February
17, 2002
Arrests
* Julie Ann Kirk, 29, 102 Mason Lane, Johnson
City, was arrested Thursday by Elizabethton Police Department
Ptl. Jennifer Mayberry following a traffic stop. Kirk was
charged with second-offense DUI.
* Victor T. Haynes Jr., 19, 507 E. Cottage Ave.,
was arrested Thursday by EPD Sgt. Roger Crowe following a
traffic stop. Haynes was charged with driving on suspended
license and transported to Carter County Jail. Upon arrival
at the jail, Haynes also was served with outstanding arrest
warrants charging him with assault and criminal trespass.
* Dale Lee Greer, 29, 153 Charlie Carson Road,
Jonesborough, was arrested Thursday by Carter County Sheriff's
Department Sgt. Patrick Johnson on a warrant charging him
with violation of probation.
* Robin Glen Clawson, 30, 1171 Buck Mountain
Road, Roan Mountain, was arrested Thursday by CCSD Deputy
Todd Hamm on a warrant charging him with failure to appear
on second-offense driving on suspended.
* Danny E. Holtsclaw, 42, 203 Buck Mountain Road,
Roan Mountain, was arrested Wednesday by CCSD Deputy Michael
Carlock and charged with driving on revoked license and evading
arrest.
Theft
* Danny Minton, 37, 105 Lick Skillet Road, reported
Thursday to CCSD that someone had stolen his Stihl Farm-Boss
chainsaw from beside the roadway where he had been sawing
up a walnut tree.
Vandalism
* Jennifer Cable, 215 Short Coal Chute Road;
Thomas Fair, 1623 Gap Creek Road; and Carl Watson, 141 Short
Coal Chute Road, reported Thursday to CCSD Sgt. Patrick Johnson
that their mailboxes had been vandalized. Cable advised the
officer that around 10 p.m. Wednesday she and her husband
observed a small vehicle with a loud stereo and no lights
drive by the residence and found the mailbox vandalized the
next morning. The same complaint was filed by Fair. The vandalisms
appear to be an ongoing problem, according to the report.
* CCSD Deputy Todd Hamm responded Thursday to
Dollar General Store in Hampton regarding the vandalism of
a Coke machine. An employee of Coca-Cola Bottling Co., located
in Boone, N.C., reported that someone had pried open the door
to the machine and had taken an unknown amount of money, mostly
dollar bills, from the changer. The door of the machine was
damaged and pry marks were visible.
Child abuse
* Crystal Godsey, 142 Spears Ave., reported Thursday
to CCSD Deputy Jim Whaley that her father came to her mother's
home uninvited and entered through the back door. He then
asked why Godsey's 3-year-old son was crying and went back
out the back door. Godsey said her father then came back into
the residence via the front door and went into the bedroom
where her son was and began striking him on the legs with
a switch. Godsey said she told her father to stop, at which
time her father told her the child has demons and you have
to whip them out, according to the report. The officer observed
red streaks on the child's legs.
