Tag Archives: crime

Law enforcement tracked down and arrested a man who allegedly burglarized a Cosby convenience store over the weekend. The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office said an employee at Jack’s Market, 5342 East Parkway in Cosby, showed up Sunday morning, July 9, 2017, to open the convenience store and found that the store had been burglarized. Detectives reviewed video from the surveillance ...

Authorities searched a residence in the Eagle Den Subdivision of Sevier County on Saturday after two drug overdoses occurred there, reportedly finding that drugs were being packaged and sold and counterfeit money made at the home. Sevier County Sheriff’s officers and EMS personnel responded to two separate overdose calls at a home located at 806 Carter Street in Seymour on ...

Clerks at three convenience stores in Sevier County were cited for selling beer to a minor on Tuesday. Responding to complaints of underage alcohol sales in the Seymour area, the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit conducted an undercover operation on Tuesday, July 4, 2017. In three of eleven establishments tested by officers, the clerk sold beer to an ...

A missing girl and her alleged abductor who were the subjects of an Amber Alert in Texas were found Wednesday night at a Sevierville restaurant. The U.S. Marshals Service notified the Sevierville Police Department that 20-year-old Andrew Brian Akers and a 15-year-old missing girl, Stormie Clemmer, could be in Sevierville. Clemmer was reported missing from Alpine, TX since June 22, ...

Vandalism is an ongoing problem in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and rangers are currently investigating an incident in which a man was reportedly photographed vandalizing a tree. A hiker along the Gatlinburg Trail snapped photos of a man allegedly using a knife to carve away the bark of a tree. According to Park Ranger Jamie Sanders, the incident ...

A Sevierville man appearing in Sevier County court on an aggravated domestic assault charge was taken into custody after security officers found him carrying knives. According to Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals, 24-year-old Joseph Brennan showed up in Sevier County General Sessions Court for a court appearance carrying a backpack. Court security officers escorted him out of the courtroom and ...

A Pigeon Forge man and eleven other people were charged Wednesday for a marriage fraud scheme in which U.S. citizens entered into fake marriages with non-citizens, traveling to Sevier County get married, in order to aid their immigration status. A federal criminal bill of indictment was unsealed Wednesday in Asheville, charging twelve individuals with marriage fraud conspiracy and related charges, ...

Police are searching for a man who committed an early morning armed robbery of a Sevierville convenience store. The Sevierville Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying a suspect seen on video surveillance robbing J’s Market, located at 1297 Dolly Parton Parkway in Sevierville, at gunpoint about 6:30 a.m. on Friday, June 16, 2017. According to detectives, the ...

Two inmates that escaped from the Sevier County Jail on Monday are back in custody and facing additional charges. Guards monitoring surveillance cameras spotted Robers A. Sosa, 27, and Clyde Lee Martin, 34, jumping the perimeter fence just after midnight on Monday. The inmates managed to evade a foot pursuit by corrections officers and a search by members of the ...

Authorities are searching for two inmates that escaped from the Sevier County Jail on Monday. According to Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals, jail guards monitoring surveillance cameras saw two inmates jump a perimeter fence outside the jail at 12:30 a.m. on May 22, 2017. Corrections officers pursued the inmates on foot but they eluded the officers. Members of the Sheriff’s ...