According to Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton and Rockwood Police Chief Bill Stinnett, around 9:00 this morning and area of the Rockwood Walmart parking lot was roped off after an investigation of a stolen vehicle and a 16-year-old juvenile escapee from North Carolina was found asleep inside the vehicle. Roane …
Read More »Roane County Sheriff’s Department Investigating a Shooting that has left one dead
The Roane County Sheriff’s Department is investigating yet another shooting incident which left one man dead, according to sheriff Stockton. Around 5 p.m. today (June 24th) shots were fired at 725 Kessler Mill Road in Harriman and upon arrival one man was found dead from a gunshot wound. The sheriff …
Read More »RCSO investigates after man shot to death following argument
The Roane County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a man was shot to death late Sunday afternoon. The RCSO says that the incident occurred at around 4:45 pm on Raby Hollow Road in south Roane County. Witnesses told investigators that an argument preceded the shooting, and that the victim, identified …
Read More »No Foul Play Suspected with Body Found in Rockwood
According to a press release from The Roane County Sheriff’s Department assistant Chief Deputy Tim Hawn, On Thursday June 6, 2022, at around 2PM Deputies responded to a Welfare Check at 1198 Joiner Hollow Road. Family members were concerned about the resident, James E. Britton, age 74, after not having …
Read More »Investigation continues after 2 found dead in Roane County
622 Buck Creek Road, East Roane County. (Photo courtesy of WVLT) Information has been slow coming as to how two persons died at a residence on Buck Creek Road in East Roane County. Today Sheriff Jack Stockton gave us the names of the two victims, identified as Steve Groover and …
Read More »Three Arrested After Month-Long Investigation
On Thursday, April 21, 2022, a month-long multijurisdictional crime spree was brought to an end. RCSO deputies Darrell Phillips and Seth Hammonds, acting upon information provided by our dispatchers, immediately responded to 1618 Old Post Oak Rd and arrested Justin Brafford, Michael Hamby, and Thomas Wicks, all on outstanding warrants. …
Read More »Roane County Man Arrested for Aggravated Domestic Assault; was Out on Bond from Earlier Assault Charges
According to a press release today from The Roane County Sheriff’s Department, on Wednesday, March 9th, at approximately 10:00 PM the Roane County Sheriff’s Office responded to a physical domestic at 810 Cave Creek Road in East Roane County with a Loudon address. Deputies found that Roger Alan Mills age …
Read More »Harriman Police Find Large Indoor Pot Grow Scene
On 1/5/2022, the Harriman Police Department Narcotics Division, along with members of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations and the Roane County Sheriff’s Office conducted an investigation of a building near the downtown area of Harriman. During that investigation, a search warrant of the building was executed and an indoor grow …
Read More »Body Found In East Roane County on Sunday
Roane County Authorities are investigating a body that was found by a property owner at 2722 Paw Paw Plains Road in East Roane County Sunday afternoon. Roane Sheriff Jack Stockton said there deputies received a call to respond around 3:30 and then contacted him and then The District Attorney General’s …
Read More »Two Arrested for Aggravated Robbery and Other Charges
Pair arrested for Aggravated Robbery and other ChargesMichael Steven Gibson and Emily Cora Beason On December 8, 2021 at approximately 4:35am Deputies with the Roane County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call of a male entering a residence at 1756 Swan Pond Rd Harriman, armed with a handgun and …
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