Tag Archives: TBI

Three men booked into the Warren County Jail, charged with uploading child sexual abuse material online. TBI agents led the investigation after a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. 40-year old Garry Alford, 32-year old Johnathan Curtis, and 38-year old Clifton Johnston arrested. Each charged with one count of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor. The three ... Read More »

The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department will hold a firearm certification course for retired law enforcement at the Department’s training facility in Baxter. Sheriff Eddie Farris said 2004 legislation allows retired officers to carry a firearm anywhere in the United States by participating in annual training. He said the Department is proud to offer resources and opportunities like this one to ... Read More »

A former Fentress County Corrections Officer turned himself in Wednesday after allegations of misconduct. 24-year old Coltan Daniel Jones faces four counts of Official Misconduct and four counts of Unlawful Photography. The charges the result of allegations that Jones photographed female inmates during his service at the Fentress County Jail. The TBI began the investigation in July, 2023. Jones booked ... Read More »

The TBI is investigating an officer-related shooting Sunday night involving the Jamestown Police Department. Officers responded to a 911 call around 8:30pm Sunday in the 200 block of Rugby Avenue. Officers encountered an armed individual upon arrival. An officer fired at the individual, striking the person. The reason why remains under investigation, according to the TBI. The armed individual taken ... Read More »

A Roane County man arrested in the drug-related death of a woman at her Cumberland County workplace in August, 2021. 45-year-old Michael Paul Kerley charged with one count of Second Degree Murder and one count of the Manufacture, Sale, Delivery of Schedule II Narcotics. Kerley charged in the death of Ashley Nicole Cressel. The woman found unresponsive at her workplace ... Read More »

Algood Police Chief Dale Armour attended the groundbreaking of the state’s new police academy in Nashville Wednesday. The $415 million campus will replace the old academy in Donelson. It serves as a training facility for city and county police, highway patrol, TBI, and even corrections officers. Armour said the new academy will help law enforcement from different branches, including Algood, ... Read More »

The TBI, working with multiple agencies nationwide, has identified the skeletal remains of a man found in Crossville in 1983. Kenneth Levall Thompson of Detroit went missing in 1982 or 1983, according to the bureau. His remains were found August 26, 1983 near Sycamore Lane in Crossville. The victim had been stabbed multiple death and the death was ruled a ... Read More »

A 24-year-old White County woman killed Monday morning at a home off Cherry Road. Monday afternoon, TBI agents and White County Sheriffs Deputies arrested 38-year-old Clayton Matthew Watson of Pikeville on one count of First Degree Murder. Watson booked into the White County Jail on $1 million bond. Watson accused of killing Dara Jade Butler. A 911 call to a ... Read More »

The husband of a Crossville woman faces gun charges after his wife was shot Tuesday night. TBI Special Agents have charged 39-year-old Donald Wayne Jackson with one count of Unlawful Carrying or Possession of a Firearm. Jackson has a felony criminal history and cannot possess firearms. The investigation continues after Jackson’s wife, 52-year-old Terri Loretta Pitton, died of a gunshot ... Read More »

The TBI and the Cumberland County Sheriffs Department investigating the shooting of a Crossville woman inside her Brown Road home. 53-year old Terri Loretta Pinton discovered Tuesday night after deputies were called to a shooting. They discovered Pinton with a gunshot wound. She died at Cumberland Medical Center from her injuries. The incident happed just after 11pm. The two agencies ... Read More »