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Dozens of people were arrested Wednesday as a result of an undercover operation by the Sevier County Street Crimes Narcotics Unit. According to Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals, a Sevier County Grand Jury returned 90 presentments when it convened earlier this month as a result of an ongoing undercover operation dubbed Safe Streets Belitz. Officers and agents from Sevier County ...

A Sevierville man wanted in connection with a hit and run that left two children seriously inured turned himself to authorities. 47-year-old Pablo Hernandez, of Sevierville, was arrested and charged with felony leaving the scene of an accident with serious bodily injury, after he allegedly hit two children just before 7 a.m. on Thursday morning near 701 West Main Street ...

Two children were struck by a pickup truck while crossing the street in Sevierville Thursday morning and the driver fled the scene. Sevierville police and fire departments responded to a report of two children being struck by a vehicle near 701 West Main Street just before 7 a.m. on February 20, 2020. Witnesses told police that a pickup truck traveling ...

Sevier County Early Voting has begun for the March 3, 2020 Election. The State of Tennessee Presidential Preference Primaries, Sevier County Democrat & Republican Primaries, and Nonpartisan School Board Election will be held March 3, 2020. Early voting opened Wednesday at the Voting Machine Warehouse in Sevierville and opens Friday at the Seymour Masonic Lodge #334 in Seymour. Registered voters ...

Motorists traveling between Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge on the Spur US-321 are being detoured around a mudslide. Large trucks and over-sized vehicles are advised to use other major roads such as TN-416. Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Federal Highways Administration staff assessed the mudslide, which occurred about 10:30 p.m. on February 10, 2020, on the Spur and began clearing ...

The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office says two men face felony charges after they allegedly fired multiple shots into a Kodak residence on Monday. Officers responded to a home on Mutton Hollow Road in Kodak about 11:45 a.m. on Monday, February 10, 2020 after receiving reports of someone firing shots into a residence. Officers found multiple bullet holes in the front ...

A falling tree tore the roof off a van traveling Wears Valley Road on Thursday, injuring four City of Sevierville employees and a killing a teacher from the Sevier County Public School System. According to a release, a City of Sevierville van carrying six city employees and one employee’s spouse was involved in an accident on Wears Valley Road near ...

An off-duty police officer was allegedly shot and killed by his wife during an argument after leaving a local distillery Saturday night. According to the Sevierville Police Department, officers responded to a shooting just before 7:30 p.m. on February 1, 2020 at 3099 Winfield Dunn Parkway in Kodak, the Sevierville Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center. Officers found a male victim, ...

The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office, in partnership with the Tennessee Valley Authority, is offering free firewood to citizens of Sevier County who are disabled and/or 65 years of age and older. This program will be offered free of charge to eligible residents on a first-come, first-serve basis. The Tennessee Valley Authority has volunteers who have donated their time to cut, ...

The U.S. Census Bureau is looking to fill Census jobs in Sevier County, including Census takers who will visit households that don’t respond to the Census and interview those residents to collect Census data. The agency plans to hire up to 500,000 temporary, part-time census takers for the 2020 Census in communities across the country to reach its goal of ...