FCE Holds Rally at Twisted Oaks Restaurant

September 14, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

The annual Rally for Alexandria and Smithville Family Consumer Education (FCE) Clubs was held at the Twisted Oaks Restaurant on Wednesday, September 8 in Smithville.

The host club was the Smithville group. Susan Hinton welcomed the gathering with music and a fall theme of sunflowers, fall leaves, and a painted heart. Helga Thompson, member of the Smithville group presented each member with a holy rock and the history from a collection she had found through the years.

After a wonderful lunch, the group had fun catching up and took a group photo.

The Family Consumer Education Club, formerly known as the Home Demonstration Club, meets monthly. Contact the local Agricultural Extension Office if you are interested in joining.

September 14, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

A late night high speed pursuit resulted in a crash and the arrest of two people.

18 year old Kenneth Mooneyham of Smithville is charged with evading arrest, reckless endangerment, driving on a suspended license, and speeding. 31 year old Heather McClure of Hendersonville is facing active warrants against her out of Davidson County.

According to Trooper Bobby Johnson of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, the pursuit began after he clocked a 1997 Ford Mustang speeding on Highway 70.

“ At 11:11 p.m. Monday night, September 13 while running stationary radar on Highway 70 I clocked a vehicle westbound traveling 84 MPH in a 55 MPH zone. Upon my initiating lights and sirens the vehicle continued westbound at a high rate of speed. The vehicle turned onto Woodbury Highway in a reckless manner striking the curb, causing the driver to lose control. The car then struck both the east and west side guard rails. The vehicle was badly damaged and smoking profusely as it continued south on Woodbury Highway. About a mile before the Cannon County line the driver ran off the left side of the roadway and overturned coming to final rest on its top. Both the driver, Mooneyham, and passenger McClure were uninjured and taken into custody.

Trooper Johnson was assisted by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department.

September 14, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

A Lebanon man wanted for aggravated kidnapping and statutory rape led Smithville Police on a pursuit Friday before crashing his vehicle and fleeing on foot into the woods. About an hour and a half later he was arrested after a Tennessee Highway Patrol K-9 unit flushed him out of the woods.

26 year old Tyler Shawn Fowler is under a $30,000 bond on charges of statutory rape and felony evading and will make a court appearance on September 30.

The incident unfolded Friday, September 10 at around 3:15 p.m. on Meadowbrook Drive as Fowler tried to outrun Smithville Police. When the officer initiated his lights and sirens, Fowler began to increase his speed and refused to stop. After about a 15 minute chase, Fowler ran the vehicle he was driving into a ditch and began to flee on foot. The Tennessee Highway Patrol was later summoned to help search the woods using a K-9. At the time officers thought Fowler might be armed. He was not. Trooper Bobby Johnson, Trooper Andrew Coppinger, and THP K-9 officer Adam Cothron and his dog Draco arrived on the scene.

“We responded to Tabernacle Road due to a man who had fled on foot into the woods and was possibly armed. He was wanted for aggravated kidnapping. They requested our K-9 assistance. The K-9 came from Trousdale County and upon arrival he began to track. After a couple of minutes he located the suspect in some brush. Fowler wouldn’t comply with commands to get on the ground or get his hands up so the K-9 was deployed and drug him out from the brush. Fowler was then checked out by DeKalb EMS and taken into custody,” said Trooper Johnson.

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