ELIZABETHTON â Carter County Sheriffâs Department deputies arrested a woman Monday following an investigation of home invasion complaints at a residence on Newton Road.
Last Thursday, deputies responded to a burglary in progress call at the residence. When the deputies arrived, they were told by the victim that the burglar had already left the area.
The homeowner told deputies she heard someone in the home. She said she searched the house and discovered a tall person hiding in a closet. The suspect then pushed their way out of the closet and ran out of the residence.
Based on evidence developed during the investigation, deputies identified 30-year-old Karen Ashley Berry as a suspect. The investigators began conducting surveillance to find Berry and on Monday, she was arrested at her residence on Big Sandy Road.
ELIZABETHTON â Three men charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 10-year-old Lillyhanna Davis made their first appearance in Carter County Criminal Court on Monday morning.
Jason Bryan Barber II, Jediah Shane Glover, and Zachary Scott Scalf each appeared before Judge Lisa Rice to enter not guilty pleas. Each man was dressed in the red and white striped uniform issued to prisoners of the Carter County Jail who are charged with felonies. The men have been held in pretrial confinement since their arrests in November.
In addition to the murder charge, each man is also facing eight counts of reckless endangerment, aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. The men were originally in General Sessions Court, where they underwent a preliminary hearing on Jan. 8. Following that hearing, Judge Keith Bowers Jr. ordered them to appear in Criminal Court on April 12.
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ELIZABETHTON â A Carter County man faces several charges after he was accused of confronting deputies with a revolver and an ax on Tuesday.
Sgt. William Staschak said he was dispatched around 7 p.m. to a reported trespassing at a residence on Shalom Drive. When Staschak arrived, he said he spoke with a homeowner, who told him that a neighbor was intoxicated and had been standing in her yard, screaming and refusing to leave. She said the neighbor finally went home when the deputy arrived.
Staschak then went to the neighbor, identified as Johnny Jefferson Jackson, 56, 231 Tester Road. When he arrived, Staschak spoke with a woman who shared the residence with Jackson. The woman told Staschak that Jackson was asleep and she would keep him in the house if he woke up.
Their preliminary hearing was held Friday morning in Carter County Sessions Court.
After the hearing, Judge Keith Bowers Jr. bound over Jason Bryan Barber II, 18; Jediah Shane Glover, 20; and Zachary Scott Scalf, 20. Each is charged with first-degree murder, eight counts of aggravated assault reckless endangerment, possession of a firearm during commission of a felony and criminal conspiracy. The men are scheduled to appear in Carter County Criminal Court on April 12.
They remain in the Carter County Jail on pretrial confinement.
Bowers kept the bond for each man at $900,000. He also scheduled another preliminary hearing on Jan. 29 for Barber and Glover on counts of aggravated assault in a different shooting incident on Swimming Pool Road in Hampton.