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A Lenoir City couple is facing drug charges after law enforcement conducted a search warrant on Rogers Circle.

Agents from the 9th Judicial District Drug Task Force, Loudon County Sheriff’s Office, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Lenoir City Police Department on Oct. 6 searched inside the residence of Patricia Ann Stinnett, 35, and Steve Allen Stinnett, 35, during an open narcotics investigation.

While searching, agents found a glass aquarium on the kitchen counter that had “several large hallucinogenic mushrooms” growing inside.

“Several bags of dried mushrooms were also located in the ottoman in the living room of the residence,” April Farmer, DTF agent, wrote in a report. “Agents also located numerous sealed glass jars with fertilizer and mushroom spores in the kitchen area of the residence. The total weight of the mushrooms was approximately 312 grams.”

A 10 mg Opana pill was also found in Patricia Stinnett’s purse.

“Agents have been conducting controlled purchases of Opana pills from the residence and Ms. Stinnett stated that she had purchased that pill for her husband’s pain,” Farmer wrote in the report. “Also located throughout the residence were several items used to aid in the production of the mushrooms including but not limited to more empty glass jars and fertilizer. Also found was a set of digital scales and a metal pipe used to smoke narcotics.”

The Stinnetts live at the residence with their 10-year-old child, according to the report.

Patricia Ann Stinnett was charged with manufacture, sell, delivery, resale of a Schedule I substance, manufacture, sell, delivery, resale of a Schedule II substance, maintaining a dwelling where drugs are sold and possession of drug paraphernalia and held on $47,000 bond.

Steven Allen Stinnett was charged with manufacture, sell, delivery, resale of a Schedule I substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and maintaining a dwelling where drugs are sold and held without bond.

Oct. 2

• Kristina Elizabeth Jones, 49, Philadelphia, was charged with theft of property and held on $1,000 bond.

• Steven Lee Mcabee, 37, Knoxville, was charged with violation of probation and held on $2,000 bond.

• Kinzie Renee Mcgrail, 27, Niota, was charged with failure to appear and released on $2,000 bond.

• William James Shubert, 26, Lenoir City, was charged with theft of property and theft and released on $3,000 bond.

• Donald Ray Starritt, 62, Loudon, was charged with domestic assault-misdemeanor and driving on a revoked/suspended license and held on $3,500 bond.

• Toby James Townson, 48, Lenoir City, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and released on $2,000 bond.

Oct. 3

• Dalton Glenn Blevins, 21, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and held on $30,000 bond.

• Anna Mari Croce, 21, Knoxville, was charged with two counts of simple possession/casual exchange and released on $4,000 bond. Witnessing a white Toyota traveling east on Highway 72 with a white light shining through the brake light, Loudon Police Officer Anthony Akins stopped the vehicle for violation of a light law. While speaking to Croce, Akins noticed an odor of what he believed to be marijuana. Croce told Akins there was nothing illegal in her car. During a search, Akins found a black bag that had a cigarette container with a plastic wrapper holding a clear rock-like substance believed to be methamphetamine weighing 0.1 grams. Also inside her vehicle was a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana weighing 0.1 grams.

• Jeannie Renee Franklin, 34, Athens, was charged with driving under the influence and held on $2,500 bond.

• Franklin Delano Jeffries, 43, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $2,000 bond.

• Bradley Dwayne Russell, 33, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and possession of drug paraphernalia and held on $31,000 bond.

Oct. 4

• Toby Large, 36, Kingston, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license, possession of drug paraphernalia and simple possession/casual exchange and released on $6,000 bond.

• Angel Renea Plemons, 25, Loudon, was charged with child neglect and held on $25,000 bond. Responding to the call after neighbors located a 4-year-old girl wandering on Corinth Church Road without supervision, LCSO Inv. Charlie Cosner located the mother, Plemons, unconscious on a couch inside the residence. Cosner noted “several” attempts were made to wake Plemons. A strong smell of alcohol emitted from Plemons, according to the report. Plemons admitted to drinking five shots of Fireball Whiskey prior to laying on the couch, according to the report.

• Bradley Tyler Russell, 18, Lenoir City, was charged with failure to appear and held on $10,000 bond.

• Christy Ann Whisenhunt, 36, Philadelphia, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and possession of drug paraphernalia and released on $6,000 bond.

Oct. 5

• Cedric Fenton Boruff, 47, Loudon, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and held on $5,000 bond.

• Jacob Dennis Chosie, 34, St. Augustine, Fla., was charged with burglary of a motor vehicle, theft $2,500 to $10,000 and theft $10,000 to $60,000 and held on $80,000 bond.

• Erica Nicole Dunlap, 32, Lenoir City, was charged with public intoxication and violation of probation and held without bond.

• Juan M. Ervin, 47, Kingston, was charged with assault and released on $2,000 bond.

• Ashley Nicole Mcalpin, 33, Philadelphia, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,000 bond.

• Kenneth Ray Morgan, 25, Madisonville, was charged with failure to appear-general sessions and released on $4,000 bond.

• Chad Norris, 37, Sweetwater, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and held without bond.

• Zakery Bryan Russell, 22, Loudon, was charged with violation of probation and released on $1,000 bond.

• Chaiden Allen Stevens, 18, Loudon, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and underage consumption and released on $4,000 bond.

Oct. 6

• Thomas Lance Brock, 35, Sweetwater, was charged with vandalism and released on $1,500 bond.

• Jeremiah William Downs, 40, Lenoir City, was charged with simple possession/casual exchange, contraband in a penal institution, theft of property and a juvenile attachment and held without bond.

• Lacy Diann Hicks, 29, Lenoir City, was charged with a Knox County warrant and released without bond.

• Shawn Patrick Miller, 31, Loudon, was charged with warrants out of Roane and Knox counties and released without bond.

• Richard David Byrd, 63, Lenoir City, was charged with public intoxication and released without bond.

• Jessie Dewayne Duncan, 28, Briceville, was charged with theft of property and held on $5,000 bond.

• Garry Wendell Godsey, 60, Rockwood, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and held on $3,000 bond.

• Sean Maleki Hughley, 27, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence and held without bond.

• Joel Hamilton Lynn, 31, Philadelphia, was charged with manufacture, delivery, sale, possession of a Schedule II substance and possession of drug paraphernalia and held without bond. Observing a 2002 Lexus fail to come to a complete halt at a stop sign at the corner of Nelson and McCrary streets in Philadelphia, Loudon County Sheriff’s Office Inv. Jamie Ketner made contact with the driver. Ketner noted he knew the driver, Timothy B Grisson, did not have a valid license. The passenger, Lynn, reached between the passenger seat and driver side door and was “nervous,” according to the report. “During the conversation with the occupants of the vehicle Mr. Lynn rolled down his window,” Ketner wrote in the report, adding another deputy arrived on scene shortly thereafter. Grissom was asked to step out of the vehicle, and Ketner was allowed to search of the vehicle. He noticed plastic that had a crystal-like substance believed to be methamphetamine, which after weighing totalled 1.8 grams. In the backseat Ketner found two sets of digital scales with residue on them and seven needles that no one claimed ownership. Grissom was warned about the stop sign and given a drug paraphernalia citation.

• John Allen Sentell, 40, Loudon, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and held without bond.

Oct. 7

• Heather Nicole Johnson, 23, Lenoir City, was charged with a juvenile attachment and domestic assault-misdemeanor and held on $1,650 bond.

• Neil Anthony Martin, 43, Sweetwater, was charged with theft of property and held on $2,000 bond.

• Jacob Austin Southall, 22, Oak Ridge, was charged with failure to appear and held without bond.

Oct. 8

• James N. Chestnut, 29, Loudon, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $1,500 bond.

• Sonny Douglas Downs, 32, Lenoir City, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,000 bond.

• Matthew Scott Kelley, 43, Knoxville, was charged with domestic assault-misdemeanor and held without bond.

• Sonya Marisa Massingale, 40, Farner, was charged with possession of a Schedule II substance and held without bond.

Oct. 9

• Theodore Bell, 42, Knoxville, was charged with violation of probation and held on $50,000 bond.

• Clayton Gene Jarrard, 37, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of order of protection and simple possession/casual exchange and held without bond.