SEVIERVILLE â A Seymour man is facing new charges after he allegedly lied under oath in court and then tried to pay an officer to let him go as they went to the jail.
Jared James Ogle, 27, of 453 Tucker Road in Seymour, was in Sevier County Circuit Court Monday afternoon for motions related to drug charges, when court officials noticed he was in the courtroom with a person who had an order of protection against him.
When Judge Jim Gass called him to the stand and asked him if there was a person present with an order of protection against him, he said there was not.
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.
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Columbia is not the only place seeing a rise in new bird-watchers. According to the Associated Press, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has seen a 102% increase in downloads of its free bird identification app, Merlin ID, last year compared to 2019.
And the best time for new birders to start is the wintertime, according to Jim Gast, the president of the Columbia Audubon Society.
“It’s a good time because you don’t have a lot of leaves in the trees that can obscure the birds from your view,” Gast said. “There also aren’t as many species in the winter, so it’s easier to learn 20 birds than about 120 birds that you see in the spring.”