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Local law enforcement set out before dawn on Tuesday to round up suspected drug dealers in the culmination of a six-month undercover drug operation. A Sevier County Grand Jury last week indicted 51 suspects as a result of a six-month undercover drug operation by the Sevier County Street Crimes Unit, a multi-agency task force Officers from participating agencies gathered in ...

The man who shot two people and then killed himself at Tanger Outlets in Sevierville was a felon prohibited from possessing a handgun and suffered from mental health issues, the investigation by Sevierville Police determined. According to police, 21-year-old Leon Steven Jones, Jr. went to the Tanger Outlet, 1645 Parkway, with his girlfriend to do some shopping on Tuesday, April ...

A man allegedly used a gun in the robbery the Family Dollar store in Kodak on Friday, the second armed robbery of a Winfield Dunn Parkway business in two days. According to the Sevierville Police Department, a man reportedly entered the Family Dollar, located in the Food City shopping center at 2946 Winfield Dunn Parkway in Kodak, about 3:30 p.m. ...

Sevierville police are searching for a man who allegedly robbed a convenience store at gunpoint on Thursday night. Sevierville police officers responded to an armed robbery of Shell Fastop, located at 1855 Winfield Dunn Parkway (Highway 66) in Sevierville, reported just after 10 p.m. on Thursday, April 25, 2019. “A store employee stated that a man entered the store brandishing ...

A local man is facing charges of reckless endangerment after he allegedly rode a motorcycle on a Sevierville Greenway and nearly struck pedestrians. Sevierville police officers responded to complaints of a man riding a motorcycle on the West Prong Greenway on Monday, April 22, 2019 at about 1:41 p.m. Witnesses told police that the motorcyclist was traveling at a high ...

Four visitors from Georgia have been charged with felony theft after police responded to a shoplifting complaint and found $20,000 worth of merchandise in the suspects’ vehicle. Sevierville police officers responded to a shoplifting complaint in the area of Tanger Outlet Sevierville on Saturday, April 20, 2019. “A witness described the suspects as two black females wearing hospital scrub clothing ...

Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) and R&R Fly Fishing Co-owners Ian & Charity Rutter visited Great Smoky Mountains National Park along the Laurel Falls trail to observe dilapidated infrastructure sites and take part in fly fishing along the Little Greenbrier River. The park currently faces $151 million in deferred maintenance projects that negatively impact visitors’ ability to enjoy the Smokies. In ...

Authorities released the names of the alleged shooter and victims of Tuesday’s random shooting at Tanger Outlets Sevierville. A day of shopping at Tanger Outlets Sevierville ended in tragedy when a man randomly shot two tourists outside the Coach store and then turned the gun upon himself. The Sevierville Police Department says officers responded within minutes to Tanger Outlets Sevierville ...

A knife-wielding man was shot and killed by Pigeon Forge police after an attempt to serve an arrest warrant allegedly escalated to a fatal confrontation on Monday morning. Officers with the Pigeon Forge Police Department went to the Glenshiel apartments located at 2806 Suncrest Drive to serve an arrest warrant for 42-year-old Samuel Charles Talbott on Monday, April 15, 2019. ...

Panel to discuss animals such as bears killed in motor vehicle collisions along the I-40 Pigeon River Gorge wildlife corridor. Vehicles collide with large mammals as many as 2 million times each year in the United States, resulting in roughly $12 billion in costs plus loss of life. This global issue has reached a regional tipping point throughout East Tennessee ...