'In-cahoots' with a former Isbell 'crony' may be the worst decision Sheriff Tommy "Whitey" Jones ever made--"We are judged by the company we keep"
POST A SIGN-GET A BADGE
It's as if the lines had become blurred--was the SDS gun store part of the the Monroe County Sheriff's Dept, did SDS take advantage of Sheriff Tommy Jones' lack of experience? One senior law enforcement official said that "Yes, they did take advantage of his inexperience." Tommy Jones deals with the first major scandal since he was appointed as Sheriff--a call to TV 6 and 8 in Knoxville exposed what some saw coming over a year ago. Self Defense Solutions appeared to make appointed Sheriff Tommy Jones their own "special darling"... Selling a large number of firearms from the evidence room to a business owned by a former Isbell crony raised questions of illegal or unethical transactions...exactly how close were the sheriff's ties to the gun store?...Sheriff Jones was quoted as saying "We're not in the storage business." That is one of the most 'absurd' public comments you will ever hear from the head of a law enforcement agency. Seehttp://www.iape.org/ which offers classes, manuals, and guides or PTAC...
DON G. CHAREST
...When interim Sheriff Tommy Jones was appointed as Sheriff by the board of commissioners on 12/9/2014--the Madisonville, TN gun store owners of Self-Defense Solutions immediately went on a "charm offensive" showering him with congratulatory 'high fives', and posting a "Congrats Tommy" sign on Hwy 411--Tommy soon developed a close relationship with Don Charest, part-owner of the store, who was again handed a reserve-officer badge, just like in the Tellico Plains-Bill Isbell days. An appearance of impropriety: former police chief Bill Isbell and the former head of the civilian Tellico Plains police force, (Don Charest), had been terminated at the same time by Mayor Roger Powers--former Mayor Powers was faced with a 'failure of trust issue' with Isbell and Charest, which later involved an investigation by the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, over missing money from police fundraisers, guns, and drugs.
News 8 reporters asked co-owner of Self Defense Solutions store Ray Kough, if this was the first time they bought guns from the Sheriff: watch video and see if you think he answered truthfully.
A former Sheriff in Westmoreland County was charged with giving pay to play police badges to political cronies in ex-change for political contributions--one of the people who received a reserve officer badge, showed it to a state trooper after being pulled over for speeding--the state trooper added a charge of impersonating a deputy sheriff.
Judge John Kerry Blackwood, who has tried high profile cases throughout Tennessee, called this case the most bizarre thing that he has seen in his career as a judge. During the Christian-Newsom case, Judge Blackwood publicly scolded D A Randy Nichols, see DA Nichols gets an 'ass chewing' from Judge Blackwood. What started as a feud in social media by local Mountain City TN residents, resulted in the brutal slaying of a married couple, and lengthy prison sentences for four others. An elaborate scheme of deception was uncovered through careful examination of the family's computer, phone messages, and texts. Authorities were able to show that a fake profile on social media, described as a 'Chris' was actually Jenelle Potter, the daughter of Barbara and Marvin Potter--who were both convicted in the murders along with Jenelle and her boyfriend Jamie Curd.
Catch the entire episode on ABC's 20/20, before your next hateful text message puts you in a spot that you will forever regret. Forensic Linguistics, and careful analysis of 'ironic repetition' in emails and text messages played a major role in solving this case and many others--Journal of the Humanities--Legal questions involve language, for instance, who wrote a ransom note--What is the meaning of a phrase in a contract?...To understand Law, one must understand language.
Is there a 'reasonable expectation' of privacy while in a public restroom?
When Robert Durst was heard during the making of an HBO documentary saying that he "killed them all" during a bathroom break... he provided law enforcement enough to get himself arrested last Saturday.
In United States vs. Hill, the U.S Court of Appeals in the Eight Circuit recently held that under some circumstances, there is no continuing Fourth Amendment right to privacy in a public restroom... "As a result of investigative leads and additional evidence that has come to light in the past year, investigators have identified Robert Durst as the person responsible for Susan Berman's death," Los Angeles Police said in a statement.
Special Agent William Hagmaier describes how in the homicide investigation of Federal Judge Robert Vance, investigators were able to get permission from the court to glean information from Walter Leroy Moody who 'at times' talked to himself.
