Author: jock

Two Arrested On Drug Charges

Two arrested Monday afternoon in Newport on drug charges. A Newport patrol officer was patrolling through the parking lot of Hometown Laundry on Cope Blvd and spotted a vehicle with tags that expired in...

16 Year Old Charged With Assault

A 16 year old boy was arrested over the weekend after assaulting his mother. The boy’s mother told police that her son opened the refrigerator and took out a bottle of rum and began...

Man Eludes Police

Police are looking for a man who eluded police. A vehicle with no or an illegal exhaust system pulled out onto Hwy 25/70 from Generation Drive before then turning onto Thinwood Drive and proceeding...

Police Respond To Unresponsive Male

Newport police were called Saturday morning to the parking lot of Costner-Malloy Funeral home about an unresponsive male subject sitting in a vehicle. Officers arrived and found a 79 year old male in the...

Man Charged In Motorcycle Crash

A Tennessee man is being charged with vehicular homicide after a motorcyclist was killed in Cocke County early Saturday morning. According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, 33 year old Mack Hearron, III was driving...