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KPD e-News Release: Quick Change Scam Artists Strike Wal-Mart Again

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Kingsport Police Department

200 Shelby Street • Kingsport, TN 37660

ThomasMPatton • 423-229-9433 (Desk) • 423-224-2786 (FAX)

http://Police.KingsportTN.gov • www.KingsportPDBlog.com

NEWS RELEASE
SUBJECT: Quick Change Scam Artists Strike Wal-Mart Again
DATE: September 30, 2016
CASE #: 16-018434
GENERAL NARRATIVE
On August 28, 2016 at approximately 3:15 PM, two black male con artists swindled a cashier at Wal-Mart, located at 2500 West Stone Drive in Kingsport. While making a purchase, one of the suspects deceptively used a disputed change scheme to trick the cashier into giving him $900 in change that he was not due. The other suspect stood watch and deliberately distracted the clerk to assist his partner with the ruse. The duo left the scene in a white full-size conversion van.

Photos of the suspects and their vehicle taken from surveillance video footage have been included in this release. Anyone who recognizes them is asked to contact Detectives in the K.P.D. Criminal Investigations Division at 423-229-9429 or call Kingsport Central Dispatch at 423-246-9111.

Alternatively, if an individual who is able to supply information related to this or any other case wishes not to be identified, tips can be submitted anonymously via online “Citizen Feedback” forms available at the following link:

http://police.KingsportTN.gov/Citizen_Feedback

Detectives are looking into the distinct possibility that these suspects may be the same individuals, or at least in some way connected to the individuals, who committed a virtually identical offense at the other Kingsport Wal-Mart location in March of this year. To view the news release on this earlier incident, please visit the following link:

https://kingsportpdblog.com/2016/03/17/kpd-e-news-release-con-artist-duo-swindle-cashier-out-of-600-using-disputed-change-scheme/
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Kingsport Police Department Professional Standards Unit

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KPD e-News Release: Kingsport Police Conduct Home Visits and Compliance Checks on Registered Sex Offenders and Charge Several Violators

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Kingsport Police Department

200 Shelby Street • Kingsport, TN 37660

ThomasMPatton • 423-229-9433 (Desk) • 423-224-2786 (FAX)

http://Police.KingsportTN.gov • www.KingsportPDBlog.com

NEWS RELEASE
SUBJECT: Kingsport Police Conduct Home Visits and Compliance Checks on Registered Sex Offenders and Charge Several Violators
DATE: September 29, 2016
GENERAL NARRATIVE
Detectives of the K.P.D. Criminal Investigation Division recently conducted home visits and compliance checks on all Registered Sex Offenders under the direct supervision of the Kingsport Police Department. As a result of those visits, one sex offender has been arrested and four additional sex offenders have been charged for Violations of the Sex Offender Registry.

Samuel K. Dennison, a registered violent sex offender, is required to report quarterly to the Kingsport Police Department. Mr. Dennison has not reported since March 2016, missing his June reporting requirement and placing him in violation of the quarterly reporting requirement of the Sex Offender Registry. He was subsequently arrested and confined in the Kingsport City Jail.

Joen Kyle Serena, Anthony Goodman, Paul Zamorano, and Shawn Michael Hayes were all found to have moved from their last known address without promptly notifying their local law enforcement agency as required by law. Active warrants have been obtained for their arrest with their current whereabouts unknown.

The following information is public record and was obtained from the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry:

Mr. Dennison is classified as a VIOLENT sex offender based upon 1998 convictions for Possession of Child Pornography and Sexual Battery by an Authority Figure.

Mr. Serena is classified as a VIOLENT sex offender based upon 2007 convictions for Attempted Sexual Abuse and Incest.

Mr. Goodman is classified as a sex offender based upon 2006 and 2007 convictions for Aggravated Statutory Rape.

Mr. Zamorano is classified as a sex offender based upon a 2003 conviction for Statutory Rape.

The following information is public record and was obtained from the South Carolina Sex Offender Registry:

Mr. Hayes is classified as a VIOLENT sex offender based upon a 1992 conviction for Criminal Sexual Conduct.

Anyone who knows where any of the four wanted sex offenders can be located is asked to contact Detectives in the K.P.D. Criminal Investigations Division at 423-229-9429 or call Kingsport Central Dispatch at 423-246-9111.

Alternatively, if an individual who is able to supply information related to these sex offenders or any other case wishes not to be identified, tips can be submitted anonymously via online “Citizen Feedback” forms available at the following link:

http://police.KingsportTN.gov/Citizen_Feedback

All convicted sex offenders must register on an annual basis with the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction where they reside. Additionally, violent sex offenders must report on a quarterly basis, and homeless sex offenders must report on a monthly basis. Failure to register or update records is a Class E Felony.

Sex offenders who intend to initially establish or change residency within a particular jurisdiction have 48 hours to notify the appropriate law enforcement agency. No sex offender may reside within 1,000 feet of a school, child care facility, park, playground, recreation center, or athletic field; however, there is a “grandfather clause” that excludes only non-violent offenders if they already lived near one of these child-oriented facilities prior to conviction.

Pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated (T.C.A.) 40-39-217 and Kingsport City Ordinance 6454, the Kingsport Police Department is in the process of establishing a Sex Offender Community Notification System that will supplement the existing state registries. A list of all convicted sex offenders currently under the direct supervision of the Kingsport Police Department has been included in this release.

There are typically additional sex offenders residing in the City of Kingsport who are monitored by the Tennessee Department of Corrections Office of Probation and Parole as a condition of their release. There are also additional sex offenders living outside the city limits, but still in close proximity to Kingsport, who are monitored by other law enforcement agencies.

For a comprehensive listing, to include photographs and detailed information, regarding all sex offenders in the region, please visit the Tennessee and Virginia Sex Offender Registries at the following links:

https://www.tn.gov/tbi/topic/sex-offender-registry-search

http://sex-offender.vsp.virginia.gov/sor/
ARRESTED SEX OFFENDER INFORMATION
Name Samuel K. Dennison
Age Date of Birth 5/23/1949

67 Years of Age
Gender/Race Male/White
Residency 1414 Whitley Drive

Kingsport, TN
Charge(s) Failure to Report Quarterly in Violation of Sex Offender Registry

WANTED SEX OFFENDER #1 INFORMATION
Name Joen Kyle Serena
Age Date of Birth 6/5/1989

27 Years of Age
Gender/Race Male/White
Height/

Weight

 6 feet 6 inches

180 pounds
Last Known Address 479 Virgil Avenue, Apartment #3

Kingsport, TN
Charge(s) Absconding in Violation of Sex Offender Registry

WANTED SEX OFFENDER #2 INFORMATION
Name Anthony Goodman
Age Date of Birth 10/28/1969

46 Years of Age
Gender/Race Male/White
Height/

Weight

 6 feet

183 pounds
Last Known Address 526 Fulton Avenue

Kingsport, TN
Charge(s) Absconding in Violation of Sex Offender Registry

WANTED SEX OFFENDER #3 INFORMATION
Name Paul Zamorano
Age Date of Birth 11/9/1983

32 Years of Age
Gender/Race Male/White
Height/

Weight

 5 feet 6 inches

185 pounds
Last Known Address 1308 Riverside Avenue

Kingsport, TN
Charge(s) Absconding in Violation of Sex Offender Registry

WANTED SEX OFFENDER #4 INFORMATION
Name Shawn Michael Hayes
Age Date of Birth 9/24/1976

40 Years of Age
Gender/Race Male/White
Height/

Weight

 5 feet 11 inches

175 pounds
Last Known Address Westside Inn

1017 West Stone Drive

Kingsport, TN
Charge(s) Absconding in Violation of Sex Offender Registry

Registered Sex Offenders Under the Supervision of the Kingsport Police Department
VIOLENT OFFENDERS
Name (last, first, middle) Gender/Race Date of Birth Home Address
Bacon, Robert Joseph M/W 2/14/1966 324 Arbor Terrace, Kingsport
Bernard, Rass N M/W 3/28/1947 1528 Lynn Garden Dr, Kingsport
Bond, Conrad M/B 3/24/1960 714 Maple Oak Ln, Apt B, Kingsport
Bowie, Joshua David M/W 1/6/1989 Homeless
Bowlin, Michael M/W 6/15/1969 1628 Lowell Dr, Kingsport
Coffman, Jack M/W 3/15/1949 407 Gustavis Ct, Kingsport
Dalton, Frank Robert M/W 4/29/1959 3628 Hazelnut Drive, Kingsport
Delong, Richard M/W 9/3/1976 1634 Woodside Ave, Kingsport
Dennison, Samuel K. M/W 5/23/1949 ARRESTED/1414 Whitley Dr, Kingsport
Dillard, Rhonda D F/W 6/15/1970 3198 Tiffany Ct, Apt 9, Kingsport
Duncan, Clifford Anderson M/W 12/8/1977 367 Sewanee St, Kingsport
Falin, Michael Allen M/W 6/30/1973 359 Barnett Dr, Apt 87, Kingsport
Felker, James M/W 7/14/1987 540 Virgil Ave, Apt 8, Kingsport
Franklin, Thomas Lynn M/W 7/19/1968 1305 Chestnut St, Kingsport
Frazier, Lee R M/W 5/19/1968 117 Tennessee St, Apt 2, Kingsport
Hall, Roger Dale M/W 5/26/1969 3959 Kent St, Apt 4, Kingsport
Hayes, Shawn Michael M/W 9/24/1976 ABSCONDED/CURRENTLY WANTED
Head, Charles Delanis M/W 10/31/1966 866 W Carters Valley, Apt 3, Kingsport
Hutchins, Steve Arnold M/W 8/9/1948 1076 Oak Drive Cir, Kingsport
Jones, James Edward M/W 10/12/1963 216 May Ave, Kingsport
King, Randall Scott M/B 4/25/1962 1221 Cherry St, Kingsport
Manis, Jerry Lee M/W 1/5/1962 221 E Millpond St, Kingsport
Miller, James Herbert M/W 8/15/1943 613 Hollis St, Kingsport
Mosley, William Henry M/W 7/14/1964 117 Patterson Rd, Kingsport
Perdue, Alan Gene M/W 12/23/1952 3109 Memorial Blvd, Apt 30, Kingsport
Ramey, Dewey Lee M/W 2/2/1948 1913 Brunswick St, Kingsport
Rodgers, William Leon M/W 2/21/1959 1701 N John B Dennis, Apt 26, Kingsport
Russell, Wendell Scott M/B 4/13/1964 163 Cherokee Street, Apt 1, Kingsport
Serena, Joen Kyle M/W 7/5/1989 ABSCONDED/CURRENTLY WANTED
Sheets, Darrell Douglas M/W 10/4/1954 1417 Holyoke St, Kingsport
Tunis, David Orville M/W 1/3/1982 921 Fairview Ave, Kingsport
Wells, David E M/W 7/6/1961 1416 Ridgecrest Ave, Kingsport
NON-VIOLENT OFFENDERS
Name (last, first, middle) Gender/Race Date of Birth Home Address
Saltz, David Lee M/W 1/5/1971 2408 Gilmore St, Kingsport
Lawson, Nathan Grant M/W 3/3/1980 1312 Hampton Ave, Kingsport
Marshall, Marisa Ilana F/W 3/18/1958 1502 Harvey Brooks Dr, Kingsport
Curtis, Jared Anthony M/W 3/19/1981 466 Allen Dr, Apt 4, Kingsport
Mullins, Miles Chandler M/W 6/3/1976 3408 Thornton Ave, Kingsport
Temple, Richard M/W 6/6/1967 3271 E Stone Dr, Apt 1, Kingsport
Nolan, Daniel Robert M/W 6/9/1964 710 Birch St, Kingsport
Stewart, Johnathan Lee M/W 8/3/1976 176 Woodmont Ave, Kingsport
Condon, Sean M/W 8/7/1981 4527 Mitchell Rd, Apt 1, Kingsport
Elliot-Estep, Barbara Joan F/W 10/1/1957 1921 Bowater Dr, Apt 21, Kingsport
Oliver, Theodore Phillip M/W 10/8/1945 2932 Cliffside Rd, Kingsport
Smith, Michael Rushton M/W 10/12/1949 1513 Linville St, Kingsport
Goodman, Anthony M/W 10/28/1969 ABSCONDED/CURRENTLY WANTED
Graham, Delshay M/B 10/28/1983 3937 Linda Lane, Apt 8, Kingsport
Zamorano, Paul M/W 11/9/1983 ABSCONDED/CURRENTLY WANTED
Somerville, Zachary Clark M/W 12/20/1975 1313 Union St, Kingsport
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Kingsport Police Department Professional Standards Unit

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Fall Colors Are Showing At Bays Mountain

Bays Mountain Park is always a great draw for visitors seeking the crisp, cool air of fall and the vibrant colors of the season. The peak time to view the fall colors is this week and next.

To give residents even more opportunity to view the specular leave colors, extra barge rides will be added to the weekend of October 15-16 to allow visitors additional opportunity to enjoy the colors around the lake. Rides will be at 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 and 5:00 p.m.  Cost is $5.00 per person.

Below is an excerpt from an article on ‘Autumn in the Southern Appalachians’ by retired Bays Mountain Park Director Tom Bowman:

“We are often asked why autumn in southern Appalachia is so colorful.  It is because of the tremendous species diversity of the trees in our area.  I came originally from western Kansas.  Though beautiful in its own way, there exists in that area fewer than a dozen dominant tree species.  Most exist in riparian communities along streams.  Fall leaf color is pretty much species specific.   Fewer trees and fewer tree varieties amount to less color.  It is said there are more tree species in southern Appalachia than on the entire continent of Europe.  There are 110 species of trees in Bays Mountain alone.  Couple this diversity with some basic leaf ‘chemistry’ and the product is a multi-colored palate.”

Leaf chemistry is happening all year round. Certain chemicals show through as different pigments depending on the species. Brilliant yellows, and oranges in varying degrees are dominant in hickories, ash, maples, birch, and sassafras.

Other pigments are produced late in the summer leaf. These pigments show up as reds, purples, and varying combinations. They show up in the leaves of trees such as sweet gum, oaks, maples, sourwood, dogwood, and persimmons.

It is easy to see how differing pigment levels and combinations, in the 110 tree species of Bays Mountain along, can produce the vast panorama of fall coloration we enjoy in our area.

So get out and enjoy the great leaf colors before they’re gone – it only happens once a year!

For more information on Bays Mountain, please visit baysmountain.com or call 423-224-2589.

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Kingsport Train Club

Are you a fan of trains? Are you interested in model trains? Join the Kingsport Train Club! The Kingsport Train Club meets Tuesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The club meets at Innovation Forge (the old YMCA building) at 1100 Franklin Square, beside Chop House on Eastman Road. The club is open to all in the community and will feature O gauge MTH trains which were graciously donated to the club by the Ned McChrystal Family. In addition, HO and N gauge trains will also be available.

The club is sponsored by Engage Kingsport.  For more information, please contact Dave Stevens at dstevens@kptware.com or (423) 967-1173.

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William, son of Russ Ayscue, shows a completed small train layout.

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Richard Woelkers, Russ Ayscue, and Robert Myers build a foundation for a larger train layout.

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