ROGERSVILLE -- A Sneedville man who was arrested by the Hawkins County Sheriff's Office earlier this month on a DUI charge is now facing a felony charge for allegedly threatening the arresting officer and the officer's wife, mother and grandmother.
Jacob Colby Trent, 26, 351 Maple Road, Sneedville, was arrested Aug. 7 about 3:30 a.m. after Deputy Jeremy Nash and Deputy Jason Montgomery found him parked on Pressmens Home Road asleep behind the wheel with a passenger.
After failing field sobriety tests, Trent was arrested for DUI and transported to the Hawkins County Rescue Squad station for a blood draw.
While en route to the rescue squad, Trent allegedly began yelling at Nash that he was being treated unfairly.
In the arrest affidavit, Nash quotes Trent as saying, "You're just a (expletive) cop who won't give a man a break. ... You just wait until I see you in the public without your gun and your badge. I'll (expletive) your world up."
Upon arriving for his blood draw, Trent was reportedly cooperative, but while being driven by Nash to the jail he allegedly began making threats again.
Nash quotes Trent as saying, "(Expletive) your mother, wife and grandmother. ... You will pay for taking me to jail. Just wait until my court date. You'll regret your life."
Nash stated in the arrest affidavit that Trent was disruptive at the jail as well and was placed in the "detox" cell.
After being released from jail, Trent went to retrieve his vehicle and spoke to Josh Myers, owner of Myers Towing.
Myers gave a statement regarding that conversation, quoting Trent as stating, "Deputy Nash was a total (double expletive) to me."
Myers said Trent told him his arresting officer "would have taken an (expletive) beating, and he's going to take a bullet -- him and his wife."
Friday morning Trent was served with an arrest warrant charging him with retaliation for past action, a Class E felony punishable by one to two years in prison.
As of Monday evening, Trent remained lodged in the Hawkins County jail on $20,000 bond with arraignment set for Aug. 22.