News Herald Arrest Report

Bingham case heads to grand jury
 
Russell Johnson, 9th judicial district attorney general, declined comment other than to say the case involving “multiple counts” will be heard Aug. 12 by a grand jury. Alyson Kennedy is handling the case for Johnson’s office, while Bingham is represented by Lenoir City Attorney Robert Hinton.
 
A report from Loudon County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Jason Smith at the time notes the boy met Bingham at church. The boy claimed the two had sex at her residence.
 
“(The boy) reported that he had met Courtney at church and they had formed a relationship in the past few months,” Smith wrote in his report.
 
The teen noted he had multiple pornographic images from Bingham on his phone that were sent from her. Most appeared to have been taken by Bingham, according to Smith’s report.
 
Hinton could not be reached for comment by News-Herald presstime.

Loudon woman caught with drugs in jail

A Loudon woman is facing multiple charges after law enforcement responded to a reckless driver call and later found drugs on her at Loudon County Jail.
 
Lenoir City Police Officer Caleb Green was dispatched Saturday to Lenoir City High School in reference to a reckless driver on Harrison Road. Green located the vehicle driving on U.S. Highway 321 near Town Creek Boulevard, and he observed the vehicle swerve several times.
 
Green conducted a traffic stop and talked with the driver, Catherine Jeanette Jenkins, 43. Green said Jenkins was “very nervous, talkative and could not remain on topic.” He requested Jenkins perform standard field sobriety and Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement testing, to which she agreed.
 
Jenkins performed poorly, and Green took Jenkins into custody. Jenkins told Green she had a small amount of marijuana in her bra, which was recovered and weighed 0.8 grams. After a search of the vehicle, Green recovered “numerous syringes, small clear plastic baggies, digital scales, two pipes with a white cloudy residue believed to be used for inhaling methamphetamine, two glass bowls with marijuana residue and small clear plastic baggies with a white crystal-like residue believe to be methamphetamine.” Jenkins was transported to the Loudon County Jail.
 
Corrections officers later received information that an inmate was possibly concealing drugs in the jail. When officers entered the cell where drugs were suspected, LCSO Deputy Brad McCall saw Jenkins “throw several baggies on the floor where Jenkins stated, ‘That’s not mine’.” The suspected narcotics were recovered from the floor and Jenkins was removed from the cell and further searched. Two more baggies of suspected narcotics were found on Jenkins during the search.
 
LCSO Task Force Agent Marty Stanley responded to the jail, where he noticed seven baggies and one piece of notebook paper containing a crystalline substance believed to be methamphetamine.
 
“The total weight of the baggies was 6.7 grams and they tested positive for methamphetamine,” Stanley wrote in a report. Another baggy contained a green plant material believed to be marijuana that weighed 2.8 grams.
 
Jenkins was charged with driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia, simple possession/casual exchange and contraband in a penal institution and held on $18,000 bond.

July 16

• Clayton Gene Jarrard, 38, Loudon, was charged with criminal trespass and held on $1,000 bond.

July 17

• Cathy Jansen Stokes, 53, Lenoir City, was charged with theft of property over $1,000 and released on $10,000 bond.

July 18

• Casandra Danielle Baker, 23, Luttrell, was charged with aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery and theft of property and held without bond.
 
• Collin Payce Bennett, 20, Lenoir City, was charged with failure to appear, possession of a Schedule IV substance, two counts of simple possession/casual exchange, possession of a handgun as a convicted felon and violation of probation and held on $76,000 bond.
 
• Ashley Rose Davis, 26, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence, vandalism and damage over $1,000 and released on $7,500 bond. LCPD Sgt. Jeremy Dishner was dispatched to a domestic disturbance. Before arrival, dispatch advised that Davis had driven away in a black Land Rover. Dishner talked with the victim, who said Davis rammed into his 2003 Mazda with her vehicle and left the scene. Dishner observed $2,000 in damages to the driver side of the vehicle that stretched from the front to rear bumper. Davis was located by LCPD Lt. Mike Tinnel on Highway 321 near a convenience store. Dishner spoke to Davis and smelled a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage. She was unsteady on her feet, had slurred speech and admitted to drinking earlier while at the movies. “Ms. Davis refused to complete Standard Field Sobriety Tests and stated, ‘Just take me to jail’,” Dishner wrote in his report. Davis did consent to a breath sample test to determine her blood alcohol level, which was .135g/210L.
 
• David Gene Frye, 39, Philadelphia, was charged with driving on revoked/suspended license and held on $2,000 bond.
 
• Jacob S. Madison, 33, Maryville, was charged with driving under the influence and held on $1,500 bond.

July 19

• Robert Lane Carter, 24, Flint, Mich., was charged with manufacture, sell, delivery or resale of a Schedule I substance and held on $3,000 bond.
 
• Diallo Dekou Peacock, 24, Flint, Mich., was charged with manufacture, sell, delivery or resale of a Schedule I substance and held without bond.
 
• Christopher Michael Bertram, 31, Kingston, was charged with simple possession of a Schedule II substance, possession of a Schedule II substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, violation of probation, failure to pay court costs and failure to pay suspension fees and held on $6,000 bond.
 
• Samantha Gail Grubb, 36, Harlam, Ga., was charged with theft under $1,000 and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• Jarrod Shane Hunt, 38, Tellico, was charged with criminal trespass, theft under $1,000 and resisting arrest and held without bond. Lenoir City Poilce Officer Andrew Lee was dispatched to a retail store off Highway 321 in reference to a male shoplifter. Lee was in the area and noticed an associate attempting to stop the shoplifter. Lee turned on his patrol lights and exited the car to stop the man, but he fled on foot. Lee initiated a foot pursuit and told Hunt to stop fleeing several times. Hunt then got into his vehicle and put it in reverse. Lee and Lenoir City Police Officer Carlos Espinoza were able to get Hunt out of his vehicle. The store associate told Lee they watched Hunt take items from the store and take off the UPC stickers, and then put stickers from items of lesser value on the merchandise and paid for those items at self-checkout. “The offender attempted to deprive the store and its owners of $74.91,” Lee wrote in his report. During the investigation, it was determined Hunt signed a notice of restriction from all of the store properties for life on Sept. 13, 2016.
 
• Christopher Charles Sunstein, 35, Lenoir City, was charged with public intoxication and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• Francisco Javier Valdez, 30, Rockwood, was charged with violation of probation and released on $2,000 bond.
 
• Tanner Earl Wilkerson, 26, Lenoir City, was charged with violation of community corrections and held without bond.

July 20

• Calvin Maurice Bradley, 34, Knoxville, was charged with a juvenile attachment and released on $100 bond.
 
• Candice Marie Chitwood, 31, Knoxville, was charged with driving under the influence and released on $1,000 bond.
 
• Susano Davila-Esparza, 33, Lenoir City was charged with driving without a valid license and failure to stop at a stop sign and held on $1,000 bond.

July 21

• Dannie Laray Jenkins, 51, Sweetwater, was charged with a domestic assault-misdemeanor and held without bond. LCSO Deputy T.J. Scarbrough was dispatched to Loudon Police Department for a domestic disturbance. On arrival, Scarbrough spoke with the victim, who said she went with Jenkins to pick up children from school. On the way home, the victim said Jenkins had “grabbed her purse, and she jerked it away, and he began to hit her with this fist in the mouth and head area” after Jenkins and the victim engaged in an argument about money, according to Scarbrough’s report. The “victim also advised that (Jenkins) made her do sexual favors in order for her to visit her children. She thinks that’s why he was so angry because she wouldn’t do them,” Scarbrough wrote in a report. The victim said that once she got out of the vehicle, Jenkins left the area. Scarbrough noticed the victim was bleeding from her mouth and had dry blood on her face. Jenkins was determined as the primary aggressor and was charged with domestic assault.
 
• Kelly Robert Lambert, 49, Lenoir City, was charged with driving under the influence and driving on a revoked/suspended license and held on $4,000 bond.
 
• Jessica Ann Smith, 35, Loudon, was charged with manufacture, delivery, sell or possession of a Schedule II substance, criminal trespass and simple possession/casual exchange and released on $12,000 bond.
 
• Sarah Malia Snyder, 22, Oliver Springs, was charged with public intoxication, drug paraphernalia, simple possession of a Schedule VI substance and possession without prescription and released on $1,000 bond.

July 22

• James Adam Sanchez, 44, Lenoir City, was charged with three counts of burglary of a motor vehicle and two counts of theft of property and held without bond.

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