A Catoosa County judge has dropped the criminal case against a private investigator who worked for Tonya Craft.
Eric Echols was originally charged with three counts of influencing a witness after he was hired to do work for Craft on her child custody suit against her ex-husband.
Craft was acquitted on 22 counts of various child molestation charges in May.
The charges against Echols stem from an August 2009 conversation in the father of one of Craft's alleged victims said Echols threatened him. But a transcript of the recorded conversation between Echols and the father shows the men having a polite conversation.
The charges against Echols were dropped after he made a request for his indictment to be quashed on the grounds that there was no proof to the threats he allegedly made, according to court documents.
See tomorrow's Times Free Press for complete details.