Local Business Owner Assaulted

If you were at the Newport Bargain Barn on Tuesday, January 30, around 11:45am, you got to see something other than good prices. A truck driver, had parked his truck along US 25E, blocking the drive for the Newport Bargain Barn. Business owner Frank Oury asked the driver to please move his truck, but the man refused. After several more requests to move his truck, Oury approached the truck driver, who promptly punched the Newport Bargain Boarn owner in the face. That did not sit well with Oury, who pushed back and the fight was on. Employees of the Bargain Barn wound up taking the truck driver to the ground. The truck driver was identified as 36 year old Sentonio Gartrell of Norcross, Georgia. He told Cocke County deputies that Oury had gotten too close to him and he felt threatened, so he punched the business owner. Gartrell was taken into custody and charged with assault.