After police standoff, woman charged with going armed while intoxicated

Note: This story was updated at 1:40 p.m.

The 62-year-old woman arrested after a four-hour police standoff on Jellico Lane on Monday morning has been charged with possession of a handgun while intoxicated.

Patsy Lee Oliver, of 123 Jellico Lane, had allegedly approached a neighbor carrying a “small frame small caliber handgun” on Monday morning, according to an affidavit filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court. The victim and a witness who lives at the same address as the victim said Oliver appeared to be under the influence of an intoxicant.

The victim had a cell phone video of Oliver standing at the end of Jellico Lane concealing something behind her back that appeared to be a small black handgun, Oak Ridge Police Department Officer John Thomas said in the affidavit.

“Also in the video, defendant’s actions are as that of an intoxicated person,” Thomas said.

ORPD officers responded to the reported disturbance at about 6:48 a.m. Monday. They eventually made contact with Oliver on her porch and “observed that her speech was slurred and slow,” Thomas said in the affidavit. “Her demeanor was at times erratic, and she was slow and shuffling in her movements.”

Thomas said she smelled like alcohol. Officers recovered a .25-caliber black handgun with seven rounds in the magazine from her porch, the affidavit said.

Oliver was taken into custody at about 10:41 a.m. Monday She was taken to the hospital for treatment of an unrelated laceration and booked into the Anderson County Detention Facility at 6:40 p.m. Monday. She was released a few hours later at 9:10 p.m. Her bond on the misdemeanor charge has been set at $5,000.

More information will be added as it becomes available.

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