East TN couple accused of stabbing neighbor who called police about loud sex

Johnny Allen Richards and Erin Brooke Lawson
Johnny Allen Richards and Erin Brooke Lawson
photo Johnny Allen Richards and Erin Brooke Lawson

ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. - A Hawkins County man might have been better off turning up the volume on his TV on Tuesday evening rather than calling police about a loud disturbance in the apartment next door, which turned out to be a man and woman having sex.

When the neighbor called police on that same couple a second time, the couple went to his door after police had gone and allegedly beat and stabbed the neighbor.

The couple, Johnny Allen Richards, 33, and Erin Brooke Lawson, 32, are two of the Hawkins County Jail's most frequent guests.

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