By DAVID MELSON - dmelson@t-g.com
Charges were filed against a suspect accused of firing a shotgun during an argument Sunday night on El Bethel Road.
Andrea Lee Cantrell, 31, is charged with reckless endangerment and aggravated assault, according to Bedford County Sheriff’s Office incident reports. She was held on $25,000 bond.
The victim told investigators a male friend of Cantrell hit him in the mouth with the gun’s muzzle outside her home during an argument over money. The friend has not been charged.
Both men were on the ground fighting after the victim grabbed the gun and threw it aside, the victim said. Eventually the victim hit the male attacker in the face with a jack handle.
At that point Cantrell grabbed the gun and it fired, the reports say. The victim said Cantrell fired at him as he was going to his truck, which he drove directly to the Sheriff’s Office. He was not struck by a bullet.
Cantrell at first denied having a gun, then told a deputy she picked it up to take inside her home and it accidentally fired.
She feared getting in trouble and threw the shotgun out the window of her vehicle on El Bethel Road while driving with her friend to Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital for treatment of injuries from the fight, said one of the reports. The victim was told by an emergency medical technician he needed stitches for a cut lip but refused treatment.
The gun was recovered by a deputy.
Drug charges
•Drugs were found in a vehicle after the driver allegedly evaded a Shelbyville police officer during a vehicle pursuit Sunday morning.
Abigail May Thomas Utz, 42, who is listed in the Bedford County Jail intake report as homeless and from Shelbyville, was allegedly driving without a seat belt when spotted by Officer Brandi Merlo on Dover Street.
Merlo said she saw Utz grab the belt after seeing the patrol car. Utz allegedly sped up when Merlo began pursuit with lights and siren on narrow Shelby Circle.
Utz’s vehicle was allegedly “almost on two wheels” at one point — with a bag being thrown out — as a short pursuit ended at the end of a wooded trail off Dover Street, Merlo’s report said.
Officer James Sharp located Utz a few minutes later in a wooded area nearby. Officers searched the bag and found smaller bags containing methamphetamine, marijuana and suboxone strips along with syringes Utz allegedly said contained more methamphetamine.
Utz was charged with possession of schedule II and III drugs and paraphernalia, drving while in possession of a schedule II drug, evading by motor vehicle and violation of the seat belt law. She was held on $100,000 bond.
•Marijuana was confiscated from a vehicle after a Bedford County deputy noticed an expired license plate and made a traffic stop Saturday on Highway 231 North.
Hannah Louise Green, 22, of Manchester admitted ownership of two bags, containing a total of 3.67 grams of marijuana, and other drug paraphernalia found in the vehicle, Deputy Hamp Vaughn’s report said.
Green was charged with possession of schedule VI drug, possession of drug paraphernalia. She was released on $5,500 bond.
•A suspect who told police he was living in his vehicle on Cowan Avenue was arrested shortly after midnight Sunday morning when he allegedly dropped methamphetamine in a pill bottle onto the ground.
Shelbyville officers were called to investigate several people allegedly sleeping in their vehicles and blocking the roadway. Thomas Wayne Owens, 43, Cowan Avenue, is accused of dropping the bottle as he was being patted down.
Owens was charged with possession of schedule II drug and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was held on $5,500 bond.
Thefts
•A black and white Next mountain bike was stolen between June 26 and Monday from the front yard of an Orchard Lane home.
A suspect was named and the theft is not thought to be random, a BCSO report said.
Also reported to area law enforcement:
•Three containers of fishing lures were stolen Sunday from a tackle box at Fishermen’s Park.
•The battery was stolen from a newly-purchased electric bicycle Saturday in the kitchen of an Elm Street residence, police said.
•A propane tank, lawn mower and several unspecified items were stolen during June from a shed at a home on Academy Lane, a sheriff’s office report said.
The owner named a suspect, who had been present earlier when deputies and Shelbyville police officers recovered a vehicle stolen from Van Buren County at a home on Coleman Harvey Road.
Jail intake
The following were charged since Thursday by the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office, Shelbyville Police Department, Tennessee Highway Patrol or 17th Judicial District Drug Task Force. They are only charged; guilt or innocence will be determined by the courts.
•Tanisha Nichole Anthony, 38, Midland Road; DUI (second offense), open container, possession of handgun while under the influence; released, $10,000 bond
•Jacob Austin Arnold, 25, Mapleview Drive; reckless driving, evading arrest, speeding; released, $4,000 bond
•William David Bean, 26, Old Nashville Dirt Road; possession of drug paraphernalia, speeding; released, no bond
•Michael Shawn Blackman, 43, no address available; violation of probation, show cause; held, $2,500 bond
•Makaia Latise Bowen, 20, Brooklyn Circle; driving on suspended license; released, no bond
•Chad Michael Brown, 47, Railroad Avenue; public intoxication; held, $500 bond
•Margaret Charlene Brumit, 44, Cedar Grove Road; probation revocation; released, $2,500 bond
•Joseph Wilson Buchanan, 63, Fairoak Street; DUI, implied consent, light law, due care, introducing contraband into penal institution, possession of schedule VI drug; released, $12,500 bond
•Phillip David Butler, 46, Hickory Hill Road; DUI, possession of schedule I drug, possession of schedule II drug, possession of schedule V drug, implied consent, due care, possession of drug paraphernalia; held, $30,000 bond
•Kevin Matthew Campbell, 20, Tullahoma; driving on revoked license (third offense); released, $3,000 bond
•Andrea Lee Cantrell, 31, El Bethel Road; reckless endangerment, aggravated assault; held, $25,000 bond
•Scott Elliott Colburn, 30, West Lane Street; theft of property; held, $5,000 bond
•Jesse Andrew Comstock, 37, Vine Street, Wartrace; aggravated domestic assault (two counts); held, no bond
•Timothy Dale Crawford, 52, Earnhart Street; aggravated assault, evading arrest, evading arrest by vehicle, possession of schedule II drug for resale, misuse of registration, resisting arrest, driving on suspended license; held, $100,000 bond
•Robert Paul Cross, 72, South Cannon Boulevard; DUI; released, $3,000 bond
•Jeffrey Brent Cunningham, 56, Railroad Road; driving on suspended license (third offense), registration law, failure to appear; held, $5,500 bond
•Sean Dilon Davis, 30, Murfreesboro; aggravated domestic assault; held, $5,000 bond
•Daniel Anthony Dixon, 34, Naron Road; driving on suspended license (two counts), reckless/careless driving; held, $14,000 bond
•Domingo G. Domingo Sebastian, 19, West Lane Street; no driver’s license/exhibited on demand, running stop sign; summons issued
•Benjamin Paul Drew, 36, Murfreesboro; failure to appear; released, $1,000 bond
•Brandon Lee Elam, 36, Barksdale Lane; show cause, violation of probation; released, $250 bond
•Wilmer O. Flores Alcerro, 55, Cedar River Road; hands free law, no driver’s license; released, no bond
•Mattie Louise Gibson, 40, Jack Pickle Road; failure to appear, bench warrant; held, $12,000 bond
•Jeannie M. Gordon, 35, Deer Point Road; failure to appear; held, $2,500 bond
•Rachel Gregory Gotham, 30, White Street; public intoxication; held, $1,000 bond
•Hannah Louise Green, 22, Manchester; possession of schedule VI drug, possession of drug paraphernalia; released, $5,500 bond
•Gregory B. Grier, 56, Maplewood Drive; failure to appear; released, $2,500 bond
•Joseph Roger Hedrick, 44, homeless, Shelbyville; public intoxication; held, $500 bond
•Charles Edward Johnson Jr., 51, Bugscuffle Road; aggravated assault; held, $10,000 bond
•Trevor Alexander Lovvorn, 24, Nashville; domestic assault; released, $2,500 bond
•Jared Matthew Mahaffey, 35, Lakewood; violation of probation, failure to appear; released, no bond
•Adolfo Marinero Elorza, 25, South Main Street; DUI, no driver’s license; released, $3,500 bond
•Alec Joseph McGovern, 25, Gant Road; public intoxication; held, $1,000 bond
•Alex Mendoza Lopez, 19, Russellville, Alabama; no driver’s license/exhibited on demand, disobeying traffic control device; released, $3,000 bond
•Christina Elaine Mitchell, 42, Estill Springs; violation of probation, show cause; released, $1,000 bond
•Benjamin Adam Morton, 34, South Cannon Boulevard; driving on suspended license, light law; summons issued
•Marquis D. Morton, 28, Dover Street; theft of merchandise; released, no bond
•Cane Mitchell Myers, 26, Cowan, Tennessee; public intoxication; released, $750 bond
•Lynette Eudell Noteboom, 54, Pepper Hill Road; probation revocation, driving on revoked license, light law, financial responsibility, registration violation; held, $2,500 bond
•Noel Marie Overstreet, 37, Bell Buckle-Wartrace Road; failure to appear; held, $5,000 bond
•Thomas Wayne Owens, 43, Cowan Avenue; possession of schedule II drug, possession of drug paraphernalia; held, $5,500 bond
•Patrick James Pace, 23, Christiana; evading by motor vehicle, driving on revoked license (third offense), speeding, criminal impersonation, resisting arrest, failure to appear; held, $14,000 bond
•Misty Dawn Powell, 42, Old Flat Creek School Road; failure to appear, bench warrant, bondsman surrender; held, $85,000 bond
•Stephen Douglas Prince, 60, Hillcrest Drive; violation of probation; released, $1,500 bond
•Eddie Dorris Ray, 67, Plum Hill Road; criminal trespassing; held, $500 bond
•Vanessa Robles, 18, Barksdale Lane; no driver’s license/exhibited on demand, running stop sign; summons issued
•Javier Rojas Rodriguez, 32, Wildcreek Road; DUI; released, $4,500 bond
•Amber N, Rogers, 34, Halls Mill Road; attachment; released, $500 bond
•Timothy Scott Sanders, 47, El Bethel Road; DUI, speeding, seat belt law, registration violation, financial responsibility; released, $3,000 bond
•Jacob Alexander Silva, 44, Apache Place; violation of order of protection (two counts); held, $3,000 bond
•Jared Caleb Smith, 30, Horn Lane; aggravated assault; held, $10,000 bond
•Abigail May Thomas Utz, 42, homeless, Shelbyville; evading by motor vehicle, seat belt law, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of schedule II drug, possession of schedule III drug, driving while in possession of schedule II drug; held, $100,000 bond
•Connor M. Watson, 23, East Depot Street; DUI, leaving scene of injury accident, immediate notice of accident; released, $3,500 bond
