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Time to test your free-throw skills with Kingsport’s Parks and Recreation Department. Whether it’s “nothing but net” or a dreaded air ball, you’re bound to have an evening of fun at the V.O. Dobbins Sr Complex competing against your fellow ballers.
The Kingsport Parks and Recreation Department is hosting a Free Throw Contest from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on December 29 in the gymnasiums at V.O. Dobbins (301 Louis Street). Groups includes ages 5 to 6; ages 7 to 9; and ages 10 to 12 and the goal height will be adjusted for each age group.
The event is free, and prizes will be awarded to the winner of each age division.
For more information about the event, please call 423-343-9723.
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Kingsport Police Department
Dale Phipps, Chief of Police 200 Shelby Street • Kingsport, TN 37660 http://KingsportTN.gov/City-Services/Police-Department• www.KingsportPDBlog.com |
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| NEWS RELEASE | ||||
| SUBJECT: | Suspect Sought in Check Fraud that Targeted Elderly Woman on Hospice Care | |||
| DATE: | December 21, 2022 | |||
| CASE #: | 22-018187 | |||
| GENERAL NARRATIVE | ||||
| In September 2022, an incident was reported to the Kingsport Police Department where a personal check was stolen, forged, and cashed for the amount of $2,000. The victim in this case is an elderly woman, in poor health, and on hospice care.
To further complicate this case, the check was written to an individual who has been in prison since May of this year and then cashed using an identification card belonging to that incarcerated prisoner. The unidentified white female adult suspect who actually cashed the check was captured on bank surveillance video during the transaction. Photos taken from that footage have been included in this release. Anyone who recognizes her 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: https://www.kingsporttn.gov/city-services/police-department/contact-us |
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| RELEASING OFFICER | ||
| Thomas M. Patton, Public Information Officer
Kingsport Police Department Professional Standards Unit 423-229-9433 (Desk) • 423-343-9749 (FAX) ThomasMPatton |
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After a 29-year career with the Kingsport Police Department, Captain Randall Gore is on the cusp of retirement and about to begin a new chapter in his life.
A chapter filled with scissors, clippers, combs and a fancy chair.
Following his retirement next month, Gore plans to open Top Notch Cuts Barbershop at 143 E. Jackson Street in downtown Gate City. It’s been an ambition of Gore’s for the past two years.
“Within the last couple of years, I realized I wouldn’t be a policeman forever and I wanted something to do that I could enjoy and be my own boss,” Gore said. “I just couldn’t go home and sit around.”
Gore said he always paid close attention when people would cut his hair and when his barber retired years ago, he started cutting his own hair.
“I saw what my barber did, and I said, ‘I think I could do that.’ (My ambition) just developed from there,” he explained. “People are always going to need haircuts and there’s no barbers in Gate City.”
For the past 15 months, Gore attended the Crown Cutz Academy in Bristol, Va., to earn his barber license, all the while still working full-time as a captain at the Kingsport Police Department. The program involved 1,100 hours of hands-on work, as well as a written and practical skills test.
Gore recently completed both tests and has sent off his application to the State of Virginia, which will then issue him an official barber license – hopefully by the end of January.
“I’m more excited than nervous,” Gore said. “Twenty-nine years is enough for police work. I’m ready to start something new and I’m looking forward to it.”
Gore, 51, has spent his entire 29-year career with the Kingsport Police Department, starting off as a patrolman, then being promoted to corporal, sergeant (accreditation manager), lieutenant (records division) and finally captain about six years ago.
He and his wife Marci have been married for 28 years, and they have one son, Caleb, age 25.
“I’m so excited he can retire at this age and still be “young” enough to get to do something like this,” Marci said. “And I’m proud of all the work he’s done to get here. It was a lot of long days for him.”
