News Herald Arrest Report

Speeder tries to eat marijuana stash
 
A Lenoir City man is facing tampering charges after law enforcement initially observed his vehicle speeding Friday on Highway 70.
 
Noticing a 2002 Dodge pickup traveling west on Highway 70 at 66 miles per hour in a 40 mph zone, Loudon County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Kenny Palmer stopped the vehicle on the 2000 block of Mealer Road. Palmer talked with Daniel Christopher Langley, 23, who had a “strong odor” of marijuana from his vehicle.
 
Palmer noticed Langley chewing something and asked him to spit it out.
 
“Mr. Langley then opened his mouth and spit out a small plastic baggy with a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana,” Palmer wrote in his report, adding Langley said he had a smoking pipe in his vehicle. “While searching Mr. Langley I located a marijuana pipe in his left front pocket. I also located a clear plastic baggy with a crystal substance believed to be methamphetamine, and rolling papers in his wallet.”
 
Palmer found a pipe commonly used for smoking meth in the vehicle. Dispatch verified Langley’s license had been suspended.
 
Langley was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license, manufacture, sell, delivery and resale of a Schedule II substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, simple possession/casual exchange and tampering/fabricating evidence and released on $36,000 bond.

April 24

• Timothy Moose, 40, Vonore, was charged with burglary and theft of property and held on $80,000 bond. Checking a warehouse in Greenback for trespassers, LCSO Deputy Brian Smith found a truck pulling a long trailer hauling metal trusses. Smith reported that the trusses were not wet although it had rained that evening. He had past knowledge of items being stolen from the building. Smith identified Moose and John Michael Newman. “At this time I found metal tags on the trusses on the trailer with lot identification numbers on them and returned in to the building to find several trusses missing and the lot numbers matched the ones that (were) still in place in the building,” Smith wrote in his report. He “also found loose bolts on the ground where they (were) taken off the trusses before loading them. Next to the bolts and missing trusses was a set of trailer tracks and truck tires that matched the ones that the trusses were found on.” John Michael Newman, 55, Madisonville, was charged with burglary and theft of property and held on $80,000 bond.

April 25

• Christopher Payne Bennett, 22, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of community corrections and held without bond.
 
• Jessica Jean Nicole Edmondson, 30, New Tazewell, was charged with criminal court capias and violation of probation and held on $25,000 bond.
 
• Michael Allen Moates, 42, Kingston, was charged with manufacture, delivery, sale or possession of a Schedule II substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and simple possession/casual exchange and held on $22,000 bond.
 
• Cole Brandon Wininger, 32, Loudon, was charged with possession of legend drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia and held on $1,500 bond.

April 26

• Gabriel Cirilo Arana, 37, Philadelphia, was charged with assisting other agency and released without bond.
 
• Greg Allen Baird, 46, Windfield, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and released on $8,000 bond.
 
• Thomas Joshua Bowers, 27, Sweetwater, was charged with manufacture, delivery, sale or possession a Schedule II substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and simple possession/casual exchange and held on $22,000 bond. Told of a man getting out of a gold van and into a white Lincoln “bleeding really bad from the head,” LCSO Deputy Kenny Palmer observed the vehicle pull onto U.S. Highway 321 and head south on Interstate 75. Palmer stopped the vehicle on the exit 76 ramp to check on the man, who had a cut above his left eye and a “huge” knot. When speaking to others in the vehicle, Palmer noticed Bowers tried to hide something. Bowers was asked to exit the vehicle. “Mr. Bowers stated that nothing had happened; that he hit his head,” Palmer wrote in his report. “While speaking to speaking with the other subjects of the vehicle, I walked (past) the passenger side of the vehicle. I observed a clear plastic baggy with what appeared to be a clear crystal substance believed to be methamphetamine and two green pills.” The pills were identified as morphine sulfate extended release. After Palmer asked to search the vehicle, law enforcement found a backpack Bowers said belonged to him. Inside was a sunglasses case with five syringes, two spoons with an unknown substance, a cut straw and other items used to shoot drugs.
 
• Truman Wayne Chapman, 40, Loudon, was charged with public intoxication and escape and held on $5,500 bond.
 
• Randy Scott Eubanks, 49, Lenoir City, was charged with failure to appear and evading arrest and held on $2,000 bond.
 
• Dwana Leann Littleton, 39, Lenoir City, was charged with juvenile attachment and released on $500 bond.
 
• Octavio Martinez-Prieto, 55, Loudon, was charged with violation of implied consent, driving under the influence and driving on a revoked/suspended license and held on $6,000 bond.
 
• Timothy Chad West, 31, Madisonville, was charged with violation of community corrections and held without bond.

April 27

• Kenneth R. Loveday, 45, Knoxville, was charged with violation of probation and held on $3,000 bond.
 
• Donald Scott Vittitow, 36, Knoxville, was charged with possession of a Schedule II substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and two counts of a firearm in a dangerous situation and held on $52,000 bond. Observing a white Jeep Renegade heading north on Interstate 75 at 76 miles per hour in a 65 mph zone, LCSO Sgt. Jerramie Bowen made a traffic stop at exit 72. Vittitow was asked to step out of the vehicle after he could not produce a rental agreement, according to the report. Bowen noticed in the seat behind the driver’s side there was a tan bag with a clear bag of needles inside. “I then asked Mr. Vittitow if he was diabetic and he stated he was not,” Bowen wrote in his report, noting Vittitow said the bag was his. “I then searched the bag and found another small clear bag with what looks like ice (meth) less than 1 gram. Also in the door pocket of the driver’s side was a Smith and Wesson M&P 50-caliber. ... There was also another bag that had Smith and Wesson 32-caliber revolver inside.” Bowen also found “several” brand new tools in the back of the vehicle, according to the report. Vittitow could not find receipts for the tools.
 
• Adam Brent Burnette, 37, Philadelphia, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• Melinda Sue Majors, 52, Sweetwater, was charged with driving under the influence and driving on a revoked/suspended license and held on $6,000 bond.
 
• Jeremy Harrell Morgan, 36, Philadelphia, was charged with theft of property and failure to appear-municipal court and held on $3,000 bond.
 
• Teonna Denise Russell, 46, Maryville, was charged with driving under the influence, four counts of simple possession/casual exchange, violation of implied consent and possession of legend drugs and held on $15,500 bond.
 
• Timothy M. Russell, 28, Loudon, was charged with failure to appear and released on $1,500 bond.

April 28

• Randal Wheeler Austin, 57, Chico, Calif., was charged with driving under the influence and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Jack Shelley Christian, 46, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence and released without bond.
 
• Mark David Gonzalez, 25, Birmingham, Ala., was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and simple possession/casual exchange and released on $4,000 bond.
 
• Jamie Marie Hartman, 56, Chico, Calif., was charged with driving under the influence and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Christopher J. Merrell, 18, Lenoir City, was charged with theft under $500 and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• Jeff Mitchell Taylor, 49, Niota, was charged with violation of probation and held on $15,000 bond.

April 29

• Oscar Devin Adams, 29, Nashville, was charged with public intoxication and released without bond.
 
• Adam Marcus Beasley, 24, Loudon, was charged with assisting other agency and released without bond.
 
• Tanner Colten Burchfield, 18, Loudon, was charged with driving under the influence and violation of implied consent and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Daniel Wayne Capps, 31, Philadelphia, was charged with possession of a Schedule II substance and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Courtney Nicole Chapman, 23, Knoxville, was charged with theft under $500 and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Joseph Richard Heiple, 33, Lenoir City, was charged with public intoxication and held on $2,000 bond.
 
• Mindy Leigh Lovell, 32, Ten Mile, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and held on $2,000 bond.
 
• John Martin Macuga, 29, Philadelphia, was charged with failure to appear, manufacture, sell, delivery and resale of a Schedule II substance and theft of property and held on $5,000 bond.
 
• Shanda Michelle Patterson, 34, Philadelphia, was charged with failure to appear and violation of probation and held without bond.
 
• Charles Arthur Ritter, 37, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and released without bond.
 
• Claiborne Clay White, 57, Lenoir City, was charged with contempt of court and held on $890.57 bond.

April 30

• Martha Vega Bautista, 21, Byrdstown, was charged with disorderly conduct and held without bond.
 
• Ashley Nicole Bogle, 31, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and held without bond.
 
• Rigobert Casillas-Hernandez, 21, Lenoir City, was charged with disorderly conduct and held without bond.
 
• James Don Daniel Cumby, 29, Crossville, was charged with theft under $1,000 and criminal trespass and released on $4,000 bond.
 
• Jessica Michelle Cumby, 24, Crossville, was charged with theft under $500 and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Bobby Lee Littleton, 37, Loudon, was charged with a juvenile attachment and released on $300 bond.
 
• Jarred Ray Morgan, 19, Maryville, was charged with violation of probation and held without bond.
 
• Donald Jordan Pardu, 24, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence, tampering/fabricating with evidence and manufacture, sell, delivery and resale of a Schedule II substance and held on $31,500 bond.
 
• Portia Nicole Wilson, 23, Lenoir City, was charged with domestic assault-misdemeanor and held without bond. Dispatched to Third Avenue on a domestic call, Lenoir City Police Officer Christian Dragon talked with a woman and Wilson. The woman said she opened a beer can after the two came home. “Wilson got upset and smacked the beer out of (the woman’s) hands,” Dragon wrote in his report. “Wilson stated that (the woman) got upset because she didn’t say hello to (the woman’s) dog when they came home. (The woman) was arguing and yelling at her when she smacked (the woman’s) hands, making her drop the beer can.” Wilson knocked a cellphone out of the woman’s hands after she said she would call 911, according to Dragon’s report.

May 1

• Cletis Eugene McCurry, 50, Loudon, was charged with public intoxication and held without bond.
 
• Chad Avery Shaw, 38, Madisonville, was charged with driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and two counts of simple possession/casual exchange and held without bond.
 
• Jeffery Riley Veal, 34, Lenoir City, was charged with failure to appear and held on $80,000 bond.

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5/8/17