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For members: Mason indicted on attempted murder, assault charges

Posted at 2:16 pm January 29, 2021
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Charles Mason Preliminary Hearing July 25 2019

An Anderson County man with two homicide convictions and a 28-year prison sentence for federal drug and gun convictions has been charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault, among other charges, after he allegedly tried to shoot a deputy in April 2019.

Charles Edward Mason, 53, was indicted on the one count of attempted first-degree murder, five counts of aggravated assault, and other charges in November. The other charges are two counts of interfering with a 911 call and one count of resisting arrest. Mason pleaded not guilty during an arraignment in Anderson County Circuit Court in Clinton on Thursday.

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Charles Mason Preliminary Hearing July 25 2019

An Anderson County man with two homicide convictions and a 28-year prison sentence for federal drug and gun convictions has been charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault, among other charges, after he allegedly tried to shoot a deputy in April 2019.

Charles Edward Mason, 53, was indicted on the one count of attempted first-degree murder, five counts of aggravated assault, and other charges in November. The other charges are two counts of interfering with a 911 call and one count of resisting arrest. Mason pleaded not guilty during an arraignment in Anderson County Circuit Court in Clinton on Thursday.

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Filed Under: Anderson County, Anderson County, Courts, Courts, Front Page News, Police and Fire, Premium Content, Slider, United States Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County Circuit Court, Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, attempted first-degree murder, attempted murder, Charles Edward Mason, Dave Clark, indictment, Matthew McGhee, resisting arrest, Thomas Phillips, U.S. District Court

Man allegedly held woman hostage with hammer

Posted at 8:20 am September 12, 2019
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Rickey Moore
Rickey Moore

A 44-year-old man allegedly held a woman hostage with a hammer and reportedly charged at fugitive recovery agents in Powell on Wednesday, the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said.

There were two Anderson County warrants for Rickey Moore, including a failure to appear, and bail bondsman fugitive recovery agents reported he was holding a woman hostage with a hammer inside a home on Bison Court at about 3:42 p.m. Wednesday, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Moore refused to surrender to the bail agents and reportedly charged at them with a hammer, the Sheriff’s Office said.

“That is when the agents called our office,” said Tyler Mayes, director of administrative services for the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Anderson County, Front Page News, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, domestic assault, fugitive recovery, resisting arrest, Rickey Moore, Tyler Mayes

(For members) Five ORPD officers injured in fight with defendant

Posted at 3:46 pm January 10, 2019
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Five Oak Ridge Police Department officers were injured in a fight with a defendant on Saturday, a man was held against his will by the defendant, and officers used a Taser on the defendant more than once, police said.

The 39-year-old defendant is now charged with five counts of aggravated assault on an officer and aggravated kidnapping, among other charges.

It’s not the first time the man has been accused of assaulting a police officer. In September, he pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer in a previous case.

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Filed Under: Anderson County, Courts, Front Page News, Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Premium Content, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault on an officer, aggravated kidnapping, Anderson County Criminal Court, Anderson County Detention Facility, Anderson County General Sessions Court, assault on a police officer, disorderly conduct, evading arrest, manufacturing delivering selling or possessing a controlled substance, Oak Ridge Police Department, ORPD, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of methamphetamine for resale, resisting arrest, Sherrill Selby, Thurman B. Bates

Warrants: Anderson County man allegedly carjacked two vehicles in Clinton, tried to steal third

Posted at 11:34 am April 4, 2017
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Justin Wade Welch

Justin Wade Welch

 

An Anderson County man is facing 13 charges that include carjacking and robbery after allegedly taking two cars by force and trying to take another in Clinton on Thursday, and then fleeing from officers and resisting arrest, according to arrest warrants.

Justin Wade Welch, 30, remained jailed in the Anderson County Detention Facility in Clinton on Tuesday morning. His bond has been set at $500,000.

Welch has been charged with two counts of carjacking and one count of attempted carjacking. He’s also been charged with three counts of robbery and two counts of attempted robbery.

The Clinton Police Department also charged him with two counts of vehicular assault.

And the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department charged him with evading arrest, resisting arrest, and driving on a suspended license.

Arrest warrants filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court in Clinton said Welch allegedly carjacked one vehicle at Clinton Towers on North Charles G. Seivers Boulevard in downtown Clinton, tried to carjack a second vehicle several blocks south at Food City on South Charles G. Seivers Boulevard, and carjacked a third vehicle on Highland Drive next to Food City. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Anderson County, Clinton, Front Page News, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County Detention Facility, Anderson County General Sessions Court, Anderson County Sheriff's Department, attempted carjacking, attempted robbery, carjacking, Charles Relford, Clinton Police Department, evading arrest, Justin Wade Welch, resisting arrest, robbery, Scott Gregory, vehicular assault

Norris man allegedly fights officers, grabs lieutenant’s gun; now faces charges

Posted at 2:15 pm February 26, 2016
By John Huotari 1 Comment

Donald-Berry

Donald Berry

NORRIS—A Norris man who allegedly fought public safety officers, resisted arrest, and tried to grab a lieutenant’s gun from its holster on Thursday is facing charges of aggravated assault and resisting arrest, authorities said.

Donald Howard Berry Jr., 25, has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault and two count of resisting arrest, according to court records.

The Norris Department of Public Safety responded to a reported disturbance on Oak Road on Thursday afternoon. Berry’s stepsister told police that he was upstairs in a bedroom behaving erratically and possibly trying to harm himself, arrest warrants said.

Norris Officer Rick Roach and Lieutenant Carl White entered the home and made contact with Berry, the warrants said. But after the bedroom door was opened, Berry charged White and grabbed him around the waist, according to the warrants.

Roach tried to restrain Berry, but he resisted the officer and the lieutenant, the warrants said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Anderson County, Front Page News, Norris, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County Sheriff's Department, Carl White, Donald Howard Berry Jr., Norris Department of Public Safety, resisting arrest, Rick Roach

ORPD arrests home intruder

Posted at 6:19 pm April 22, 2015
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Thurman B. Bates

Thurman B. Bates

The Oak Ridge Police Department on Tuesday arrested a man who entered the home of his ex-girlfriend without permission and threatened to assault her, authorities said.

Officers responded to the home on Inn Lane at about 11:25 p.m. Tuesday. The man who allegedly entered without permission was later identified as Thurman Bates, 36, of Oak Ridge, a press release said.

Officers said the victim managed to escape the residence by crawling out a window and fleeing to a neighbor’s home to call the police. When they arrived, officers entered the victim’s residence in search of Bates, who had barricaded himself behind the door in the residence, the release said. Officers forced entry into the room and found Bates hiding in a closet.

The release said Bates was taken into custody with the assistance of a police canine after he briefly resisted arrest. Bates was arrested and transported to the Anderson County Detention Facility, where he was charged with aggravated burglary, domestic assault, and resisting arrest.

Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated burglary, Anderson County Detention Facility, domestic assault, Inn Lane, Oak Ridge Police Department, ORPD, resisting arrest, Thurman Bates

Five arrested after shots fired into Claxton home, marijuana found

Posted at 9:26 pm November 26, 2014
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Kevin Scott Garner

Kevin Scott Garner

Five people were arrested early Sunday morning after deputies responded to a report of shots fired into an occupied home in Claxton, authorities said. They said deputies were helped by a series of anonymous 911 calls from a Powell man who was found with the Knoxville man alleged to have been the shooter.

Anderson County Sheriff Paul White said dispatchers began receiving anonymous 911 calls from a cell phone around 5 a.m. Sunday, reporting a shooting into a residence at 120 East Circle. However, the calls were not coming from the actual residence. Some 30 calls were made over the next several minutes, White said.

Deputies responded to the East Circle home and, when they arrived, spoke with a person on the front porch who initially gave a false name and false information about what happened. Another person was found hiding in the back yard. A third person was inside the residence.

Bullet holes were found in the front of the house. No one was injured. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Anderson County, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: 911 calls, aggravated assault, Alyssa Mansfield, anonymous 911 calls, Arthur Allen Bourdeau, assault on an officer, Blacksferry Road, Claxton, Cody Shane Awais, contempt of court, controlled substance, David Harry Wender, disorderly conduct, drug paraphernalia, East Circle, Kevin Scott Garner, marijuana, misuse of 911, probation violation, reckless endangerment, resale of marijuana, resisting arrest, Samir Joseph Awais, shooting, shots fired

Police arrest driver who resisted officer, hit steel post at Rocky Top

Posted at 1:25 pm June 24, 2014
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Rocky Top Steel Pole Damage

Police have arrested the Knoxville man who resisted an officer at a Rocky Top convenience store early Tuesday morning before hitting this steel pole in the gas station’s parking lot.

 

Knox County and Oak Ridge officers have arrested the Knoxville man who resisted an officer before he accelerated toward a Rocky Top store and hit a steel pole in the gas station’s parking lot early Tuesday morning, authorities said.

Sherrius Smith, 20, was arrested at an apartment on West Vista Ridge Way in Knoxville at about 11:10 a.m. Tuesday by members of the Knox County Sheriff’s Office Warrant Division and Oak Ridge Police Department Special Projects Unit, the ORPD said in a press release. He was transferred to the ORPD, which is taking him to the Anderson County Detention Center in Clinton, where he will face the following charges, a press release said:

  • two counts of aggravated assault,
  • possession of schedule VI controlled substances for resale, [Read more…]

Filed Under: Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County Detention Facility, evading arrest, gas station, Knox County, Knox County Sheriff’s Office, Knoxville, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge Police Department, ORPD, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of schedule VI controlled substances for resale, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, Rocky Top, Sherrius Smith, Special Projects Unit, store, violations of a drug free school zone

Charges pending against juvenile who attacked several officers, police say

Posted at 6:01 pm March 6, 2014
By Oak Ridge Today Staff 1 Comment

Oak Ridge High School

Oak Ridge High School is pictured above.

Charges are pending against a 17-year-old male student who allegedly created a violent disturbance in an Oak Ridge High School classroom on Thursday morning, fled the campus, and then attacked several officers trying to make contact with him in a parking lot across the street, authorities said.

The high school staff reported the classroom disturbance to Oak Ridge Police Department school resource officers at about 8:01 a.m. Thursday, a press release said. The student was located in a parking lot across the street from the high school. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: assault, disorderly conduct, disturbance, Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge Police Department, ORPD, resisting arrest, school resource officer, student

Charges pending against ORHS student who assaulted officer, police say

Posted at 6:59 pm March 4, 2014
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Charges are pending against an Oak Ridge High School student accused of assaulting an officer and classmate on Monday, authorities said.

An Oak Ridge Police Department press release said School Resource Officer Michael Swigert saw the 17-year-old male involved in a disturbance with a high school staff member at about 2:13 p.m. Monday. The staff member said the unruly boy had just assaulted a 17-year-old female classmate, the release said.

“Officer Swigert attempted to contact the student, who refused to comply with the officer’s commands and continued to create a disturbance, yelling, slamming doors, and knocking over a floor sign,” the press release said. “When Officer Swigert ordered the student to cease his actions, the student again refused to comply and assaulted the officer.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, K-12, Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: assault, Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge Police Department, ORPD, resisting arrest, school resource officer

Intoxicated, wearing only a shirt, woman tries to bite officer, police say

Posted at 12:09 am July 18, 2013
By John Huotari 1 Comment

Crystal Jane Wombles

Crystal Jane Wombles

She was extremely intoxicated and was outside on her porch wearing only a shirt when Oliver Springs police arrived, and neighbors said she had been completely naked a few minutes earlier, authorities said.

Crystal J. Wombles, 35, of Crystal Lane in Oliver Springs, was not wearing “bottoms or underwear…showing her bottom private parts to children and the neighbors,” Oliver Springs Police Department Patrolman Nathaniel W. Nelson said in an incident report. The neighbors had instructed their kids to go inside, the patrolman said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Oliver Springs, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County Detention Facility, Crystal J. Wombles, Crystal Lane, escape, indecent exposure, Nathaniel W. Nelson, Oliver Springs, Oliver Springs Police Department, possession of controlled substances, possession of drug paraphernalia, public intoxication, resisting arrest

Three arrested, crowd pepper-sprayed during arrests at fireworks show

Posted at 2:58 pm July 2, 2013
By John Huotari 2 Comments

Information from WYSH Radio

Three people were arrested Saturday night during the “Fire on the Water” fireworks show at Sequoyah Marina on Norris Lake after a disturbance that ended with an Anderson County Sheriff’s Department deputy deploying pepper spray on an allegedly angry crowd of onlookers.

The incident began at around 9:30 p.m. Saturday when a homeowner on Sequoyah Drive approached three deputies assigned to a special detail to monitor the festivities and told them that he was having a private engagement party on his property. He told the deputies that two men and a woman had come onto the property from the public area roped off for fireworks viewing, taken beer, threatened party guests, and refused to leave. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Anderson County, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: Aaron Rodriguez-McCleary, Alyssa Bryant, Anderson County Sheriff's Department, Bradley Nimitz, disorderly conduct, disturbance, Fire on the Water, fireworks, Norris Lake, party, pepper spray, public intoxication, resisting arrest, Sequoyah Drive, Sequoyah Marina, Shawn Bannach, William Lucas

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