News Herald Arrest Report
Man faces
charges after admitting meth use
Traveling north about 10 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 75 at mile marker
84, Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Eric Miller said he saw a Ford
Ranger pulled onto the right shoulder on the south side of the road
with its emergency blinkers on.
About the same time, Miller received a call from dispatch in Knoxville about a reckless driver.
The driver, James Paul Gann Jr., 36, Rossville, Ga., told Miller
he was having trouble with a tire on his vehicle. “The subject
was talkative, could not sit still and displayed indicators of
impairment,” Miller wrote on his report.
Gann was then checked for weapons. Miller found three knives on
Gann, who told police he had no identification and showed the
trooper a citation from a previous stop in Sevierville.
After THP Trooper Robert Woody arrived on the scene to assist
and began speaking with Gann, Miller ran a check on the
citation, which returned the name Brian Christopher Gann. Miller
received a photo from Knoxville dispatch of the man believed to
be Brian Christopher Gann, but Woody and Miller agreed the man
on the highway did not look like the person in the photo.
When the two troopers asked the man for his “true identity,”
Gann said, “‘that is me, I have just lost a lot of weight over
the last three or four years’,” according to Miller’s report.
At that point, Gann became “defensive and uncooperative,” Miller
said.
Later during the stop, police decided to take Gann into custody
after the man supplied Woody with another name for his identity.
While attempting to place Gann in handcuffs, the man became
“actively aggressive, pulling away and attempting to evade,”
Miller said, noting that he and Woody gained control of the
defendant and he was placed under arrest.
“During the altercation the subject received a bloody nose,”
Miller wrote. “This is believed to be the result of my
handcuffs, and I was regaining control of the subject.”
Gann became “extremely combative and belligerent,” and after
being placed in the patrol car “became even more enraged,
banging his head on the cage and attempting to slide his hands
free from the handcuffs. He began asking ‘please shoot me’ over
and over,” Miller wrote.
After arriving at Loudon County Jail, Gann cleared a medical
check and refused a legal blood draw. At the jail, Gann told
police he was “coming down off of methamphetamine and just gets
crazy,” Miller said.
He also told police he had shot meth into his left arm about 3-4
a.m.
Gann was charged with driving under the influence, criminal
impersonation, resisting arrest and evading arrest and held on
$17,000 bond.
June 4
• Amy Elizabeth Everett, 32, Clinton, was charged with violation
of probation and released without bond.
• Brittani Lauren Flint, 25, Seymour, was charged with violation
of probation and released on $2,500 bond.
• Charles Rankin Murphy, 59, Knoxville, was charged with driving
under the influence and cite-in and released on $2,500 bond.
June 5
• Thomas Mason Cratty III, 24, Loudon, was charged with
violation of probation and released on $300 bond.
• William Allen Curtis, 24, Lenoir City, was charged with
aggravated assault and held without bond.
• Devon Russell Fowler, 35, Morristown, was charged with
violation of community corrections and held without bond.
• Jenna Raine Garland, 27, Lenoir City, was charged with public
intoxication and released on $1,000 bond.
• Norman David Gilreath, 55, Lenoir City, was charged with
driving under the influence and released on $1,000 bond.
• Floyd Martin, 41, Decatur, Ga., was charged with
manufacture/sell/delivery/resale of a Schedule II substance,
simple possession/casual exchange and possession of drug
paraphernalia and held on $35,000 bond. Noticing a white Buick
pass with “very dark tinted windows,” Loudon County Sheriff’s
Office Deputy Jamie Ketner said he was unable to see how many
people were in the vehicle and could not read the Georgia
registration information because of a decal. The driver of the
vehicle turned into a parking lot along Highway 72, and while
speaking with Martin, who was a passenger, Ketner could smell
marijuana coming from the vehicle, according to the report. The
driver told Ketner the vehicle might contain a “blunt,”
according to the report. Martin’s 11-year-old daughter was in
the vehicle. While searching the vehicle, police found a
backpack in the trunk containing two baggies with about 4.5
grams of crack cocaine, one digital scale and one box of clear
sandwich bags. Martin told police the backpack and drugs were
his, and he also told police he had some marijuana in his
underwear. Police found Martin had about 3.5 grams of marijuana
once he was checked in at Loudon County Jail.
• Gary Dewayne Walker, 44, Philadelphia, was charged with
attachment-juvenile court and driving on a revoked/suspended
license and released on $1,500 bond.
• Joe Melvin Wilkinson, 59, Knoxville, was charged with driving
under the influence and violation of implied consent and
released on $12,500 bond.
June 6
• Jerry Steven Brown, 55, Philadelphia, was charged with
possession of a schedule II substance and public intoxication
and released on $3,000 bond.
• Jacob Clark Hamilton, 23, Greenback, was charged with
aggravated domestic assault and released without bond.
Dispatched to the scene of a possible domestic fight in the
21900 block of East Coast Tellico Parkway, Maryville Police
officers caught up with a woman at a convenience store near
Foothills Mall in Maryville and also spoke with Hamilton, who
was seen walking near the store. During an interview at the
police department, the woman said she and her boyfriend,
Hamilton, had gotten into a verbal dispute at the East Coast
Tellico Parkway address about the man’s drinking problem. The
woman said Hamilton snatched her purse and attempted to get her
keys to leave the residence. The woman said Hamilton grabbed her
by the throat and knocked her head into the roof of the car, and
afterward she drove Hamilton to the convenience store to replace
the alcohol she had poured out. Upon arriving at the store, the
woman went inside to call 911, and she saw Hamilton begin
walking away. Police reported scratches on the woman’s arms and
redness on her neck.
• Ellis Edward Hill, 47, Lenoir City, was charged with driving
under the influence-first offense and released without bond.
• Seth Benjamin Hinkle, 23, Lenoir City, was charged with
driving under the influence, drag racing, two counts of reckless
driving and violation of implied consent and released on $5,500
bond.
• William Andrew Mercer, 34, Thaxton, Miss., was charged with
domestic assault and held on $4,000 bond. Responding to a call
of a possible domestic fight in the 10600 block of Pond Creek
Road, LCSO Deputy Chris Jenkins spoke with a woman and a
witness, who said the victim and her boyfriend had gotten into a
verbal altercation. The woman told police Wallace was driving
too fast, pulled into a nearby gas station and “was screaming
and cursing her and pushed her out of the car,” Jenkins wrote.
The woman told police the man was pumping the accelerator and
driving at an unsafe speed through the parking lot. Mercer was
found at his place of employment and placed under arrest.
• Gerald Randolph Moore, 59, Sweetwater, was charged with
driving on a revoked/suspended license and held on $2,000 bond.
• Crystal Gale Munsey, 42, Knoxville, was charged with public
intoxication and released on $2,000 bond.
• Jeff Mitchell Taylor, 47, Sweetwater, was charged with theft
over $1,000 and released on $2,500 bond.
• John Henry Wallace, 35, Philadelphia, was charged with driving
on a revoked/suspended license and simple possession and held on
$2,000 bond.
June 7
• Amanda Sue Howard, 35, Knoxville, was charged with contempt of
court and released on $150 bond.
June 8
• Connie Lynn Hunter, 40, Loudon, was charged with felony false
statement and misuse of the 911 emergency system and held on
$6,000 bond.
• Tabitha Alyssa Johnson, 25, Loudon, was charged with criminal
simulation and held on $2,500 bond.
• Coleman A. McJunkins, 21, Greenback, was charged with domestic
assault and held without bond.
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