Tag Archives: Roane County Sheriff’s Department

Update (5:00pm): The highway has just been opened back up to through traffic. UPDATE (1:27 pm): EMA Director, Tim Suter confirmed that there have been two fatalities in this accident at 3015 Harriman Highway. There are detours in place from Blair Road and Rockbridge Road and Big Emory which will …

The Roane County Sheriff’s Department has now identified the body found last Wednesday in Midtown, as 56-year-old Charles Lee Jenkins of Rockwood. According to Chief Deputy Tim Hawn there is no reason at this time to suspect any Foul Play, but the investigation is still ongoing. The Sheriff’s department was …

The Roane County Sheriff’s Department’s investigative team is looking into the discovery of a partially decomposed body in the Midtown area earlier today. According to Chief Deputy Tim Phillips with the Sheriff’s Department, whom we spoke with earlier today, stated He and Sheriff Stockton were at the location around 9:00am …

One person is in the county jail on numerous charges after a traffic stop by County deputies last Friday night around 11:30pm. According to the Roane County Sheriff’s Department intake database, 23-year-old Jordan Ladean Cox was booked in on four charges of aggravated assault, four charges of reckless endangerment, two …

The Roane County Sheriff’s Department arrested a male subject Tuesday evening just after 7:00 after a deputy pulled over the car the suspect was driving. He was identified as Eric Dwayne Ellison 52. After checking on his status it was determined he did not have a driver’s license and he …

According to a Tennessee Highway Patrol report we received on Monday evening a motorcyclist from Roane County’s south end was injured last Friday evening when his motorcycle he was operating collided with a car on Ponders Gap Road resulting in him being seriously injured and transported to the hospital. The …

Updated: Person Charged was Scott Dewayne Cooper, 45 (Harriman Police Department Press Release) On April 13, 2023, officers with the Harriman Police Department, Roane County Sheriff’s Office, and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant on a garage located at 109 Baumgartner Road in Harriman. The search warrant was …

After speaking with County Executive Wade Creswell today and Roane Sheriff Chief Deputy Tim Hawn we would like to make a correction on yesterday’s story on salary increases for the sheriff’s department employees. We had previously reported the proposed salary increases from the sheriff which through budget committee workshops there …

In an update on last Thursday afternoons deadly shooting incident at the Midtown Body Shop. Today Sheriff Jack Stockton told us that the owner Rocky King, one of the victims who was shot in the head, was released from the hospital this past weekend. His daughter who was married to …

We are still awaiting a formal press release from Roane County authorities on Thursday afternoons fatal shooting at a Roane County Business in the Midtown area near Harriman. Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton confirmed that one female died at the Midtown Body Shop on Roane State Highway (Highway 70) in …