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On Tuesday evening Tullahoma Police were called to 2111 North Jackson Street for a female who was allegedly intoxicated at a business. Officers made contact with the woman who apparently had impaired motor skills. Officer Justin Smith states in the arrest warrant that Mary Lynette Womack age 54 of Old Estill Springs Rd, Tullahoma had slurred speech and was unsteady on her feet.
Officers go onto state that the subject was also found to have been involved in a hit and run accident at 315 East Lincoln Street in Tullahoma where she allegedly struck another vehicle and left the scene.
Officers were able to get a description of the vehicle that had left the scene and matched it with the Womack’s vehicle that was parked at the business at 2111 North Jackson Street.
Officer Smith states in the warrant that Womack also allegedly had 11 Xanax pills in a plastic baggie in her hand and did not have a prescription for them at the time of her arrest.
Due to the subjects condition the officer was unable to do field sobriety tests on Womack. Officers transported her to Tennova Harton Hospital for a blood/alcohol tests, results are pending.
Womack was charged with, schedule IV drug violations, failure to report an accident, leaving the scene of an accident, DUI and public intoxication.
Her bond was set at $10,500 and her court date is Jan 9, 2017. She was released after making bond on Wednesday.

A man and woman wanted in connection to the murders of three people at a pawn shop in Jackson, Mississippi over the weekend were spotted earlier this week in Coffee County.
A state trooper spotted Jamison Townsend and her boyfriend, Joshua Garcia, in Coffee County earlier this week, but they sped off. The trooper lost sight of the vehicle a short time later.
The duo were captured in Kansas early Wednesday after an interstate chase.
Deputies tried to stop the red Dodge Charger with no displayed registration on Interstate 70, but the car sped away and later crashed off the interstate.
Jamison Townsend, 35, formerly of Blue Springs, Missouri, was arrested in the wrecked car, according to Sheriff Tony Wolf of Kansas’ Geary County, west of Kansas City. Joshua Garcia, 37, of Biloxi, Mississippi, was found hours later hiding in a vehicle a mile from the crash site.

Census estimates show Tennessee’s population has grown in the past year by about 56,000 people.
The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2016 estimate for Tennessee is 6,651,194, which is about 0.9 percent more than 2015. Nationally, the population grew by about 0.7 percent in the past year.
Between 2000 and 2010, Tennessee’s population grew by 11.5 percent. The new estimates show the state’s population has grown by another 300,000 people, or nearly 5 percent, since 2010.
Eight states lost population, led by Illinois, where the number of people declined by more than 37,000, or 0.3 percent.

While Gov. Bill Haslam says he’s ready to unveil his plan to boost road funding in Tennessee, he says he’s putting off making any proposal public until fellow Republicans in the Legislature have time to explore their own funding ideas.
Lawmakers convene the 110th General Assembly for their organizational session on Jan. 10, but aren’t scheduled to get down to their regular business until Jan. 30 when Haslam is expected to deliver his annual state spending plan.
Haslam has argued new funding is needed to tackle a $6 billion backlog in road projects. The gas tax was last raised in 1989.

David Milton Pryor, 37, of Mallery Boyoton Road, Manchester was arrested on Monday (Dec. 19) on charges of domestic violence and resisting arrest following an incident at Busy Corner Truck Stop in Manchester.
Pryor, was arrested by Coffee County Deputy Antonio Frost.
According to an arrest warrant, officers were dispatched to the Busy Corner Truck Stop to a domestic violence. According to the warrant, the woman told officers that Pryor “severally beat her. The warrant states that the she sustained injuries to her face, eyes, back, her wrist and hands.
The woman was taken to Unity Medical Center for treatment.
The State Probation and Parole violated Pryor’s probation for being arrested for domestic violence. He is on the state sexual offender registry and failed to register a vehicle as required within a 48 hour period.
His bond was set at $27,500.

A North Washington Street man was arrested after an incident at his residence.
William Edward Mann, 27, of North Washington Street, Tullahoma was charged with domestic violence and his bond was set at $2,500.
On Dec. 19 Mann was accused of getting into an argument with a female and punching her several times in the face as well as choking her. A report by Officer Tommy Elliott states that he observed bruising on the woman’s eye as well as redness on her check.
Mann was booked in at the Coffee County Jail.

We have an update on story we brought you last week. Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, working alongside investigators from the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office, have arrested and charged a Murfreesboro man in connection to a homicide earlier this month in the Shelbyville area.
At the request of 17th District Attorney General Rob Carter, TBI Agents joined authorities in Bedford County in investigating the circumstances leading to December 2nd death of Timothy Perkins in his home on Highway 231 North. During the course of the investigation, authorities developed information leading to Jeremy Fleming age 27 as the individual responsible for the crime.
On December 7th, authorities arrested Fleming in Florida on an unrelated charge. On Monday evening, after waiving extradition back to Tennessee, an Agent served Fleming with a warrant charging him with one count of Criminal Homicide. At last report Fleming was being held at the Bedford County Jail on $1,000,000 bond.

The more than 181,000 Tennesseans who receive Social Security benefits and thousands who receive Medicare could see cuts if new rules and leadership at the federal level are put in place. New budget rules proposed for Congress could bring deep, automatic cuts to benefit programs for seniors who had been exempt from those kinds of cuts until now.
House budget chair Tom Price has said he would like to see reductions in Social Security and Medicare benefits.
David Reich, senior fellow with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said Price has proposed strict caps on all spending that would kick in if the deficit goes up, even due to tax cuts.
Reich asked, “What if Congress decides to enact large additional tax cuts?” “His document said we really shouldn’t exempt anything.”
Price is strongly opposed to many kinds of federal spending, and has said the government cannot afford current programs. President-elect Donald Trump selected Price to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services. Additionally, Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s choice for budget chief, also has stated he wants to cut Social Security and Medicare.
Reich said Price’s proposal is slanted strongly in favor of tax cuts, even to the extent of possibly cutting seniors’ benefits to pay for them. Medicare and Social Security are both popular, and have their own dedicated sources of revenue. As a result, they have been largely exempt from recent congressional tax and spending fights.
And Reich said under the current ‘pay as you go’ budget rules, Congress does not allow itself to increase spending or cut taxes without offsetting the cost. He said Price would break both precedents.
“In place of that, he has this whole series of restrictions on spending only,” he said. “None of them operates on the revenue side at all.”
Trump has said he wants to cut corporate and individual taxes. Analysts have said his plan would increase the deficit and mostly benefit the wealthy. Trump also has said he would oppose Social Security benefit cuts. But Reich said one problem with automatic reductions is they bypass much of the normal debate.
“You wouldn’t say, ‘Well, this is how we want to change Medicare’ or ‘how we want to change Medicaid’ or veterans benefits,'” he explained. “And indeed the limits could be set very low, to try to force reductions.”
It’s unclear what will happen to Price’s proposed legislation if he moves to the executive branch. Reich said in any case, it may face opposition in the Senate.

Monday morning Manchester Firefighters responded to a structure fire on Rodgers Drive. Manchester Fire Chief George Chambers said that firemen did an outstanding job at locating the fire, which was hidden in the attic space above one of the bedrooms. When crews entered the home, there was light smoke conditions and no heat from the fire.
Crews utilized thermal imaging cameras and were able to first locate the fire outside the house in the A/C unit and then inside one of the bedrooms in the attic space.
Fire Chief Chambers added that crews did a great job of protecting the room from water or further fire damage.
Manchester Police Department and Coffee County EMS provided exterior support.