News Herald Arrest Report
Parents arrested for child neglect
A couple from Lenoir City was taken to Loudon County Jail on child abuse charges stemming from a domestic dispute early Sunday morning.
Dispatched to the site of an argument in the 6300 block of
Industrial Park Drive, Loudon County Sheriff's Office Deputy
Kevin Dailey arrived to find an unattended 2-year-old child
in a green Saturn Vue with the windows down and the keys in
the ignition, according to the arrest report.
The child's mother, Ashley Anna Wilson, 25, Lenoir City, and
father, Michael Paul Sonnier, 40, Lenoir City, had been
arguing inside the apartment and both appeared to be under
the influence, Dailey wrote in the report.
"They continued to stumble around the apartment while
the father stated he did not know what county he was in,
as well as stating the apartment was actually a hotel
room," Dailey wrote. "Mrs. Wilson stated she had driven
her daughter around the block to get her to go to
sleep."
The mother appeared confused, and the couple said they
were not under the influence of anything illegal and
agreed to take field sobriety tests, according to
police. The couple performed poorly on the sobriety
checks.
The child was turned over to the Tennessee Department of
Children's Services.
During the sobriety tests, a small baggie with half a
Xanax bar was found in Sonnier's shoe, Dailey wrote.
Sonnier said the medicine belonged to him, but he did
not have a prescription.
Sonnier was charged with child abuse or neglect and
simple possession and held without bond.
Wilson was charged with child abuse or neglect and
released on $5,000 bond.
June 27
• Aaron Scott Bolt, 41, Loudon, was charged with driving
on a revoked/suspended license and released on $1,000
bond.
• Patricia Ann Chapman, 34, Greenback, was charged with
public intoxication and released without bond.
• David William Denny II, 57, Dalton, Ga., was charged
with identity theft and held on $45,000 bond. Spotting a
blue Dodge Ram leave its lane of travel and nearly hit
his patrol car along Interstate 75 near mile marker 76,
Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Robert Woody stopped
the truck and gave a ticket to the driver, Kenneth
Smith, and a warning to the passenger, Denny, according
to the arrest report. As the truck was driving off,
Woody noticed a stop lamp violation, and he also learned
that Denny and Smith were on federal probation and were
prohibited from being in contact with each other,
according to police. Woody then stopped the truck a
second time and conducted a search, locating multiple
credit and debit cards on Denny and Smith and another
card in the console, which belonged to a woman from
Georgia. "Upon making contact with this individual she
advised she had poor credit and did not have a bank
account or a credit card," Woody wrote. "Both suspects
were exercising control over the victim's personal
information through the use of this credit card." An
official with the federal probation office told Woody
that Denny was banned from having any credit cards,
which was a violation of his probation.
• Kenneth Author Smith Jr., 49, Cleveland, was charged
with identity theft and released on $30,000 bond.
• Elijah Justice Monroe, 18, Maryville, was charged with
failure to appear and released without bond.
• Joshua Vance Morgan, 24, Knoxville, was charged with
domestic violence and false imprisonment and released on
$8,000 bond.
June 28
• Emily Nicole Bethancourt, 21, Knoxville, was charged
with violation of probation and criminal impersonation
and held on $13,000 bond.
• Aaron Michael Cusick, 30, Lenoir City, was charged
with violation of probation and held without bond.
• Dylan Ray Daggett, 18, Lenoir City, was charged with
domestic assault and vandalism and released on $2,000
bond. Responding to a call of a domestic dispute in the
200 block of West 5th Avenue, police learned that
Daggett had gotten into an altercation with an older
man, who had a bruise and swelling on his left cheek and
dried blood on his ear, according to the arrest report.
A man and woman told police that Daggett kicked in the
front door of the home earlier in the day after being
locked out. When the man came home, he told Daggett that
he would have to pay for the damages, and a dispute
ensued, in which Daggett pushed the man onto the floor,
according to the report. As Daggett's mother attempted
to separate the two, Daggett slipped past her and hit
the man in the face, according to police. The scuffle
continued, and the two men were separated before police
arrived. Daggett was found to be the primary aggressor,
according to the arrest report.
• Shellie Ann Helton, 27, Lenoir City, was charged with
domestic assault and vandalism and held on $2,000 bond.
Responding to a call of a disturbance in the 500 block
of Duggan Road, LCSO Deputy Lance Anderson spoke with
Helton, who said she came into a home that did not
belong to her and damaged multiple items. A woman told
deputies that she and her husband were not at the
residence when the vandalism took place, Anderson wrote,
noting that the woman said Helton was going to "blow up
their house and kill them" during a phone call,
according to the report. The woman told police that she
was afraid and did not want to write up a statement on
the incident, Anderson wrote.
• Brian Keith Jones, 45, Philadelphia, was charged with
driving on a revoked/suspended license and held on
$1,000 bond.
• Ashley Nicole Plemons, 27, Sweetwater, was charged
with driving under the influence and simple
possession/casual exchange and released on $6,000 bond.
Dispatched to a wreck on Interstate 75, THP Trooper Paul
Clendenen spoke with the driver, Plemons, who said she
had taken Xanax and Suboxone earlier in the day,
according to the arrest report. Plemons performed poorly
on field sobriety tests. "I have a witness statement
stating she had come out of her lane of travel several
times before drifting off the roadway," Clendenen wrote
in the report. Police found half a Xanax pill in a small
box in Plemons' purse, according to the report. Plemons
did not have a prescription bottle or documentation for
the medicine, Clendenen wrote.
• Joshua David Tillman, 37, Athens, was charged with
failure to appear and released on $2,000 bond.
June 29
• Douglas W. Hutchison, 37, Madisonville, was charged
with violation of probation and released on $50,000
bond.
• Danny W. Mills, 50, Lenoir City, was charged with two
counts of contempt of court and held on $2,638.07 bond.
• Lawrence Allen Powell, 38, Lenoir City, was charged
with driving under the influence, evading arrest and two
counts of cite-in and released on $5,000 bond.
Responding to a call of an intoxicated driver on Old
Highway 95, officers attempted to get a 1993 Nissan to
stop, but the driver continued down the roadway and
crossed the center line multiple times, according to the
arrest report. The car was eventually stopped at A and B
streets in Lenoir City. Police spoke with the driver,
Powell, who displayed signs of intoxication. Officers
found an empty vodka bottle in the front floorboard of
the car, and another bottle was found in a backpack in
the front seat. Powell performed poorly on field
sobriety tests and refused a blood draw.
• Richard Lee Romano, 28, Lenoir City, was charged with
domestic assault-felony and released on $5,000 bond.
Dispatched to a domestic dispute at a gas station on
Highway 321, Lenoir City Police Sgt. Jeremy Dishner
spoke with a woman, who said Romano had assaulted her at
his mother's house on 3rd Avenue. The woman told police
that the couple got into a verbal argument after leaving
a restaurant in Lenoir City. The woman said Romano was
intoxicated and was "being belligerent while eating,"
Dishner wrote. When the couple got to the home, Romano
hit the woman in the head and face, according to the
arrest report. The woman had a swollen lip, a broken
nose and a "large hematomia" on the left side of her
face, according to Dishner. Romano was determined to be
the primary aggressor.
• Tim Gerald Shope, 49, Sweetwater, was charged with
failure to appear and held on $8,000 bond.
• Perry Darrell West, 41, Tellico Plains, was charged
with capias for failure to appear and held on $2,000
bond.
• Claiborne Clay White, 56, Lenoir City, was charged
with contempt of court and held on $600 bond.
• Lindsay White, 31, Knoxville, was charged with
contempt of court and held on $150 bond.
June 30
• Charles Robert Lowry, 36, Sweetwater, was charged with
failure to appear and released on $2,000 bond.
• Belstsasar Cruz Martinez, 28, Knoxville, was charged
with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released
on $2,000 bond.
• Dawn Marie Powell, 38, Lenoir City, was charged with
failure to appear and held without bond.
• Ricky Glenn Powell, 40, Lenoir City, was charged with
violation of probation and held without bond.
• Corey Ozell Spoon, 23, Lenoir City, was charged with
theft of property and released on $2,500 bond. A woman
reported June 19 that multiple items had been taken from
her property in the previous two weeks, including a
Dewalt drill set, a saw, a Troy-Bilt wood splitter and a
Makita chain saw, all of which were valued at $1,200,
according to the arrest report. After an investigation,
police determined that Spoon, who was a resident at the
home, had taken the items to a various pawnshops in the
area and sold them for cash. Spoon admitted to taking
the items and has since returned everything except the
chain saw, according to police.
July 1
• Kendriah Jane Glenn, 28, Sweetwater, was charged with
driving under the influence and possession of drug
paraphernalia and held on $4,500 bond.
• Rosemary Lynn Henderson, 25, Vonore, was charged with
driving on a revoked/suspended license and held on
$3,000 bond.
• Adam Wallace Irwin, 23, Greenback, was charged with
manufacture/sell/possession of a controlled substance,
possession of drug paraphernalia and simple
possession/casual exchange and held on $9,500 bond.
• Rodney Gerald Jones, 59, Section, Ala., was charged
with possession of drug paraphernalia, resisting arrest
and simple possession/casual exchange and held on
$12,000 bond.
• Jessica Sue Justice, 27, Knoxville, was charged with
failure to appear-general sessions and released on
$4,000 bond.
• Daphne Noel Sutton, 31, Knoxville, was charged with
driving under the influence by consent and held on
$2,000 bond.
• Christy Ann Whisenhunt, 34, Loudon, was charged with
failure to appear-municipal court and failure to
appear-general sessions and held on $4,000 bond.
• Latonda Shaneen Hughes, 35, Knoxville, was charged
with criminal negligence homicide and held without bond.
• Melody Renee Idol, 23, Knoxville, was charged with
violation of probation, manufacture/sell/delivery/resale
of a Schedule II substance, driving on a suspended
license and possession of drug paraphernalia and held on
$2,000 bond. Speaking to a woman, Idol, about two
outstanding warrants, an officer asked if she had
anything illegal in her possession, and Idol indicated
that she did, according to the arrest report. Idol
retrieved three small Ziploc bags containing a crystal
substance that field tested positive for methamphetamine
from her bra, according to the report. Each bag weighed
about 0.5 grams. Idol told police she was selling the
drugs for someone else, according to the report.
• Michael Dennis Isbill, 42, Lenoir City, was charged
with driving under the influence and violation of
implied consent and released on $1,500 bond.
• Christopher Dewayn Johnson, 23, Loudon, was charged
with vandalism over $1,000 and released on $3,000 bond.
• Tamara Charleigh Richesin, 25, Sweetwater, was charged
with eight counts of criminal simulation and held on
$7,500 bond.
• Jason Lynn Roberts, 28, Loudon, was charged with
violation of community corrections and held without
bond.
• Hilerio Saucedo, 46, Lenoir City, was charged with
driving under the influence and held without bond.
July 2
• Stephanie Mei Mei Chu, 28, Blaine, was charged with
two counts of manufacture/sell/delivery/resale of a
Schedule II substance, manufacture/sell/delivery/resale
of a Schedule VI substance and possession of drug
paraphernalia and released on $82,000 bond. Spotting a
driver, Chu, throw an item later identified as a
marijuana joint out of her vehicle along City Park
Drive, police conducted a search and found a large
amount of drugs and other items in the car, according to
the arrest report. During the search, officers recovered
a full Mason jar of marijuana, along with three Ziploc
bags, 1 vacuum seal bag and a green container, all
holding marijuana. Police also located four separate
bags of cocaine, one baggie containing five Adderall
capsules, a glass pipe with marijuana residue and a
digital scale. The marijuana weighed about 111.50 grams,
while the cocaine weighed 4 grams.
• Stephan Shane Coker, 40, Loudon, was charged with
possession of a Schedule II substance and driving
without a valid license and held without bond.
• Christopher Michael Nicely, 32, Knoxville, was charged
with two counts of child support and released on $280
bond.
• Richard Allen Penton, 51, Lenoir City, was charged
with stalking and released on $1,500 bond.
July 3
• Jason Lane Aldridge, 43, Loudon, was charged with
failure to appear and held without bond.
• Michael James John Amble, 52, Lenoir City, was charged
with driving on a revoked/suspended license and released
on $1,000 bond.
• Stephen Shane Bourgault, 45, Lenoir City, was charged
with driving under the influence, violation of implied
consent, driving without a valid license and open
container and released on $4,000 bond.
• Travis Scott Brown, 32, Lenoir City, was charged with
boating under the influence and released without bond.
• Kristian Nicole Hatcher, 30, Lenoir City, was charged
with two counts of domestic assault,
manufacture/sell/delivery of a Schedule II substance and
failure to appear and held on $37,000 bond.
• Christopher Allen Johnson, 36, Lenoir City, was
charged with violation of parole on burglary and held
without bond.
• Tara Nicole Keller, 29, Maryville, was charged with
criminal impersonation, theft under $500 and possession
of drug paraphernalia and held on $6,000 bond.
• Andrew Emil Kotronias, 22, Lenoir City, was charged
with failure to appear-general sessions and held without
bond.
• Johnny Ray Lee Jr., 29, Philadelphia, was charged with
driving on a revoked/suspended license and held without
bond.
• Adam Wayne Varner, 34, Lenoir City, was charged with
driving under the influence and violation of implied
consent and held without bond.
• James Dee Webb, 31, Townsend, was charged with theft
under $500 and held on $2,000 bond.
July 4
• Barbara Rachel Abston, 21, Harriman, was charged with
theft under $500 and released on $2,000 bond.
• John Henry Bowen, 33, Friendsville, was charged with
domestic assault and held without bond.
• James Martin Kennedy, 33, Lenoir City, was charged
with violation of probation and held without bond.
• Jonathan Chester Mather, 38, Knoxville, was charged
with reckless endangerment and released on $10,000 bond.
• Christopher Adam Russell, 30, Lenoir City, was charged
with failure to appear-municipal court and released
without bond.
• Shelby Marie Wyman, 26, Maryville, was charged with
fugitive from justice, possession of drug paraphernalia
and two counts of simple possession/casual exchange and
held without bond.
July 5
• Phillip Lawrence Jenkins, 32, Lenoir City, was charged
with violation of community corrections and held without
bond.
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