June 18, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
A woman has been arrested for allegedly attacking her mother.
32-year-old Vanessa Renee Poss of West Hurricane Ridge Road, Smithville is charged with aggravated assault. She is under a $5,000 bond and her court date is June 20.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on June 4 Poss got into a physical altercation with her mother. Poss allegedly grabbed and punched her mother while on the ground and placed her foot on the back of the woman’s neck resulting in her feeling like she was being strangled.
29-year-old Nathan Wayne Stout of Sparta, an inmate at the jail, is charged with indecent exposure. His bond is $4,000 and he will be in court June 27. Sheriff Ray said that on May 31 at 5:10 p.m. after two correctional officers conducted a head count and were leaving the annex cell area Stout called for them to look his way and then exposed himself.
40-year-old Nathan Joe Trapp of A.B. Frazier Road, Smithville, a prisoner at the jail, is charged with assault and aggravated assault. His bond is $15,000 and he will be in court June 20. Sheriff Ray said that on May 2 at 9:24 p.m. Trapp was observed getting out of his bunk before repeatedly punching and stomping another inmate while he (victim) was on the floor. Other inmates intervened and stopped the assault.
Twelve days later on May 14 at 11:21 a.m. a correctional officer at the jail received a call on the radio of a fight in the Jail annex dorm. He responded along with another correctional officer, who opened the cell door and saw Trapp standing in front of another inmate telling him he had to get out of the annex. The correctional officers reviewed jail surveillance video and saw Trapp hit the inmate several times about the head, arm, and back with lunch trays. They then had a nurse witness the marks and swelling on the inmate’s forearm and wrist.
28-year-old Taylor Shayne Walpole of Lebanon is charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver. His bond totals $52,500.
Sheriff Ray said that on January 24 a deputy was dispatched to Foutch Lane due to an overdose. Upon arrival the officer spoke with Walpole who appeared to be under the influence. Walpole said he had taken Seroquel. Family members reported that Walpole kept his medications in a bag. When the bag was located and opened, the officer found needles along with a dollar bill hidden behind Walpole’s identification which contained a bluish powder believed to be heroin that weighed 1.3 grams.
36-year-old Joshua Allen Abbott of Sparta is charged with violation of an order of protection. His bond is $2,000 and he will be in court June 20. Sheriff Ray said that on June 5 Abbott sent a text to the woman who obtained the protection order asking if she was going to drop it.
47-year-old Amanda Lanette Knowles of Keltonburg Road is charged with filing a false report. Her bond is $2,500 and she will be in court June 27. Sheriff Ray said that on May 28, Knowles filed a report with the sheriff’s department stating her vehicle had been stolen. After an investigation by a detective, Knowles admitted during an interview that her car was not stolen and that she knew at the time of making the initial report that the statement was false.
39-year-old Earl Craig Asberry, Jr. of Prater Road, Smithville is charged with vandalism. His bond is $1,500 and he will be in court on July 11.
Sheriff Ray said that on June 15 Asberry was arrested on an active warrant and while enroute to the jail, Asberry became irate. He laid back in the rear seat of the patrol car and began kicking and hitting the rear passenger window and door causing an estimated damage of $1,000.