SEVIERVILLE â A Sevier County Sheriffâs deputy was trying to arrest a local man on drug charges filed through multiple sealed indictments Tuesday when he refused to surrender, leading to a two-hour standoff outside his home on Retreat Street.
The Sevier County Grand Jury returned presentments last month charging 32-year-old Matthew Eugene Dyke with three counts of sale of Schedule III drugs and three counts of sale of meth.
Presentments are indictments that were taken straight to the grand jury, meaning Dyke had not previously been charged with the crimes.
The deputy was actually trying to serve a separate, civil summons on Dyke at 1544 Retreat St. but during that process learned there were also indictments against him, Sevierville spokesman Bob Stahlke said.
SEVIERVILLE â A Gatlinburg woman had meth in her bloodstream when she was involved in a single-car wreck that took the life of her passenger, according to a THP report.
A Sevier County Grand Jury returned an indictment last month charging 40-year-old Amanda Karol Bright with vehicular homicide as well as DUI, reckless endangerment, failure to exercise due care, driving left of center, and driving on a suspended license.
The indictments charging Bright with the crime only indicated that she was involved in an accident that took the life of 66-year-old Ulra Winford McCollum on Sept. 26.
But the THP accident report, released after a records request by The Mountain Press, shows there was meth in McCollumâs blood when samples were drawn after the wreck.
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SEVIERVILLE â A Cookeville man who was in the Sevier County Jail for assault and violation of probation upped the ante on his charges by threatening a judge, an assistant district attorney, and a public defender, according to TBI.
Tyler Dakota Matthews, 25, of Cookeville, had been in the Sevier County Jail since Nov. 10, according to jail records. He was charged with violation of probation and three counts of assault; his bond was set at $6,000.
Now heâs facing $50,000 bond, because he allegedly sent letters from the jail threatening court officials.
The indictments allege he threatened Circuit Court Judge Jim Gass, public defender Mendi Winstead, and assistant district attorney general Ron Newcomb.