News Herald Arrest Report

Pair of women face drug charges
 
Two women were arrested last week for allegedly selling methamphetamine after police responded to the call of a suspicious person in the 200 block of 6th Avenue,  in Lenoir City.

Dispatched to the location, Lenoir City Police Officer Tyrel Lorenz spotted two females in a vehicle and smelled a scent of burnt marijuana coming from the car, according to the arrest report.

Identifying the driver as Autumn Chassity Julian, 22, Lenoir City, and the passenger as Sara Marie Moore, 26, homeless, Lorenz learned through dispatch that Julian had an active warrant out of Lenoir City, according to the report.
 
A search of Julian uncovered a straw and a small bag in her possession. During a search of the vehicle, police found a bag containing a loaded pellet gun in the center console and a bag with about 1 gram of crystal methamphetamine, two digital scales, six syringes, multiple clear bags and tweezers.
 
"Based on my training and experience it is believed that Ms. Moore and Ms. Julian are selling narcotics," Lorenz wrote.
 
Julian was charged with manufacture/sell/delivery/resale of a Schedule II substance and violation of probation and held on $24,000 bond.
 
Moore was charged with manufacture/sell/delivery/resale of a Schedule II substance and held on $20,000 bond.
 
Dec. 10
 
• James Anthony Cline, 54, Knoxville, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Derek Lee Coleman, 28, White Pine, was charged with forgery/fraudulent use of a credit/debit card and released on $7,000 bond.
 
• Kristen O'Neal Tatum, 50, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence and violation of implied consent and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Steven Dewayne Walton, 35, Newport, was charged with failure to appear on violation of probation and held on $4,000 bond.
 
• Tanner Earl Wilkerson, 22, Lenoir City, was charged with public intoxication and burglary of a motor vehicle and released on $6,000 bond.
 
• Robert Andrew Yelverton, 26, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license, evading-misdemeanor and two counts of failure to appear and released on $8,000 bond.
 
Dec. 11
 
• Robert John Duffy, 48, Lenoir City, was charged with domestic assault-misdemeanor and released on $1,000 bond. Dispatched to a call of a domestic dispute at the WindRiver gatehouse, Loudon County Sheriff's Office Deputy Jimmy Yoakum spoke with a women, who said she and Duffy began arguing in his car, according to the arrest report. The woman told police that Duffy slammed on the brakes of the car, which caused her to hit her head and injure her neck. The woman said she got out of the vehicle when Duffy "grabbed her by her throat and began squeezing very hard," Yoakum wrote, noting that Duffy pushed her to the floor in the laundry room, and when she attempted to leave the residence, the man threw an object at her car, according to the report. Duffy told deputies that the woman had "continually struck him and would not calm down," adding that the woman hit him with a belt. Duffy also told deputies that he had to push her down to get the woman to stop striking him. The woman's mother told officers that she heard a loud sound and saw the woman lying on the floor. Yoakum said he saw two red marks on the woman's neck and discoloration at the front of her neck, according to the report. The officer found a small red area on Duffy's left arm. Duffy was determined to be the primary aggressor.
 
• Olivia Ann Friedman, 33, Anderson, was charged with resisting arrest and held on $3,000 bond.
 
• Christy Ann Whisenhunt, 34, Loudon, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $2,000 bond.
 
Dec. 12
 
• Willie Arron Click, 29, Knoxville, was charged with habitual motor offender and held on $10,000 bond.
 
• Rex-Allen Hawkins, 32, Greenback, was charged with violation of community corrections and held without bond.
 
• Taylor Wayne Hill, 19, Lenoir City, was charged with underage driving while intoxicated and open container and released on $1,500 bond.
 
• Amanda Sue Howard, 36, Knoxville, was charged with disorderly conduct and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Jose Antonio Marroquin-Diaz, 45, Lenoir City, was charged with domestic assault-misdemeanor and public intoxication and released on $2,500 bond. Responding to a domestic call in the 7800 block of Highway 11 West, LCSO Deputy J.C. Schultz learned through dispatch that a man was beating on the door of an apartment and trying to enter the residence, according to the arrest report. Schultz arrived on the scene to find Marroquin-Diaz walking around in the parking lot. The man had an odor of alcohol and had slurred speech, according to the report. Schultz said Marroquin-Diaz refused to supply his identification as he sat on the porch of his apartment. A woman at the residence told deputies that the man "had been drinking, then beat holes in the door, and hit her with a chair while he pushed her down," Schultz wrote. "There were holes in the door of the apartment and marks on (the girlfriend's) leg." Schultz said the apartment showed signs that a struggle had taken place.
 
• Eric Jay Stevens, 42, Knoxville, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and possession of drug paraphernalia and held on $4,000 bond. Stopping a vehicle for a bad headlight, LCSO Cpl. Chris Hutchens spoke with Stevens, who said something was wrong with his car, according to the arrest report. Stevens told deputies that he did not have a license. A check through the National Crime Information Center revealed that Stevens' driver's license was revoked for driving under the influence. "I asked Stevens if there was anything illegal in the vehicle to which he stated there was a large amount of needles (in the car) and that he uses heroin," Hutchens wrote. Police found "at least" 15 "opened and used needles," two straws and a tourniquet in the vehicle.
 
• Scott Allen Williamson, 49, Sevierville, was charged with violation of probation and held on $2,000 bond.
 
• Justin Paul Wright, 31, Loudon, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• Roberto Zavala-Garcia, 37, Sweetwater, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and ignition interlock devices and released on $4,000 bond.
 
Dec. 13
 
• Perry Gordon Billingsley, 56, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and held on $1,000 bond.
 
• Kristina Leanna Chastain, 19, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license, driving under the influence and violation of implied consent and released on $2,500 bond.
 
• Michael James Chastain, 18, Lenoir City, was charged with underage consumption and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• John Devin Collins, 25, Knoxville, was charged with driving under the influence and held without bond.
 
• Richard Eubanks, 36, Knoxville, was charged with violation of probation on burglary and held without bond.
 
• Fredrick David Hall, 43, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• Lauren MacKenzie Howard, 18, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence by consent and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• John Alexander Koty, 22, Greenback, was charged with simple possession and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• Randy Lee McCallie, 44, Philadelphia, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, simple possession/casual exchange and driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $6,000 bond. Noticing a red van traveling along North Trigonia Road with an invalid registration and a bad brake light, LCSO Deputy Cody Fritts checked the driver, McCallie, through dispatch and learned that the man was driving on a revoked license. During a search of McCallie, police found a red cut straw with white residue in his front pocket, and in the vehicle police located a plastic bag of marijuana in the middle console, according to the arrest report.
 
• Sherry Lynn McCallum, 50, Loudon, was charged with driving under the influence and speeding 21 mph over the limit and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Grace Evelyn Moody, 22, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence and cite-in and released on $1,500 bond.
 
• Julian Lopez Navarrette, 18, Loudon, was charged with theft of property and aggravated burglary and released on $5,000 bond.
 
• Earl Leland Perkey, 34, Soddy-Daisy, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and released without bond.
 
• Caroline Bridgett Strange, 46, Lenoir City, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and two counts of simple possession/casual exchange and released on $3,000 bond.
 
Dec. 14
 
• Jonathon Jurovschi, 26, Buford, Ga., was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and held without bond.
 
• David Tommy Smith, 32, Maynardville, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and held on $2,000 bond.

Maryville man charged with DUI, drugs

A Maryville man was taken into custody after police were dispatched to a possible wreck along East Coast Tellico Parkway.

Arriving to the scene, Loudon County Sheriff's Office Deputy J.C. Schultz saw a silver Chevrolet truck sitting across the curb, and the vehicle's driver was later identified as Randel Todd Walker, 46, Maryville, according to the arrest report.

Police found a “large pool of liquid” on the driver's side of the car, which Walker said was urine. Walker told police he had drank four beers. He displayed signs of intoxication and performed poorly on field sobriety tests, Schultz wrote.
 
During a search of the truck, deputies found a black tin that contained marijuana and a red cigarette pack containing marijuana. The marijuana weighed 4 grams, according to the report. A silver pipe with residue was found in the console.
 
Walker told deputies that the drugs and paraphernalia belonged to him, according to the report.
 
He was charged with driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and simple possession/casual exchange and released on $7,000 bond.
 
Dec. 14
 
• Amber Marie Harrison, 31, Harriman, was charged with violation of probation and held on $2,000 bond.
 
• Ashley Kay Morrell, 20, Johnson City, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Chantell Deniene Pelfrey, 38, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and released on $1,000 bond.
 
Dec. 15
 
• Jacob Lee Baker, 20, Loudon, was charged with three counts of violation of probation and held on $1,000 bond.
 
• Stephen Alexander Maher, 33, Powell, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and held on $4,000 bond.
 
• Timothy Allen Poe, 24, Loudon, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and violation of probation and held without bond.
 
• Steven Ray Self, 39, Knoxville, was charged with theft under $500 and theft of property and held on $4,000 bond.
 
• Daniel Lee Tallent, 36, Madisonville, was charged with contempt of court and released on $150 bond.
• William Robert Taylor, 42, Loudon, was charged with public intoxication and released without bond.
 
• William Patrick Weatherly, 65, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $1,000 bond. Responding to a wreck along Hickory Creek Road, Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Eric Miller found that a red Ford F-150 ran off the left side of the road and hit a tree after the driver, Weatherly, failed to navigate the turn, according to the arrest report. Miller wrote that multiple Bud Light containers were found at the scene, and Weatherly displayed signs of intoxication. A witness told the trooper that he had seen Weatherly before the wreck and that the man was “extremely intoxicated,” according to the report. Weatherly was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center for treatment of injuries.
 
• Gregory Gilbert White, 39, Lenoir City, was charged with fugitive from justice and released without bond. Responding to a call of two suspicious people in the 500 block of U.S. Highway 321, police learned that White had a warrant out of Ohio.
 
• Earl Victor Williams, 45, Loudon, was charged with theft under $500 out of Knox County and released without bond.
 
• Fredi Zavala, 19, Lenoir City, was charged with misuse of 911 emergency system and released on $1,000 bond. Dispatched to a call of a breaking and entering in progress in the 400 block of 5th Avenue, Lenoir City Police Officer Tyrel Lorenz wrote in the arrest report that law enforcement had been called to the same address multiple times. “This was the third time officers were dispatched to the address today for calls in this nature that all turned out to be false calls,” Lorenz wrote. “Officers warned the people at the residence previously not to call unless there was a real emergency.” Lorenz spoke with Zavala, along with two other individuals at the residence, who “continued to state … that people were in the house and (trying) to also break into the home,” according to the report. A woman told police that she directed Zavala to call the police so she would not go to jail.
 
Dec. 16
 
• Dakota Austin Capooth, 19, Lenoir City, was charged with capias-theft and released on $3,000 bond.
 
• Henry Earl Cutshaw, 37, Lenoir City, was charged with burglary-theft of property and released on $6,000 bond.
 
• April Dawn Denton, 42, Lenoir City, was charged with theft of property and violation of probation and held on $8,500 bond.
 
• Christopher Neil Gracie, 29, Loudon, was charged with violation of probation and held without bond.
 
• Shane Alan Price, 26, Greenback, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and held on $2,000 bond.
 
• Jodi Lynn Thigpen, 46, Lenoir City, was charged with public intoxication and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• Lee Thomas Van Dyne, 24, Knoxville, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $2,000 bond.
 
Dec. 17
 
• Colby Ryan Coco, 27, Fort Walton Beach, Fla., was charged with criminal impersonation and held without bond.
 
• Ernest Alvin Hendrickson, 68, Lenoir City, was charged with sexual battery by an authority figure and released on $6,000 bond.
 
• Dandy Mejia, 20, Loudon, was charged with driving without a valid driver's license and held without bond.
 
• Brian Wayne Mendenhall, 28, Loudon, was charged with simple possession/casual exchange and possession of drug paraphernalia and held without bond.
 
• Angel Dawn Micheau, 29, Lenoir City, was charged with two counts of attachment-juvenile court and held on $300 bond.
 
• Chinyan Ye, 50, Loudon, was charged with tax evasion and released on $1,000 bond.

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