Jonathan "Wes" GreeneWe saw this east of our office in north Springdale.
Posted by NWADG on Wednesday, March 25, 2015
A former Signal Mountain Middle-High School teacher who resigned in 2009 after being indicted on drug charges has been arrested on a drug charge again.
Jonathan "Wes" Greene, 30, was charged last week with possession of a schedule 2 drug in Athens, Tenn.
He also had an active warrant in Hamilton County, though Athens police Officer Jeremy Bowman, who arrested Greene, said he was unsure of the warrant's contents.
Calls to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office to find out what the charges on the warrant were not returned Thursday.
Attempts to reach Greene on Thursday were unsuccessful.
On Nov. 10, Bowman went to a Mexican restaurant in Athens on a call of a man refusing to pay his bill, according to a police report.
When he arrived, Bowman talked to Greene, who said he was eating with two others who left without paying. Greene said he didn't have enough money to pay the whole bill but was trying to contact someone to come and pay, the report said.
Greene kept reaching into his pocket and was acting nervously, Bowman said in the report, and tried to place a small piece of rolled-up aluminum foil in his wallet.
When Bowman asked Greene what the roll was, he said it was pills he had a prescription for, but that he knew it was illegal to carry them in the manner he was doing, the report said. Greene was taken into custody, and the pills were taken to the Athens Police Department.
In June 2009, Greene was indicted in Hamilton County on charges of criminal conspiracy, theft over $10,000, unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell and fraud, according to court documents. His next court date on the charges is Dec. 2 in Criminal Court, records show.
Court documents in this matter stated that Greene fraudulently obtained and sold 8,500 hydrocodone tablets and 1,000 Xanax tablets. The drugs had a street value of $90,000.