911 hangup leads to man

911 hangup leads to man's arrest

A Lenoir City man is facing multiple charges after law enforcement responded to a 911 hangup call Saturday on Cordova Lane.

Loudon County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Thomas Spradlin met a woman who answered the door crying and had a white rag on the left side of her face. Spradlin recognized there had been a physical altercation. Edward Le’Darrell Hale came down the stairs and spoke with Spradlin.

“I asked the offender what had happened between the two and he stated that he came home from work, then left, went to Bull Feathers and then came back home,” Spradlin wrote in a report. “When he arrived back home he went upstairs to see the victim. The offender stated that he thinks the victim, his girlfriend of 10 years, has been cheating on him with a female.”

An argument ensued. Hale noted the victim pushed him, and he admitted to hitting the woman in her face.

Spradlin then spoke with the victim who claimed Hale came home upset, accusing her of sleeping with a co-worker and leaving their child alone. Hale allegedly started hitting the bed while she tried to escape. At one point the victim tried calling 911, but Hale allegedly hit her and took the phone and smashed it. Spradlin noted he saw the broken phone.

“The victim stated that the offender then grabbed a gun and backed her into the closet,” Spradlin wrote in a report. “The victim stated that the offender then tried to give her the gun, and stated he was ready to go and for her to kill him. The victim stated that she was in the closet terrified for her life, and that she thought that he was going to kill her.”

The victim said Hale hit her again because she was calling the police and trying to leave, according to the report.

The woman pointed Spradlin to an open shoe box in the closet she said belonged to Hale. The shoe box contained a mason jar with 20 grams of a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana. Multiple boxes of small baggies, scales used to weigh the drug and a drug ledger were found.

Hale, 45, was charged with aggravated assault, false imprisonment, interfering with an emergency call and manufacture, sell, delivery or resale of a Schedule VI substance and released on $33,000 bond.

Feb. 11

• Joshua Garrett Bos, 28, Lenoir City, was charged with criminal littering and criminal trespass and held on $6,000 bond.

• Michael Henry Hanlon, Lenoir City, 41, was charged with criminal littering, criminal trespass and escape and held on $9,000 bond.

• John Bryant Swiney, 53, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of community corrections and held on $1,500 bond.

• Ashley Patrice Ward, Mascot, was charged with general sessions court capias and held on $8,000 bond.

Feb. 12

• Desiree Rita Baird, 36, Rockwood, was charged with failure to appear and held on $3,000 bond.

• Fernando Lara Gonzalez, 40, Lenoir City, was charged with domestic assault-misdemeanor and released on $2,500 bond.

Dispatched Feb. 9 to the 900 block of Browder Hollow Road for a physical domestic assault, Lenoir City Police Officer Cole Morgan met a woman and her daughter who said Gonzalez was drunk and that he was going to take her and the children to “a safe place so he could do a drug run for the cartel. When (the woman) started to question him he became upset yelling at her, slamming the door on her hand and hitting her with an open hand in the forehead before leaving,” Morgan wrote in a report. Both stated they feared for their safety and were afraid of him coming home. He was not found at the time. Fernando was located Feb. 12 in a Ford F-150 on Broadway Street and was taken into custody.

• Joseph Andrew Heape, 25, Harriman, was charged with violation of probation and held on $3,000 bond.

• Yolanda Rosas Lemus, 36, Loudon, was charged with domestic assault-misdemeanor and released on $1,000 bond.

• David Tyler Mills, 26, Lenoir City, was charged with first-degree murder, two counts of theft of property and especially aggravated burglary and held on $2.1 million bond.

• Justina Marie Miller, 22, Rockwood, was charged with theft under $1,000 and simple possession/casual exchange and held on $4,000 bond.

• Adam Hunter Shaw, 30, Tellico Plains, was charged with violation of probation and held on $2,000 bond.

• Ashley Anna Wilson, 28, Lenoir City, was charged with disorderly conduct and held on $1,000 bond.

Feb. 13

• Shelby Martin Baker, 33, Lenoir City, was charged with domestic assault-misdemeanor and held on $2,000 bond.

• Joshua Allen Ball, 25, Oak Ridge, was charged with domestic assault-misdemeanor and released on $1,000 bond.

• Delilah Teresa-Ros Caldwell, 29, Kingston, was charged with violation of probation and released on $2,000 bond.

• Keno Demer Jones, 27, Athens, was charged with general sessions court capias and released on $1,000 bond.

• Katrina Camille Lyles, 29, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and released on $2,000 bond.

• Edward Norman Olsen III, 26, Sweetwater, was charged with violation of probation and released on $1,000 bond.

Feb. 14

• Virgil Nathan Beck, 19, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and simple possession/casual exchange and released on $4,000 bond.

• Christina Deanne Cook, 41, Knoxville, was charged with manufacture, delivery, sale or possession of a Schedule II substance, simple possession/casual exchange and possession of drug paraphernalia and held on $22,000 bond.

• Sharon Deanne Cook, 61, Rockwood, was charged with simple possession/casual exchange and released on $1,000 bond.

• Joseph Wayne Cummings, 48, Andersonville, was charged with failure to appear and released on $4,000 bond.

• Daniel Lee Ernest, 34, Loudon, was charged with three counts of failure to appear and held without bond.

• Thomas Austin Wayne Finger, 23, Maryville, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $2,500 bond.

• Joseph Luke Goodman, 23, Philadelphia, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license and violation of probation and held on $3,000 bond.

• Jordan Lee Gray, 33, Sweetwater, was charged with violation of probation and released on $3,000 bond.

• Zachary Chase Hall, 26, Loudon, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $2,000 bond.

• Justin Van McClendon, 29, Lenoir City, was charged with theft of property, driving on a revoked/suspended license and simple possession/casual exchange and held on $24,000 bond.

• Fredrick Lamar Pipkin, 54, Macon, Ga., was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and held on $3,000 bond.

• Jeremiah Ray Rust, 37, Kingston, was charged with driving on a revoked/suspended license, financial responsibility law, driving an unregistered vehicle and reckless driving and released without bond.

• Cody Dwayne Whittaker, 23, Lenoir City, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and released on $2,000 bond.

Feb. 15

• Alexander Lee Parker, 18, Lenoir City, was charged with domestic assault-misdemeanor and released on $1,000 bond.

• Ronald Stephen Thacker, 54, Nashville, was charged with general sessions court capias and held on $30,000 bond.

• Regina Arlone Helton, 39, Lenoir City, was charged with misuse of the 911 emergency system and released on $1,000 bond.

• Justin Alexander Lowery, 44, Lenoir City, was charged with failure to appear and released on $3,000 bond.

• Kristopher Drake Pierce, 24, Loudon, was charged with escape, possession of drug paraphernalia and simple possession/casual exchange and held without bond.

• Chariety Rene Pryor, 32, Madisonville, was charged with evading arrest and held on $15,000 bond. Notified by dispatch that Vonore law enforcement was in pursuit of a stolen vehicle out of Blount County, LCSO Deputy Kevin Dailey saw the Ford F-350 at Highways 95 and 411. “At this time the vehicle continued straight through Loudon County on into Blount County on Highway 411 where the vehicle refused to stop after having my sirens and light activated,” Dailey wrote in a report. Pryor was eventually taken into custody in Blount County.

• Joseph Daniel Queener, 31, Lenoir City, was charged with vandalism and held on $1,000 bond.

• William Darrell Riden, 56, Greenback, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to appear and violation of probation and held on $4,000 bond.

• Destany Renae White, 23, Loudon, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and released on $1,500 bond.

• Rebecca J. Weaver, 60, Knoxville, was charged with driving under the influence and released without bond.

Feb. 16

• Coy Lee Best, 32, Friendsville, was charged with two counts of theft of property, two counts of criminal trespass and evading arrest and held without bond.

• James Calvin Henry, 61, Greenback, was charged with failure to appear and released on $1,000 bond.

• Katie Rebekah James, 28, Lenoir City, was charged with domestic assault-misdemeanor and released on $1,500 bond.

• William Joseph Mashaw, 44, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and failure to appear and held on $6,000 bond.

• Richie Elmore McCarter, 50, Castalian Springs, was charged with failure to appear and held without bond.

Feb. 17

• Michael Theotis Davis, 41, Loudon, was charged with a juvenile attachment and held on $698.26 bond.

• Tiffany Jo Harris, 38, Clinton, was charged with a juvenile attachment and released on $150 bond.

• Miranda Michelle Lankford, 33, Ten Mile, was charged with assisting other agency and held without bond.

• Earnest Wayne McDonald, 23, Knoxville, was charged with reckless endangerment and held on $20,000 bond.

• Ryan Kevin St Pierre, 44, Loudon, was charged with criminal trespass and released on $1,000 bond.

Feb. 18

• Stanley Matlock, 56, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of probation and held without bond.

• Charles Parker Morgan, 33, Loudon, was charged with driving under the influence, possession of legend drugs, violation of implied consent and open container and released on $2,500 bond. While directing traffic on Vonore Road for a prior incident that caused the road to be closed, LCSO Deputy Kenny Palmer met a driver after he pulled up and rolled his window down asking where he needed to go. While speaking with Morgan, Palmer wrote he could smell the strong odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from inside the vehicle. Morgan also had red glassy eyes. Morgan admitted to drinking two beers and was told to pull up behind Palmer’s vehicle. While asking for license, registration and insurance, Palmer noticed an opened can of beer in the center console, at which point Morgan was asked to exit. He performed poorly on field sobriety tasks and was placed under arrest. While inventorying the vehicle, Palmer located a pill bottle with seven orange pills identified as venlafaxine hydrochloride extended release and seven light yellow pills as the same type of pill with lower milligram. He did not have prescription.

• Justin Wayne Walls, 27, Kingston, was charged with driving an unregistered vehicle and driving on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,500 bond.

• Hayley M. Webb, 25, Alcoa, was charged with violation of probation and held on $4,000 bond.