The Meigs County Sheriff’s Office is seeking information about what was described as an ambush during a routine traffic stop Wednesday.
The deputy, who was not named, made contact with a man in the Peakland Road-Highway 68 area, according to a statement posted on the Sheriff’s Office social media page. The deputy got out of his patrol vehicle to talk with the man and was “ambushed” by a second person and struck with an unknown object.
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The deputy was knocked unconscious, and the two others ran away, authorities said. The deputy is recovering at home.
Peakland Road, about 11 miles north of Decatur, Tennessee, makes a shallow loop north of Highway 68 on the east side of the Watts Bar Dam in the Akeman Crossroad community in the north end of the county.