The blotter is derived from recent central dispatch records and incident reports of area police agencies.
Sullivan County Sheriff's Office
Nov. 2
To prevent a man from leaving with her bank card, a woman reportedly busted a windshield out of a Neon on Sullivan Gardens Drive.
Nov. 3
On Walnut Grove Road a deputy's radar detector clocked a Chevrolet Cobalt traveling 81 mph. It was followed closely by a Jeep traveling approximately the same speed. A stop was conducted on the vehicles to find one driven by a Bluff City man, 44, and the other by his son, 19. They were each cited with drag racing, reckless driving and speeding.
A female claiming to be a reporter with the Times-News called the Sheriff's Office and demanded to be let into the jail. The imposter falsely stated several residents had came to the newspaper's office the previous day, carrying petitions regarding the welfare of inmates. The caller said they needed to verify the petition's complaints before an article was published in Sunday's paper, adding they had already obtained permission to enter the jail from a SCSO lieutenant. Her demands were denied.
Wise County Sheriff's Office
Oct. 29
A Coeburn man asked dispatchers for a guarantee that his neighbor, whom he'd been having problems with, would not vandalize his property while he was out of town.
Nov. 4
A woman in Wise reported someone grabbed pumpkins from her front porch and, "smashed them all over the place."
Hawkins County Sheriff's Office
Nov. 1
A Vicars Chapel Road resident reported going outside her home to investigate a noise. While walking around her vehicles she was allegedly sucker punched and knocked to the ground, with the attacker stating, "I'll teach you to mess with my man!" The victim said she did not see the other woman, only a car driving away from the residence.
Nov. 2
Police responded to Carters Valley Road due to pigs running at large. The complainant said the pigs' owner had stated he was building a pen for the animals, which had yet to be done, leaving them to "run loose for a few months." Police referred the man to private prosecution.
For the expanded blotter lisings read each Tuesday and Friday's print edition of the Times-News.