According to sources, Heather Leann Fraze, 26, Marble Lane, Greenback, was taken into custody on a list of charges that included theft by receiving stolen property and drugs.
Dalton Police spokesman Bruce Frazier said police received a call of a person underneath a vehicle at a local auto dealership in Dalton early Aug. 28 and found Fraze in the parking lot. Officers found that Fraze had some medication on her that was not in its original container. Frazier said police also discovered that the vehicle she occupied had been reported stolen.
Fraze was charged with
loitering, theft by receiving stolen property, drugs in wrong
container (possession of legend drugs) and possession of a
Schedule IV drug. She was being held in the Whitfield County
Jail pending a $10,000 bond.
Fraze also faces possible charges in Alcoa and Sweetwater in
connection with vehicle thefts on Aug. 26.
Phillip Thompson, County Road 296, Sweetwater, was at work in
Sweetwater when he noticed his vehicle was missing. Thompson
told Sweetwater Police Sgt. Kris King that he left his keys in
his 1996 Dodge 3500 extended cab truck. Dalton Police recovered
the truck on Aug. 28.
While on the scene making the report, Sweetwater Police Officer
Daniel Johnson discovered a turquoise green Ford Windstar parked
in the parking lot near where Thompson's truck had been.
Johnson learned the van had been stolen Aug. 26 from Alcoa and
the right passenger window had been shattered, but the keys were
still in the switch.
Kara Helton, Leann Lane, Walland, told Alcoa Police Officer
James Bowman that the van was stolen during a 90-minute period
while she was visiting her mother on East Lincoln Road in
Alcoa.¬ Helton said she had left her keys in the ignition.
Alcoa Police Detective Kristopher Sanders and Sweetwater Police
Captain Detective Bill Illingworth were still working on the
case Friday. Sources said more charges were pending in the case.