Two children are rescued after being kidnapped by their non-custodial father.
Officials with the Dandridge Police Department say they were notified about a stolen vehicle out of Knoxville yesterday (Wednesday) morning. The suspect, identified as Justin Odum, kidnapped his two children, ages 9 and 6, who he did not have custody of and a sergeant reportedly saw the car on Highway 92 and tried to stop it and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office joined the chase and stopped the vehicle, Odum into custody. He was booked and now faces multiple charges out of Jefferson and Knox counties.
Knoxville Police are investigating the drowning death of a 71-year-old woman at Inskip Pool.
An officer was in the area August 22nd when he heard voices coming from inside the pool area and found lifeguards giving a woman CPR. The officer reportedly helped until crews with the Knoxville Fire Department and AMR arrived.
The woman, who has not been identified, was taken to the hospital where she died that night.
Officials says the pool was being rented by the Sertoma Center at the time.
The City of Knoxville also provided a statement on what happened:
The City and its Parks and Recreation aquatics team are incredibly saddened by the death of a community member last week following an Aug. 22 private event at Inskip Pool. The City and staff have offered condolences to the woman’s family and to the organization that had rented the pool.
Out of respect for the family’s privacy, the City is not releasing the name of the woman who died or the name of the group that had rented the pool for its private event.
According to witnesses, City lifeguards recognized the woman was in the water and in distress and immediately entered the pool to perform a rescue. They pulled the woman from the water and performed life-saving measures, and the woman was breathing as the ambulance arrived at the scene. Tragically, the woman died later at the hospital. City of Knoxville
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A Lenoir City man has been indicted for first-degree murder in the death of a woman in January in Knoxville.
Knoxville Police Department officials say the indictment comes after KPD officers took 26-year-old Reginald Depriest into custody on January 5; they say Depriest had turned himself in.
According to KPD, Depriest killed 39-year-old Andrea Moore at a Western Heights apartment in the 1400 block of W. Oldham Avenue.
The investigation was prompted by a call saying there was a body inside the apartment. At the time, police called the death “suspicious in nature.”
Update: Detectives have recovered Raileigh Capps, the missing twelve-year-old. She is being taken to a local hospital for a check-up. The investigation remains open, and charges will be forthcoming later.
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued an Endangered Child Alert for a missing Knox County girl.
TBI says 12 year-old Raileigh Capps was last seen Tuesday evening in the area of Crippen Corner Lane in Knoxville.
Capps is white with light brown hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing grey Mickey Mouse sweat pants, a white T-Shirt and a brown fuzzy jacket. She also has a white rose tattoo on her left forearm and nose and navel piercings.
Authorities say she has no runaway history.
Those with information on the whereabouts of Raileigh Marie Capps are being asked to please call the Knox County Sheriff’s Office at 865-215-2243, 911 or 1-800-TBI-FIND.
Covenant Health Park is the name of Knoxville’s new $114-million multi-use stadium.
Boyd Sports, LLC, and Covenant Health have reached an agreement for the naming rights to the new stadium which will feature 7,500 seats, create an estimated 400 jobs, and be the home of Smokies baseball, One Knoxville Soccer Club and many other events.
Branding for the stadium is expected to revealed today (Wednesday).
The Smokies will play their inaugural game in the stadium against the Chattanooga Lookouts next year on April 15th.
The Knox County Sheriff’s Office is asking for your help to find a missing 12 year-old girl.
Raileigh Capps is white with light brown hair and brown eyes. She has no runaway history and has a white rose tattoo on her left forearm and nose and navel piercings.
She was last seen wearing grey Mickey Mouse sweat pants, a white T-Shirt and a brown fuzzy jacket.
We have her photo on our website, newstalk 987.com. If you have any information please contact KCSO at 865-215-2243.
The Knox County Sheriff’s Office responding to a threat at South-Doyle High School today (Tuesday).
Kimberly Glenn with KCSO says the Major Crimes Unit and Juvenile Detectives were on the scene and later said the building had been cleared.
Knox County Schools did confirm that the school was on lockdown today (Tuesday).
This comes after Sheriff Tom Spangler’s announcement a few weeks ago that school violence would NOT be tolerated.
(Story courtesy of WVLT) One week into Knox County’s 2024-2025 school year, Sheriff Tom Spangler is reinforcing just how seriously his office is taking school security.
False calls are among Spangler’s top concerns. The Knox County sheriff said his agency responded to 117 threats last year, making 41 arrests. The Knoxville Police Department’s story is similar; officers responded to 63 threats last year at 30 schools across the district.
The sheriff wants parents and students to know he’s taking false calls seriously for the new school year.
“Unfortunately we know something’s going to come about, we know someone is going to make a false call,” Spangler said. ”If it happens and if you’re caught, we’ve made it very clear. I’m going to sound redundant, but it’s that important to me that we hold these individuals accountable.”
A false call is a severe thing to Spangler, who said using resources to respond to bogus threats puts the rest of the public at risk. Officers rushing to a school can be a danger to people on the road and cannot respond to real emergencies.
It’s become such a problem that the state has stepped in, upping false call charges from misdemeanors to felonies. Getting caught would mean a student goes a year without their license (or has to wait a year before getting it if they don’t already have it).
It’s something Spangler is grateful for.
”It’s very much a start, and I’m thankful they added some accountability,” he said.
Locally, students are facing higher repercussions as well. A source familiar with the Knox County juvenile court system, who chose to go unidentified, told WVLT News that kids accused of making threats will face the “highest extent of the law.”
Spangler’s message to parents: Make sure your students know what making a fake threat could mean for them and their futures.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Southeastern Conference released the 2024 SEC Cross Country Preseason Coaches’ Poll on Tuesday with the Lady Vols tabbed to finish fourth in the league.
Points for the men’s poll were awarded on a 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13 basis, while points for the women’s poll were awarded on a 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15 basis. Coaches were not permitted to vote for their own teams.
Florida earned nine first-place votes in the women’s poll, while Alabama had seven. Arkansas rounded out the top three on the women’s side.
Tennessee enters its first season under head coach Justin Duncan but returns a deep and talented roster that placed third in the SEC in 2023 before winning the NCAA South Region title and finishing sixth in the nation at the NCAA Cross Country Championships.
Four of the Lady Vols’ top five finishers from the NCAA meet return in 2024, including Ashley Jones, Jillian Candelino, Rachel Sutliff and Caroline Lyerly. The foursome helped lead UT to the program’s best finish at the national meet since 1989.
At the region meet, all four runners garnered All-South Region accolades en route to capturing their first team title on the grass since 2005.
At the SEC Cross Country Championships, the Lady Vols placed third with Jones and Sutliff earning All-SEC second-team recognition. Candelino and Lyerly landed on the All-SEC freshman team for their performances at the conference meet.
Tennessee’s season opener is slated for Friday, Aug. 30 at home at Cherokee Farms Cross Country Course. The women will open at 8 a.m. ET with a 3-mile run, followed by the men at 8:30 a.m. running a 4-mile.
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) UPDATE: We’re learning more now about a “domestic incident” that led to the arrest Monday of a Knoxville man.
Knoxville Police Department officials say the incident occurred in West Knoxville.
KPD says the girlfriend of 20-year-old Omar Amengol Cortes told police he shoved her out of her car and drove away with her four-year-old daughter.
Police later found the child and the car, which was abandoned.
Cortes was taken into custody outside of West Town Mall; he was charged with especially aggravated kidnapping.
ORIGINAL STORY: The Knoxville Police Department announces the successful apprehension of a man involved this (Monday) morning in a domestic incident involving a missing child.
KPD says a man identified only as Omar at this time, was taken into custody around noon after leaving the scene of a domestic incident in the victim’s car with the victim’s child inside the vehicle.
A post on social media stated that police were searching for Omar in the area of 600 Buckey Drive.
According to KPD, the child has since been found safe and the car was recovered.
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