November 27, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
A local man was arrested last week during a traffic stop after he was found with meth and counterfeit bills.
47 year old Chad Everette Knowles of the Loop Smithville is charged with criminal simulation and manufacture, deliver, sale, or possession of methamphetamine. He is under an $80,000 bond and his court date is December 20.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on Sunday, November 25 a deputy pulled over a vehicle on Page Drive. Knowles was a passenger. After Knowles consented to a search of his person, the officer found five baggies of a crystal like substance believed to be methamphetamine on the inside of Knowles’ pants. The total weight of the meth was 7.3 grams. A scale was also found on the passenger side floor board where Knowles had been sitting. Inside Knowles’ wallet were two- $20 bills that bore an odd color, no water marks, and they were missing the strip inside the bill. The bills were checked with a counterfeit detector pen and tested positive for being counterfeit. The bills were then seized and placed into evidence.
46 year old Mark Anthony Mason, Jr. of Dearman Street, Smithville is charged with possession of a schedule II drug (oxycodone). His bond is $25,000 and he will make a court appearance December 6.
Sheriff Ray said that on Wednesday, November 21 a deputy was dispatched to a residence on Adcock Cemetery Road due to a report of an intoxicated man. Upon arrival the officer confronted the suspect, Mason inside the home and searched him. Inside Mason’s jacket pocket, the officer found a pill bottle containing 87 small round white pills believed to be oxycodone.
47 year old Richard Allen Tilly of Short Mountain Highway, Smithville is charged with domestic assault. He is under a $2,500 bond and his court date is December 13.
Sheriff Ray said that after receiving a call Tuesday, November 20 of a physical domestic on Short Mountain Highway, the responding officer met the victim at D & D Market. She reported that Tilly, her ex-husband had grabbed her by the neck and shoved her into a dresser leaving a red mark on her upper back and marks on both sides of her neck. Though divorced, the woman said she and Tilly still live together.