Just how deep does Knox County corruption go?
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Round 1
Seems Knox County's narcotics unit was apparently running their own little slush fund—except instead of buying informant tips, they were buying themselves a lavish lifestyle.
A joint TBI and FBI investigation just dropped indictments on ten current and former Knox County Sheriff's Office personnel for allegedly turning the narco unit's credit card into their personal Amazon Prime account.
We're talking over $300,000 in unauthorized credit card charges between 2010 and 2018, plus another $30,000 in seized cash that somehow never made it to the evidence locker.
Among those indicted: Aaron Yarnell, Curtis Nathan Cole, Lake Lowry, Rocky Lowery, Tim Isaacs, John Hopkins, James Hammond, civilian Mike Kidd, and (here's where it gets even spicier) J.J. Jones and current Chief David Amburn.
Both of those guys just ran for sheriff in the May 5th Republican primary and lost to Brent Gibson, who's now cruising into the job unopposed.
Most are facing charges including conspiracy, theft of property over $250,000, and theft of services over $60,000.
Eight were taken into custody Wednesday, and all are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
But let's be real—when the TBI and the FBI need eight years to investigate fraud that allegedly ended in 2018, you start to wonder if they were waiting for somebody to retire first.
Conveniently, the indictments dropped *after* the election, because nothing says "accountability" like letting the voters decide before the feds step in.
Round 2
A routine traffic stop in Knoxville turned into a full-blown narcotics investigation when 34-year-old Dartavia Smith-Wilson decided to hand officers a bagful of the devil's lettuce before they'd even asked.
As he was being pulled over by KPD for speeding, Smith-Wilson pulled into his home address and immediately tried to exit the vehicle—which is never a great look.
When officers told him to get back in, he handed them a plastic baggie of green and admitted he didn't have a valid driver's license.
A records check confirmed he's a convicted felon.
Then, if that wasn't enough trouble, a K9 unit alerted to more narcotics in the car, and officers found another bag of weed plus $2,000 in cash.
Oh, and on top of THAT, his five-year-old child was in the backseat during all this.
Family came to pick up the kid, and while officers escorted them inside to grab the child's belongings, they spotted a handgun in plain view.
and if THAT wasn't enough trouble, they got a search warrant and found approximately 40 grams of fancy nails, 54 grams of ganja, seven grams of math, a handgun (I hope it was a Smith-Wesson), ammo, and various drug paraphernalia.
Mr. Smith-Wilson with the Smith-n-Wesson was promptly arrested and charged with his various crimes.
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Round 3
Farbeit for me to speak on sports matters, because (just between you, me, and the fence post) I don't even know how to play football
That being said, The Tennessee Titans game schedule was just announced.
But in a unique way.
Instead of the same old boring "here's our schedule. Mark the calendar" post
They posted a video where they found bad lookalikes of players coaches of owners of teams on the schedule and posted a compilation
Honestly I couldn't tell any of them apart, so it couldn't have been THAT bad 🤷♂️
That was your Tennessee news roundup.
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