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The sick values of a Bible-belt information purveyor
Why do they have to pay
businesses to move to Ray Pollen's Cookeville?
Yeah Katrina! We made
money off you!
Cookeville measures nation's worst
disaster in terms of 'occupied
hotel rooms'
The sick values of a
Bible-belt community with a district attorney who swears he does not use
cocaine
Click for full
image of DA graphic in Pollen's town
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No city in recent
history has faced so much bad publicity and performed so poorly while
pretending nothing is wrong.
The Aug. 16, 2005 announcement of an
FBI sting that nabbed two Cookeville police is just the latest in a
string of shameful events that has marked Bob Terry's tenure as Cookeville
police chief. Was Terry oblivious to a three-year federal investigation
into his employees? This department is your first line of defense against
terrorism.
 Read
the indictment naming Reno Martin
Read
the indictment naming Jason Blythe
Read the federal criminal
complaints naming Gregory Dale Scott, Robin Blaskis, Ronald Middlebrook,
Darrell Thomas Jones, Troy Bell, Steven Bert Williamson, Jason Blythe
and Reno Martin.
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At least the sheriff hasn't been
formally implicated . . .
No bail for Cookeville cops in drug sting
Busted cop Reno Martin attempts
to use his religion to get free
Missionary position
Alleged Newspaper calling itself 'Herald-Citizen' reports
Martin trained other "missionaries"
Dozens of family members and
friends gathered Tuesday in and outside the Nashville courtroom, many from
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that Martin attends in
Cookeville, to testify on Martin's behalf. H-C uses Nashville dateline but
only quotes "Cookevillians who attended
the hearing."
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The district attorney
is barely literate, barely made it out of high school, was a pity case
accepted on probation to a local college and barely graduated thanks to
receiving A's for marching in ROTC. Gibson got into a law school whose
graduates can only practice in Tennessee -- even if they could pass a
bar exam elsewhere.
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The best judge in the area, who was under consideration to be a
supreme court justice, pulled out of the competition and admitted he was
disciplined for inappropriate sexual advances to a female court
employee.
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The former court
clerk was a thief, who illegally took money from prisoners and ran
his property rental business from the court house.
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