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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