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Trio arrested after alleged beating in barricaded home

Posted at 7:59 pm March 5, 2013
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An Oliver Springs man and two Clinton men charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment after an alleged beating in a barricaded home in Oliver Springs have court hearings Thursday.

The three were arrested after the Oliver Springs Police Department responded to a report of a person being held against their will and beaten in a Ridgeview Drive home at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23.

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Filed Under: Oliver Springs, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County General Sessions Court, barricaded home, beating, Charles Graham, criminal responsibility for the conduct of another, Derrick E. Mulkey, Donnie Junior Lecomte, especially aggravated kidnapping, especially aggravated robbery, false imprisonment, kidnapping, knife, Nate Nelson, Oliver Springs, Oliver Springs Police Department, OSPD, possession of drug paraphernalia, Ridgeview Drive, Timothy Adam Dopel, weapons violation

Powell man charged with attempted murder in brother’s shooting

Posted at 9:45 am February 21, 2013
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Jamie Lynn Lowe

Jamie Lynn Lowe

Note: This story was updated at 9:54 a.m.

A Powell man has been charged with attempted second-degree murder and aggravated assault in the shooting of his brother on Johnson Gap Road on Feb. 1, authorities said.

Jamie Lynn Lowe, 30, of Powell, was arrested Tuesday at a home on Mehaffey Road in Claxton on a fugitive from justice warrant for a parole violation in Michigan, the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department said in a Thursday morning press release. Warrants for the new charges were served at the Anderson County Detention Facility in Clinton on Wednesday.

Lowe’s brother, Jeffery Allen Lowe, 28, was flown to the University of Tennessee Medical Center with a potentially life-threatening wound after the Feb. 1 shooting at their mother’s home on Johnson Gap Road near Clinton, authorities said.

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Filed Under: Anderson County, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County Sheriff's Department, attempted second-degree murder, Jamie Lynn Lowe, Jeffery Allen Lowe, Johnson Gap Road

Teen accused of beating girlfriend’s dad, who was found unconscious

Posted at 6:01 pm February 11, 2013
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An Oak Ridge teenager is accused of repeatedly hitting his girlfriend’s father in the face early Saturday morning, and the man was lying unconscious in a Robertsville Road yard when officers arrived, authorities said.

The man had severe injuries to his face, and his facial bones were probably fractured, Oak Ridge Police Department Officer John Thomas said in affidavits filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court.

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Filed Under: Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County General Sessions Court, beating, Donnie J. Lecomte, father, girlfriend, John Thomas, Oak Ridge Police Department

Oliver Springs man accused of ramming car with wife, child

Posted at 5:45 pm February 11, 2013
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An Oliver Springs man has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault after he allegedly used his truck to ram a car containing his wife and her four-year-old daughter, authorities said.

Goman Harness, 47, and his wife had reportedly been arguing in Oliver Springs on Saturday before the wife drove away with her young daughter. While on her way home, the wife said, Harness allegedly rammed her car with his truck, causing her car to spin, according to arrest warrants filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court.

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Filed Under: Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, child, daughter, Frost Bottom Road, Goman Harness, Michael Swigert, Oak Ridge Police Department, Oliver Springs, ramming, wife

Court records: Husband admits strangling pregnant wife

Posted at 1:13 pm February 1, 2013
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A Briceville man who claimed to be experiencing withdrawal symptoms admitted strangling his pregnant wife during an argument on Tennessee Hollow Lane on Wednesday, allegedly making her unable to breathe at times and causing her to almost black out, authorities said.

The argument allegedly started at about 9:45 a.m. Wednesday when the woman “called in to work,” according to an affidavit filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court.

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Filed Under: Anderson County, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County General Sessions Court, Anderson County Sheriff's Department, Bradley Prewitt, Brandon McMahan, Briceville, strangling, Tennessee Hollow Lane

Woman accused of pulling knife on man, trying to run him over

Posted at 11:50 pm January 18, 2013
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An Oak Ridge woman charged with two counts of aggravated assault is accused of hitting a man in the head, pulling a knife on him, and then trying to run over him early Thursday morning, court records said.

Karol Ann Allred, 40, allegedly hit the man in the left side of the head during an argument on Lancaster Road at about 3:10 a.m. Thursday, according to affidavits filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court. Allred also allegedly pulled a knife on the man and got into her vehicle and tried to run over him as he left the home, the records said.

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Filed Under: Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County General Sessions Court, Daniel Freytag, Karol Ann Allred, Lancaster Road, Oak Ridge Police Department

Man accused of ‘head butting,’ choking girlfriend

Posted at 10:50 am December 18, 2012
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An Athens man is accused of “head butting” an Oak Ridge woman on Friday night, punching and kicking her, and choking her “to the point of unconsciousness,” authorities said.

Gerald D. Wells, 26, has been charged with aggravated assault (domestic), and he remained jailed Tuesday morning.

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Filed Under: Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County General Sessions Court, Gerald D. Wells, head butting, Oak Ridge Police Officer Benjamin Haines, Wilberforce Avenue

Report: Man evades arrest, drives on sidewalk, backs toward officer

Posted at 5:09 pm November 29, 2012
By John Huotari 3 Comments

An Oak Ridge man fleeing from undercover agents at Walgreens on Tuesday allegedly drove on the sidewalk and accelerated backward toward a police investigator, forcing the officer to run between two vehicles to avoid being hit, according to Anderson County court records.

The alleged driver, Frederick R. Black, 28, of West Pasadena Lane, has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault and one count of evading arrest. He remained jailed in the Anderson County Detention Facility on Thursday, and his bond has been set at $500,000.

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Filed Under: Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: 7th Judicial Crime Task Force of Anderson County, A. Marvell Moore, aggravated assault, Frederick R. Black, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge Police Department, Walgreens

Hillside Road man charged with assault with beer bottle

Posted at 6:34 pm October 16, 2012
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A Hillside Road couple has been charged with assault after an Oct. 8 dispute that allegedly ended with one man getting smashed over the head with a beer bottle and another man being hit with fists, Anderson County court records said.

Jose Marchant, 22, of Hillside Road, allegedly struck the first victim in the head with a 12-ounce Budweiser beer bottle, Oak Ridge Police Officer Marvell Moore said in affidavits filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court. The victim was cut and had to seek medical attention, Moore said.

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Filed Under: Police and Fire Tagged With: aggravated assault, assault, beer bottle, Hillside Road, Jessica M. Marchant, Jose Marchant, Marvell Moore

Man charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault after car chase

Posted at 3:45 pm October 4, 2012
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Note: This story was updated at 4:26 p.m.

A 39-year-old man has been charged with kidnapping and aggravated assault after he allegedly dragged his girlfriend from her bed and pulled her down the driveway at her west Oak Ridge home early Friday morning and fled from police into Knox County, authorities said.

The alleged kidnapping occurred after the woman told her boyfriend, Vinson Tyrone Floyd, 39, that their relationship was over, court records said.

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Filed Under: Police and Fire Tagged With: aggravated assault, car chase, kidnapping, Vinson Tyrone Floyd

Bradyville man charged with child abuse, assault in Oak Ridge

Posted at 3:19 pm October 3, 2012
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A 27-year-old Bradyville man has been charged with child abuse and aggravated assault after his girlfriend said he kicked and hit her six-year-old son in an Oak Ridge apartment and threatened her with a knife.

The woman said she found her son on the floor crying in the food department at the Oak Ridge Walmart early Saturday morning, according to Anderson County court records. She alleged that red marks she found on the back of her son’s neck were made by her boyfriend, Clayton K. Williams.

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Filed Under: Police and Fire Tagged With: aggravated assault, child abuse, Clayton K. Williams

Report: Man drives aggressively toward police, flees at speeds near 100 mph

Posted at 1:17 pm August 27, 2012
By John Huotari 1 Comment

Jerry Dale Allmon

Jerry Dale Allmon

An Oak Ridge man allegedly drove aggressively toward police officers at a BP gas station early Monday morning before fleeing west on Oak Ridge Turnpike in a chase that reached speeds of close to 100 mph, Anderson County court records said.

Jerry Dale Allmon, 59, allegedly ran several red lights as he fled, and he drove in the center of the road and in the middle of two traffic lanes, arrest warrants said. The Kingston Police Department apprehended him at the former K-25 site in west Oak Ridge, the warrants said.

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Filed Under: Police and Fire Tagged With: aggravated assault, chase, evading arrest, Jerry Dale Allmon, John Wilson, Kyle Scott, Matt Johnston, Oak Ridge Police, reckless driving

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