Franklin County Sheriff’s Office personnel apprehended a Belvidere resident on a Federal warrant Friday morning. On Friday June 6th at approximately 11:45am, Franklin County Sheriff’s deputies placed Dustin Gerald Don Bohn of 5331 Six Mile Board Road in custody on a Federal warrant that citied Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution as the charge. Mr. Bohn, a white/male age 23, did produce a driver’s license bearing an Arizona address. The underlying charge on the warrant did state Mr. Bohn had been indicted in Maricopa County, AZ. for sexual assault. Mr. Bohn is currently being held in the Franklin County jail...

The Tennessee Highway Patrol is urging motorists not to leave children or pets in unattended vehicles, especially as summer temperatures begin to rise. Preliminary reports indicate that eight children have already died this year due to heat stroke. None of those fatalities were in Tennessee. According to the latest statistics, there were 44 heat stroke deaths involving children in the United States in 2013. Experts say the temperature inside a car can reach potentially deadly levels within minutes on a typical summer day. Tennessee is among 20 states that have laws that prohibit leaving a child unattended in a...

The popular ACT college admissions exam is broadening how it reports students’ scores. The exam’s traditional 36-point scale remains unchanged. But, starting next year, students will also receive an ACT score on two new “readiness indicators” reflecting how they did in terms of career readiness and understanding complex text, the nonprofit testing organization announced Friday. A new category will offer students a separate score on STEM performance – short for science, technology, engineering and math – that combines the science and math portions. A second new category in the area of language arts combines how they did on the...

The 2014 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival begins next Thursday (June 13) and that means local law enforcement will be out working extra hours. As always several people will be arrested for drug possession and more. According to figures released by the Coffee County Circuit Court Clerk’s office, Bonnaroo fines and collections for the 2013 event generated $621,127.75. The money breaks down to $97,235 paid to the sheriff’s department drug fund, the drug task force collected $143,296, and Manchester Police Department drug fund received $50,950. The collections also include $52,024 paid to State of Tennessee fees, which includes litigation...

A Grizzard Street man was arrested Tuesday, June 3, after a search by investigators from the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department and the Tullahoma Police Department. Acting on information, the officers allegedly found 15 oz of marijuana, scales, packaging materials as well as four guns, one of which had been reported stolen. According to sheriff’s investigator James Sherrill, when police entered the residence they allegedly saw Steve Clark, 18, with the alleged stolen gun in the waistband of his pants and he was counting money allegedly from drug sells. Clark was charged with manufacture/sell/delivery of a controlled substance. He is...

Dustin Byers and Nathan Childers, two Grundy County Jail inmates who escaped on June 2, have been apprehended. The two were taken into custody, along with Kayla Eubanks, who aided in the escape, in Sevierville. They were caught when Childers’ attempted to fill a prescription at a Sevierville pharmacy. When the pharmacy called a McMinnville pharmacy to obtain authorization to refill the prescription they were informed that Childers was an escaped convict and wanted in Grundy County. Authorities were notified and when Childers returned to pick up his prescription they were taken into custody. All three will face charges...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) recently announced the nationwide availability of a key provision of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, aimed at reducing child hunger: the Community Eligibility Provision. Beginning July 1, 2014, eligible school districts in Tennessee will be able to provide free school meals to students in high poverty areas. The Community Eligibility Provision alleviates the burden on families in Tennessee by eliminating household applications for school meals programs, while helping eligible districts reduce costs associated with collecting and processing those applications. “The Community Eligibility Provision provides more eligible children with access...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation released its “Domestic Violence 2011-2013” study. The report analyzes crime data submitted by the state’s law enforcement agencies to the Tennessee Incident Based Reporting System from 2011 to 2013. Among the report’s findings: • Simple Assault was, by far, the most frequently reported offense, accounting for 68.8% of all domestic violence offenses. • Females were almost three times more likely to be victimized than males in domestic incidents in Tennessee. • Juveniles accounted for approximately 10% of domestic violence victims each year from 2011 to 2013. • In the time period analyzed, domestic violence victims...