, Lenoir City, was charged with
failure to appear-driving on a suspended license and
released on $1,000 bond.
- Marty Allen Newman, 42, Loudon, was charged with
driving on a revoked/suspended license and released
on $1,000 bond.
- Robert Joseph Pennington II, 55, homeless, was
charged with theft under $500 and held on $2,000
bond. Pennington visited a grocery store in Loudon
and while inside concealed $18.99 worth of
merchandise in a bag and left the store without
paying for the items, according to the report. The
incident was captured on the store surveillance
video.
- Merridith Chase Hicks, 48, Loudon, was charged with criminal simulation and held without bond.
May 21
- Steve Warren Bryant, 43, Lenoir City, was
charged with bringing contraband into a penal
institution, manufacture/sell/delivery/resale of a
Schedule I substance and possession of drug
paraphernalia and held without bond.
- Tiffany Louann Haun, 33, Lenoir City, was
charged with violation of probation and contempt of
court and held on $150 bond.
- Jeremiah Lynn Hudgins, 40, Knoxville, was
charged with possession of a Schedule II substance
reduced to simple possession and held without bond.
- Barbara Jo Lawrence Sparks, 51, Lenoir City, was charged with the manufacture/sell/delivery/resale of a Schedule I substance and held without bond.