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The Sevierville Police Department is asking for help from the public in locating two suspects with multiple active warrants for their arrest. According to SPD Detective Kevin Bush, 28-year old Amanda Lynn Wells of Sevier County and 53-year old Lawrence H. Bond of Morristown both have active warrants charging them with aggravated robbery and especially aggravated kidnapping. Bond also has ...

A man was found dead inside the historic Smokemont Baptist Church in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Sunday. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Park Service are investigating the death of a man whose body was discovered in the Smokemont Baptist Church on March 29, 2015 as a homicide. Smokemont Baptist Church, also known ...

Police have arrested four students in connection with burglaries at two Seymour schools. The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office announced that four students are facing two counts of burglary and criminal trespassing after two Seymour schools were burglarized in the early morning hours on Sunday, March 29, 2015. According to Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals, his office received a call at ...

Police have arrested an Illinois man who they say traveled to Sevier County to have sex with a 13-year-old girl after communicating with her through a messaging app. According to Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals, officers charged 21-year-old Ryan K. Herrmann, of Rock City, Ill., with one count of statutory rape after their investigation found he traveled to Sevier County ...

An inmate is back in custody at the Sevier County Jail after escaping, fleeing in a stolen car and then ramming patrol cars of officers attempting to recapture him. At approximately 3:34 p.m. on Monday, March 16, 2015, inmate Stanley J. Wallace, 24, of Kingston, Tenn., jumped the fence of an outdoor recreation yard at the Sevier County Jail Annex, ...

A Sevier County man already being held for child sex crimes now faces thirty-four additional counts of child rape. According to a release by the Sevierville Police Department, 30-year old Jonathan Ryan Lewis of Kodak has been charged with thirty-four counts of rape of a child involving a boy under the age of thirteen. The charges are the result of ...

The City of Sevierville Police Department (SPD) will be hosting several public training courses presented by the Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security (TNOHS). The courses are designed for individuals, businesses, schools, organizations and other private entities. The courses will be held at the Sevierville Civic Center on Thursday, March 19, 2015 from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. There ...

A Sevier County man facing armed robbery charges was found dead in his Sevier County Jail cell by a corrections officer on Sunday morning. According to Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals, a guard found Ronald D. Arrowood, 23, of 934 Indian Gap Rd. in Sevierville, hanging in his cell by a bed sheet at approximately 11:17 a.m. on March 1, ...

The Sevierville Police Department announced Tuesday that three people have been arrested in connection with the vandalism at Sevier County High School on Monday, Feb. 24, 2015. Officers responded to an alarm at the high school just after 5 a.m. on Monday. They found that someone had entered the main school building through a window at the back of the school and ...

Police are looking for the person or persons who broke into and vandalized Sevier County High School in Sevierville. The Sevierville Police Department is investigating a case of extensive vandalism at Sevier County High School that occurred early Monday morning. Officers responded to an alarm at the school just after 5 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 23, 2015, but found no ...