September 5, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
A Smithville man is facing an arson charge after allegedly setting fire to a vehicle last month.
34 year old Jeff Scott Hembree of Halls Hollow Road, Smithville is under a $7,500 bond.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said detectives received a report of a 2012 Nissan Rogue found burned in the parking lot of the boat ramp at Holmes Creek. They conducted an investigation and developed Hembree as a suspect. He was subsequently arrested in the case. Hembree is believed to have set fire to the vehicle which belonged to another person on Sunday, August 12. The Rogue was valued at 10,000.