Flames destroy a trailer on Pine Ridge Road in Marlow early Friday morning. (Photos by Tom Scott)
A fire early Friday morning destroyed a single-wide trailer on Pine Ridge Road in Marlow.
Departments in Oliver Springs, Blair, Medford, and Claxton assisted the Marlow Volunteer Fire Department in fighting the 12:20 a.m. blaze.
The Anderson County Emergency Medical Service and Sheriff’s Department also responded.
Greg Boertje-Obed
Megan Rice
Michael Walli
KNOXVILLE—Three anti-nuclear weapons activists accused of illegally crossing four fences to get into a high-security area at the Y-12 National Security Complex pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal misdemeanor trespassing charges.
An Oct. 9 trial date was set for the three defendants, and U.S. Magistrate Judge C. Clifford Shirley scheduled a Friday afternoon hearing to help determine whether they should continue to be detained.
The three defendants—Michael R. Walli, 63, of Washington, D.C.; Megan Rice, 82, of New York; and Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, of Duluth, Minn.—have been jailed at the Blount County Corrections Facility.
A veteran Anderson County Sheriff’s Department investigator resigned Friday, two days after Knoxville Police arrested him in the parking lot of a Kroger grocery store on Clinton Highway, according to WYSH Radio in Clinton.
Danny Bowie, 51, was arrested on July 25 and charged with public intoxication and possession of a handgun while intoxicated after Knoxville Police responded to a call about a possibly intoxicated person, WYSH said.
A Lake City man was killed Monday afternoon in a single-vehicle accident on Highway 116 in Briceville, according to WYSH Radio in Clinton.
John T. Roberts, 41, had been headed north on Highway 116 shortly before 4:30 p.m. Monday when his pickup left the roadway and overturned, WYSH said.
The annual National Night Out in Oak Ridge next week will feature crime and drug prevention programs, an anti-bullying seminar for children, and an adult self-defense class.
It also features free food, drinks, and music.
It starts at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7, at A.K. Bissell Park and Oak Ridge Civic Center.
A 13-year-old Knoxville boy was flown by air ambulance Sunday to the University of Tennessee Medical Center after a boat trailer reportedly ran over his right leg at Clark Center Park in Oak Ridge.
The boy had been standing on the right side of a trailer being towed by a pickup truck driven by Brian S. Graham of Knoxville, but the boy jumped off and fell before the boat trailer tires ran over his right leg, an Oak Ridge Police Department accident report said.
Three activists opposed to nuclear weapons pose with banners before their arrests on Saturday at the Y-12 National Security Complex. From left to right, the three are Michael R. Walli, Megan Rice, and Greg Boertje-Obed. (Submitted photo)
Three anti-nuclear weapons activists facing federal trespassing charges after sneaking into a high-security area at the Y-12 National Security Complex on Saturday have waived a detention hearing, meaning they will remain jailed for now, a court representative said Monday.
The three Plowshares activists are Michael R. Walli, 63, of Washington, D.C.; Megan Rice, 82, of New York; and Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, of Duluth, Minn. They have been jailed at the Blount County Corrections Facility.
The federal trespassing charges reportedly carry potential sentences of up to one year in prison and one year of supervised release as well as a maximum $100,000 fine. Supporters and officials have said other charges are possible.
For the second time in two weeks, an Oak Ridge resident has been charged with attempted second-degree murder and aggravated assault after an alleged stabbing.
The most recent incident occurred Friday when Treasure Sheitel Threat, 25, of Lynwood Lane, allegedly stabbed Kingston resident Stanley Wallace in the stomach in his car at the intersection of Robin Lane and Raleigh Road after an argument in Grove Center, court records said.
She is accused of approaching Wallace’s car and punching him in the head before she allegedly leaned in “and made several more punching motions toward the victim’s stomach,” arrest warrants said.
Three activists opposed to nuclear weapons pose with banners before their reported arrests on Saturday. From left to right, the three are Michael R. Walli, Megan Rice, and Greg Boertje-Obed. (Submitted photo)
Note: This story was last updated at 6:40 p.m. July 29.
Three Plowshares protesters who oppose nuclear weapons allegedly sneaked through four fences at the Y-12 National Security Complex before dawn Saturday and spray-painted messages and splashed human blood on the walls of a uranium storage building before they were detained by security guards, an activist said.
The three were identified by supporters as Michael R. Walli, 63, of Washington, D.C.; Megan Rice, 82, of New York; and Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, of Duluth, Minn.
They are now in the Blount County Corrections Facility, said Ellen Barfield, of Baltimore, Md., who said she is a longtime anti-war and anti-nuclear weapons activist and friend of the three detainees.
Federal spokesman Steven Wyatt wasn’t able to confirm the identity of those arrested, but he said they entered a high-security area on the west end of Y-12—the Protected Area—at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, spray-painted a building there, and splashed a substance that appeared to be like blood on a wall.
It could be the first security breach of that area, Wyatt said.
“I don’t ever recall this happening before at Y-12,” he said.
Three people were detained at the Y-12 National Security complex early this morning after they trespassed and defaced a building, possibly as a protest, a spokesman said.
The alleged incident occurred at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, federal spokesman Steven Wyatt said in a statement.
The three people, who have not been identified, will be transported to an off-site facility for arrest and processing under federal trespassing charges, Wyatt said, although he wasn’t sure where they would be taken.
A court order issued Tuesday called for a psychiatric evaluation of a man accused of stabbing another man in the back with a sword in Oak Ridge on July 13.
The evaluation at Ridgeview Psychiatric Hospital could determine whether Jeffrey John Smith, 30, of Park Meade Circle, is competent to stand trial and his “mental capacity at the time of the commission of his alleged offenses,” according to the order signed by General Sessions Court Judge Ronald Murch.
J. Scott Vowell
J. Scott Vowell was recently appointed chief of Fire Protection Operations at the Y-12 National Security Complex.
Vowell, who joined the Y-12 staff in 1993, has been assistant fire chief and fire captain, a press release said. He has also served as a fire inspector at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The Clinton native served on the Clinton City Emergency 911 Board from 1997 to 2001 and was a firefighter with the Clinton Fire Department for seven years.
