Mark Cash’s father is Tommy Cash, also a country singer.
In court Monday, the teen-ager testified that Mark Cash had sex with her at various times. Cash testified the child took advantage of him and that alcohol played a factor.
Barrett said he will appeal. Cash will serve at least 30 percent of his sentence before he becomes eligible for parole.
Bobby C. Davenport, 20, of Murfreesboro was charged with burglarizing a storage shed owned by Circuit Court Judge James Clayton. He was accused of taking the judge’s $200 mountain bike May 20. Police quoted Davenport as saying he did not know the bike belonged to the judge.
The judge had sentenced Davenport to a 180-day workhouse sentence after he pleaded guilty in January to aggravated assault, theft and forgery.
Detective Chris Guthrie said Davenport reacted this way after learning the judge owned the bike: His head went down in his hands, he said.
Davenport, who was released from the workhouse in May, is jailed awaiting a June 19 court hearing.
The bike was recovered.
He faces one count of felony murder and one count of first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old David Chung of Vestavia Hills.
Judge Allen Wallace set a Nov. 12 trial date. A hearing to consider any further motions in the case was set for Aug. 12.
If convicted of first-degree murder, Simpkins won’t face a death penalty because he was 17 when the slaying occurred, said Assistant District Attorney George Sexton. He could receive a life sentence with possible parole.
Simpkins already is serving a 35-year sentence at the Southeast Regional Correctional Center in the 1995 stabbing death of Nashville Electric Service worker Van Phillips, 32. Chung’s body was found in Humphreys County by a turkey hunter about two months after he disappeared on Jan. 21, 1994. Chung’s car was found in Humphreys County the day after he disappeared.
Dennis Peevyhouse, a state trooper for more than 23 years, resigned rather than face a due process hearing before supervisors at the Department of Safety.
Peevyhouse, 46, of Jackson, was accused of taking home pot confiscated during his work with the Governor’s Task Force on Marijuana Eradication, theft of federal funds, making unauthorized claims for meals, lodging and overtime pay and unauthorized use of departmental vehicles, according to records in his personnel file.
The records do not say how much money was involved. Most of the accusations involved overtime he claimed.
Peevyhouse has denied the claims to investigators and in phone interviews with The Associated Press. The charges are the result of a vindictive woman, Peevyhouse said.
Clifford Lester Higgins, 37, Clover Ave., Cookeville, was airlifted from the scene of the accident on Mine Lick Creek Road to University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville about 16 hours after the accident.
Investigators said Higgins was driving a 1986 Chrysler New Yorker that ran off the road and came to rest in a creek. There were no skid marks at the scene.
A Putnam County Jail work crew discovered the wrecked car, not easily visible from the road, and alerted emergency personnel. Higgins was disoriented and so seriously injured he was unable to tell authorities what had happened to cause the accident.
Sandy Dodson told police she was taking her 16-month-old daughter to the doctor in Chattanooga when she noticed her vehicle started shimmying and shaking. She left the vehicle at a repair garage and later was informed by the mechanic that the vehicle had been tampered with.
The mechanic told her two lug nuts fell off in his hand when he checked them, and that the other two were very loose.
Authorities believe the tampering incident is related to complaints the newspaper received over recent news stories.
It’s not because we’ve had a drug problem - we haven’t, said Upperman football coach Jimmy Maynard. We’re doing it to help the kids. It’s a deterrent. We’re not trying to catch anybody. In fact, we hope we don’t catch anyone. Under the new policy, all Upperman athletes and cheerleaders will be subject to drug testing at the time of their annual pre-participation physical. This is the only time testing will be announced. After that, all participants will be subject to random testing throughout the year without prior notice.
Amy Brookmyer spoke with police after being picked up by a bail bond company this week when she didn’t appear in court to answer a shoplifting charge. She is being held in Montgomery County Jail in Clarksville.
After investigating her story Thursday, police in Goodlettsville, Tenn., just north of Nashville said they could find no evidence of gambling debts by Yong Meadows and no sign of 4-year-old Lucy Meadows. Lt. Harry Bell said Yong Meadows said she didn’t know how to play cards.
The mother reported Lucy missing July 25 from Rivergate Mall in Goodlettsville. She said she last saw the girl, then age 3, as they were getting out of their car in the mall’s parking lot.
Brookmyer, who has said she and her mother were estranged, told police that Lucy was being cared for by an older Korean woman, but that she did not know her name. She said her mother’s debts stemmed from a gambling game played with Korean cards. Bell said he and an FBI agent interviewed people in a Korean community in Hopkinsville and visited businesses where the card game is played.
Larry D. Vanbrunt, 42, is charged with false imprisonment, disorderly conduct and assault on an officer.
Police said Vanbrunt began cursing and causing a disturbance Wednesday shortly after boarding a Greyhound bus in Chattanooga that was bound for Kansas City, Mo. After the driver, Herman Spane, told the man to stop cursing, Vanbrunt said that he ought to hold everyone hostage for several days and to stop the bus in Cleveland, said Detective John Dailey of the Cleveland Police Department.
After Spane stopped the bus in Cleveland, which is 30 miles east of Chattanooga, Vanbrunt waved a cane and said he wouldn’t let the driver leave, police said. Vanbrunt also is accused of swinging the cane at police officers who had come to arrest him.
It wasn’t immediately clear why Vanbrunt had a cane. Vanbrunt has a June 6 hearing in Bradley County General Sessions Court.
Randall Dee Kimbrough, 39, of Greenbrier, Tenn., apparently had been camping out behind the singer’s home on an island in the Harpeth River, which runs behind Judd’s home and a small cabin on her property.
Authorities would not say how long Kimbrough had been camping out before being arrested Sunday.
Judd’s husband, Arch Kelly, called police when he spotted the man standing on the porch of their cabin.
Mr. Kelly approached the subject and asked him what he was doing, police reports said. The subject said that he wanted to leave a present for Wynonna.
Police did not identify the present. Kimbrough is being held on $1,000 bond in the Williamson County Criminal Justice Center Jail with a hearing June 3 on a charge of criminal trespassing.
Hickman County Sheriff Dwight England has issued a warrant for the arrest of Robert Fultz who told authorities last week that his wife, Tracy Fultz, 23, was missing. Thursday, hikers found the woman’s body in a wooded area five miles west of Ashland City. Authorities believe she was the victim of a homicide, but aren’t sure yet of the cause of her death.
England now wants to charge Fultz with arson after the family’s home was damaged by a fire Friday.
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