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An off road utility vehicle on display as a prize in the charity raffle next month by Smoky Mountain Celebration has been stolen. The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating the Polaris RZR 570 side by side utility vehicle stolen from a trailer in the parking lot of Chambers Market at 2720 Newport Highway ...

An endangered child alert has been issued in middle and east Tennessee for 14 year-old Jasmine Nicole Johnson, who has been missing from Cookeville since Aug. 13, 2015. Jasmine is a white female, 5’1″ tall, weighs 140 lbs., and has blue eyes and brown hair. She was wearing a black and white shirt with blue jeans shorts. According to police, ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – A North Carolina man has been sentenced to six months in jail for illegally harvesting a significant amount of American ginseng from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, marking his fifth conviction for ginseng poaching. Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina announced today that U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis L. Howell ...

The husband of a woman reported missing last week has been charged with attempted murder. The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday that they located Katherine Walker and arrested her husband Phillip Joe Matthews, 41, following an investigation that revealed she fled into hiding after he allegedly tried to kill her with a sword. On July 31, 2015, Sevier County ...

JACKSON, Tenn. – Less than a month after a new law went into effect to help identify, investigate, and prosecute human trafficking in Tennessee, Special Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation joined with partner agencies in West Tennessee to identify and arrest individuals who prey on children. Operation SLMTBI Agents, including those assigned to TBI’s Internet Crimes Against Children ...

UPDATE: The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office announced on Sunday, August 2, 2015 that the case has been resolved and Walker was located. The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a Sevierville woman who has been missing more than a week. According to Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals, 41-year-old Katherine Levon Walker was last seen ...

A Sevierville man visiting Washington, D.C. and looking for the White House now faces felony gun possession charges. 59-year-old Steve Randall Oney, of Sevierville, was arrested near the U.S. Capitol in the yearly morning hours Tuesday after asking police where the White House was located and admitting to having firearms in his vehicle. According to an affidavit by U.S. Capitol ...

The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office announced on Monday the appointment of an officer who will focus on the rising number of domestic violence cases in the county. Officer Jennifer Naillon has been named the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office Domestic Violence Officer, whose duty it will be to assist victims of domestic violence. According to Sheriff Ron Seals, the department performed ...

The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in identifying two female subjects in connection with a stolen credit card case. On July 20, 2015, the two females allegedly went into several convenience stores in Sevier County and bought merchandise with the stolen credit cards. Security cameras captured images of the women and their silver or gray compact ...

Officers and detectives from the Sevierville Police Department are requesting assistance from the public to identify two persons of interest in a recent report of fraud at the Sevierville AT&T store. According to Sevierville Police Department Officer Graham Ownby, the Sevierville AT&T store at 620 Parkway contacted police to report that two men used false identification to fraudulently obtain two ...