From 9th Judicial District Attorney
District Attorney General Russell Johnson confirmed that
former Loudon City Council member,
Timothy
F. Brewster, was indicted by the Loudon County Grand Jury on Monday for
one count of harassment and one count of stalking involving a victim,
Loudon County Solid Waste Disposal Commission member Pat Hunter.
Arraignments for all persons indicted by the grand
jury, including Brewster, are scheduled for Monday at 9 am at the
temporary court location at Alma Place in downtown Loudon.
Previous Story from
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Former Loudon councilman
charged
Hugh G. Willett news-herald.net
Former Loudon City Councilman Timothy Floyd Brewster
was arrested Friday and charged in General Sessions
Court with stalking and harassment.
Brewster, 64, was elected to Loudon City Council in
2018. He resigned citing health reasons in August
2021.
He is husband of Kelly Littleton-Brewster, a Loudon
County commissioner who represents District 1 in
Loudon and is chairwoman of the Loudon County Solid
Waste Disposal Commission. He is charged with
stalking and harassment of Pat Hunter, also a member
of the LCSWDC.
Brewster did not respond to a request for comment.
According to the arrest report, Brewster is accused
of harassing Hunter and stalking her at her home and
county commission meetings.
Hunter
contacted Loudon County Sheriff’s Office at
10:40 p.m. June 1 and reported “Brewster had
called her and left a message indicating he was
in the driveway of her residence and she needed
to come outside and speak to him,” according to
the report.
Deputies
responded to the address but were unable to
locate Brewster at the residence or in the area.
Hunter
requested the incident be documented in a report
and told deputies she would follow up with a
detective with further evidence of additional
confrontations.
She
alleges the harassment began weeks earlier with
repeated phone calls and hang-ups at her home by
Brewster. She said Brewster called her 15 times
in one night.
At a
special called county commission meeting June 1,
Hunter said Brewster was looking in the windows
of the building during the meeting and making
gestures. Brewster left the message on her
voicemail saying he was in her driveway later
that same evening.
Hunter
said she contacted county officials and law
enforcement in the following days to ask that
they reach out to Brewster and tell him to stop
bothering her.
Hunter
said the harassment continued June 6 at the
county commission meeting at the Loudon County
Courthouse Annex. She said she was getting ready
to enter the meeting when Brewster, who was
driving a silver pickup truck slowly down the
street in front of the annex, yelled obscenities
at her.
She
said she requested Loudon Police Department
respond to the meeting. LPD escorted her part of
the way to her home after she left the meeting.
“This
continual contact with Mrs. Hunter has caused
her to feel threatened and fearful of bodily
harm,” according to the LCSO report.
Hunter
said she believes Brewster is trying to
intimidate her into changing her position on
a controversial contract with Republic
Services to manage Matlock Bend Landfill.
She has criticized the contract during
commission discussions and indicated she
will vote against the extension when it
comes before SWDC for final approval.
The
charge of harassment and stalking are both
misdemeanors. Brewster was booked June 10
into Loudon County Jail and released on
$2,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in
General Sessions Court on June 24.
According to Tennessee Code Annotated
39-17-308, “harassment” means conduct
directed toward a victim that includes, but
is not limited to, repeated or continuing
not consenting contact that would cause a
reasonable person to suffer emotional
distress and actually causes the victim to
suffer emotional distress.
“Stalking” is defined under TCA 39-17-315 as
a willful course of conduct involving
repeated or continuing harassment of another
individual that would cause a reasonable
person to feel terrorized, frightened,
intimidated, threatened, harassed or
molested, and that actually causes the
victim to feel terrorized, frightened,
intimidated, threatened, harassed or
molested.
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