Angry Comments on Topix may be linked to the Isbell/Charest cartel

Angry comments posted in the local Topix website within the last few months; include some that are outright threats. The internet rants display an intolerance for the right of freedom of expression: as in, taking photographs, videos, or merely writing and making comments on issues that the mainstream media is reluctant to cover.

September marks 6 yr. Anniversary

Many Coker Creek TN. residents were surprised when it was learned that Alabama transplant Don Charest was wearing a Tellico Plains Police Uniform in 2010. Co-Founder of the Coker Creek Welcome Center, Charest had previously been involved in the financial planning business in Charest Company, LLP-Financial Planners with his wife Linda and their son Jonathan--not Police work...Don Charest is one of the least likely individuals that anyone would have ever imagined in a police uniform, unless there was a motive and opportunity.

In September of 2005, during the initial days and months of local resident Franny Graham's disappearance--(Graham lived less than a 1/4 mile from the Coker Creek Welcome Center)...Charest and his Welcome Center staff never even posted one 'missing persons poster'--in or around the small contract facility post office/welcome center--that they operate with the help of government grants... Even more surprising--the newly hired postal clerk, a recent move-in in 2006, said she was never told of the Franny Graham disappearance.

There is clear evidence that former Tellico Plains chief of police Bill Isbell's association with Don Charest, was in-part, what caused former Tellico Plains mayor Roger Powers to 'go ballistic' ...when it was discovered someone had given Don Charest the keys to the Tellico Plains Police station, and issued him a police uniform.