SEVIERVILLE â A TBI investigation resulted in charges of rape of a child and sexual battery against a Sevier County man.
Hunter Ray Monday, 20, of Seymour, turned himself in at the Sevier County Jail and is being held there in lieu of $100,000 bond. He is charged with rape of a child, aggravated sexual battery and sexual battery.
District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn asked the state law enforcement agency to start an investigation in March into allegations of a sexual assault involving a minor.
TBI investigators uncovered evidence that Monday had assaulted two juveniles, according to the release.
They did not provide additional information Wednesday about the allegations or the evidence against Monday.
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SEVIERVILLE — TBI is investigating after an inmate died Thursday at the Sevier County Jail, and the man’s mother said she is still waiting on details about how he died.
SEVIERVILLE â A Cookeville man who was in the Sevier County Jail for assault and violation of probation upped the ante on his charges by threatening a judge, an assistant district attorney, and a public defender, according to TBI.
Tyler Dakota Matthews, 25, of Cookeville, had been in the Sevier County Jail since Nov. 10, according to jail records. He was charged with violation of probation and three counts of assault; his bond was set at $6,000.
Now heâs facing $50,000 bond, because he allegedly sent letters from the jail threatening court officials.
The indictments allege he threatened Circuit Court Judge Jim Gass, public defender Mendi Winstead, and assistant district attorney general Ron Newcomb.
SEVIERVILLE â Sevier County Commission voted Monday to move ahead with a lawsuit that tags major pharmaceutical companies as drug dealers and seeks compensation for the damage they have caused.
District attorneys throughout the state joined in 2017 to file civil suits that used the Tennessee Drug Dealer Liability Act to target pharmaceutical manufacturers like Purdue Pharma.
The lawsuits, filed in Campbell County, say the companies were marketing prescription painkillers to vulnerable patients and continuing to do so after those patients became addicted.
They have been called âBaby Doeâ lawsuits, because they are filed on behalf of infants harmed by their mothersâ drug use during pregnancy.