Three arrested on meth charges
Hamilton County sheriff’s deputies stopped a vehicle on Hixson Pike Thursday and charged three men with manufacturing methamphetamine.
Randy “Lee” Morgan, 21, Robert Stanley Vaughan, 21, and Jacob Rose, 19, were arrested, according to Janice Atkinson, spokeswoman for the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office.
Morgan and Rose were charged with promoting the process to manufacture methamphetamine and felony possession of drug paraphernalia, she said. They also were charged with unlawful possession or carrying of a weapon after a .45-caliber pistol and brass knuckles were found, she said.
Vaughan was charged with promoting the process to manufacture methamphetamine and felony possession of drug paraphernalia, Atkinson said.
The three were arrested after components used to make methamphetamine were discovered in their vehicle during a traffic stop in the 8400 block of Hixson Pike, Atkinson said.
The arrests are part of an ongoing methamphetamine investigation in and around the Sequoyah Hills/Dallas Oaks area of Hamilton County, she said.
Police arrest 15 in prostitution sting
Chattanooga police arrested 15 suspects on prostitution-related charges.
During a two-day operation on Oct. 6-7, investigators used the Internet to lure suspects, said Officer Rebecca Royval, police spokeswoman.
Arrests are:
For prostitution within 1.5 miles of a school – Amber Gaston, 27, Jessica Holiday, 24, and Lolita Lawrence, 43.
For prostitution within 1.5 miles of a school and possession of marijuana – Jade Perkins, 24.
For prostitution within 1.5 miles of a school and promoting prostitution – Angel Montigny, 22.
For promoting prostitution within 1.5 miles of a school – Donald Calhoun, 50, and Mark Farmer, 49.
For patronizing prostitution within 1.5 miles of a school – Lanny Cooper, 59, Brandon Hudgins, 25, Dale Arthur Klause, 62, Josh Lattimer, 26, Terry Ray, 45, Kent Robbins, 37, David Williams, 55, and Don Ziegler, 37.
Man charged with child abuse
Following a nearly three-month investigation, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office investigators have charged a Hixson man with child abuse Friday.
Jason Wandell, 22, of 1709 Santa Barbara Circle, was charged with two counts of aggravated child abuse and neglect for injuries reported when his girlfriend’s 9-month-old child was brought to Erlanger North Hospital on July 17, according to a sheriff’s release.
Doctors at T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital later found that the child had sustained brain damage.
Wandell is in custody at the Hamilton County Jail.