Press Releases

“”> A Knox County jury found Rufus Tilden Franklin, Jr., guilty-as-charged of multiple counts of Aggravated Assault after prosecutors with District Attorney General Charme P. Allen’s office presented evidence that Franklin pulled a hunting rifle on Knoxville Police Department Officers.

Prosecutors with Charme Allen’s Major Crimes Unit obtained convictions today for a cold case that was solved with the help of DNA evidence.

Prosecutors with DA Charme Allen’s Career Gang Unit obtained an Aggravated Robbery conviction and Criminal Gang Enhancement yesterday for gang member Kaylecia Gabriel Woodard, 22.

Prosecutors in District Attorney General Charme P. Allen’s Child Abuse Unit obtained the maximum sentence today for convicted rapist Lance Elliott Falcon.

Prosecutors with DA Charme P. Allen’s Felony Drug Unit obtained an enhanced sentence today in a case involving repeat cocaine dealer Jeffrey Stanley Mitchell.

Child Abuse Prosecutors with DA Charme Allen’s office secured convictions this afternoon for Rape and Incest against William Cole.

After only an hour of deliberation, a Knox County jury convicted Aaron Christopher Rogers, 24, of Possession with Intent to Sell Cocaine, Simple Possession of Marijuana, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

Tylyn R. Pass, 37, was convicted of DUI today after Assistant District Attorney General Joe Welker presented evidence of her drunk driving to a Knox County jury.

Child abuse prosecutors with District Attorney General Charme P. Allen’s office secured a conviction today in a case where Robert Alexander Grisham, 47, produced child pornography by secretly recording a minor in a state of undress before and after showering.

Prosecutors with DA Charme Allen’s Child Abuse Unit obtained a conviction today for Aggravated Child Neglect committed by defendant Ashonti Sheeerice Glass, 21.

A jury agreed with prosecutors in DA Charme Allen’s Criminal Division and found William Charles Burgess, 52, guilty of Obstruction of Service of Process and Resisting Arrest.

Prosecutors with District Attorney General Charme P. Allen’s DUI Unit obtained a conviction today for a vehicular homicide case where the driver was intoxicated by three types of prescription

Prosecutors in District Attorney General Charme P. Allen’s White Collar Unit are sending Honey M. Rice, 35, to jail after she posed as a doctor to obtain fraudulent prescriptions from multiple Knox County pharmacies.

Another gang member is being sent to prison due to the hard work of the prosecutors in the newly-created Career Gang Unit.

District Attorney Charme Allen announced today that the major target in the most significant public corruption case in Knox County history has entered a plea of guilty to theft of several hundred thousand dollars from Knox County.

Upon a petition filed by District Attorney General Charme P. Allen, Judge Bob McGee has ordered authorities to close the residence at 1725 Beaumont Avenue under the state nuisance law.

After deliberating for only twenty minutes, a Knox County jury convicted Jerry Lee Thomas, 40, of Assault following an altercation that occurred on August 29, 2012.

Prosecutors in the Office of District Attorney General Charme P. Allen have sent convicted murderer Brandon Scott Donaldson to prison for the next 68 years.

Prosecutors in District Attorney General Charme P. Allen’s Career Gang Unit have convicted another man of multiple criminal offenses stemming from a February 2014 home-invasion shooting in the Fort Sanders neighborhood.

Heroin traffickers caught in a criminal conspiracy that stretched from Chicago to Knox County and Sevier County were sentenced to nearly three hundred years between the eighteen co-conspirators convicted in this case.