Doyle faces multiple charges including felony fleeing, aggravated assault on a police officer, four counts of reckless endangerment, theft of property, felony escape, driving on a Sneed license, driving under the influence, reckless driving, violation of seatbelt law, violation of stop sign law, violation of registration law, violating financial responsibility, and possessing drug paraphernalia.
Doyle was arrested on April 4, 2007 after a high speed chase which began with an armed robbery at a Gallatin Walgreen Drugstore.
Doyle fled the scene of the robbery in a red Chevy Caviler with a Pennsylvania license plate and headed north towards Westmoreland. Sumner County Deputy Marty Cothran pulled over Doyle during a routine traffic stop at the intersection of Hwy. 31-E and Hwy. 52 in Westmoreland and learned that the suspect he'd pulled over fit the description of the suspect in the robbery.
Deputy Cothron ordered Doyle to exit the vehicle. However, Doyle allegedly made a threatening move and the deputy responded by firing a shot that grazed Doyle's right check. Doyle then fled the scene at a high speed and headed East on Hwy. 52 towards Lafayette.
The Macon County Sheriff's Department, the Lafayette Police Department, and the Tennessee Highway Patrol agencies where alerted that the suspect was headed into Macon County.
Doyle was then spotted near the O.K. Market and pursed. Doyle reportedly ran several stop signs on the Hwy. 52 By-Pass before pulling into the Save-A-Lot parking lot. Law enforcement vehicles blocked all the exits and Macon County Sheriff's Department Detective Benny Hudgens ordered Doyle to exit the vehicle.
Instead, Doyle moved again and struck Detective Hudgens with the passenger side of his car, injuring the officer's shoulder.
Doyle then fled again, traveling from the Save-A-Lot parking lot to Sneed Blvd. then out the Coolidge Rd. He was apprehended when the vehicle ran off a bridge in John Lewis Hollow and wrecked. Cash was found in a paper sack in the vehicle.
On July 18 of this year Doyle escaped for nearly ten hours when he was being taken to a court hearing. Wearing a second layer of clothes under his orange prison attire, Doyle managed to slip into a non-secure area and then walked out of the Justice Center unnoticed.
Officers from at least four agencies were involved in the search for Doyle.
The Macon County Sheriff's Department, the Lafayette Police Department, the Tennessee Highway Patrol, and U.S. Marshals conducted a grid search of the Macon County area throughout the day yet Doyle managed to elude law enforcement until nearly 8 p.m.
Around 7:45 p.m., law enforcement received several tips from motorists about a man fitting the suspect's description attempting to flag down cars on Hwy.10-South. Law enforcement agencies then converged on a hillside near Summers Radiator Shop and the fugitive was found hiding behind a large log among some downed trees.
In other Criminal Court activity, The Macon Grand Jury returned an indictment on Oct. 1 for Tommy Nelson Tuck, 39, on charges of two counts of attempted first degree murder and one count of aggravated burglary.
In an affidavit of complaint filed by Detective Bill Cothron, on July 14th, Tuck entered the home of his ex-wife, Heather Tuck at 166 Windle Lane in Red Boiling Springs around 2:15 a.m.
According to Cothron, after finding Heather Tuck's boyfriend David McCarter sleeping in the bedroom, Tuck became angry and pulled a knife and assaulted Heather Tuck and cut her throat. He then assaulted McCarter by cutting his throat and stabbing him multiple times in the chest with the knife.
Cothron also wrote that the victims claim that Tuck stated he was going to kill them.
The victims were taken by Macon County Emergency Medical Services to a landing zone near the Nestle Waters plant and were then transferred to Air Evac Lifeteam air ambulances who then flew them to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
Tuck had fled the scene in a black 2004 Ford Ranger truck and was found behind a residence on McClure Street in Red Boiling Springs by his brother, Red Boiling Springs Police Chief Terry Tuck and Macon County Sheriff Mark Gammons.
Tuck remans in the Macon County Jail, where he is being held on a $510,000 bond.
Tuck was previously convicted in 1991 of assault with intent to commit first degree murder and aggravated assault after stabbing his first wife, Janie Tuck, multiple times with a small butcher knife in July of 1989.
In another upcoming Criminal Court case, former Jailer R.J. Spivey, accused of sexually assaulting an inmate, will seek pretrial diversion when he appeared in court on Oct. 8.
According to Assistant District Attorney Tom Swink, B.F. “Jack” Lowery, Spivey's attorney, sent an application for pretrial diversion to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) to determine whether he was eligible for pretrial diversion.
The civil suit was filled on July 20 by Attorney John E. Herbison, of Nashville, in the Macon County Circuit Court on behalf of Bilbrey, an inmate in the Macon County Jail. She alleges that she was sexually assaulted by Spivey on July 20, 2006, when she was incarcerated in the Macon County Jail.
Bilbrey's account of the events says that Spivey was escorting inmate Bilbrey to a multi-purpose room at the jail and pulled her into an isolated area and forced her to engage in sexual intercourse with him.
According to public records of the case, TBI was asked by former Macon County Sheriff Joe Ferguson to take over the investigation of the case. Ferguson terminated Spivey pending the results of the investigation after he learned the results of an interview conducted by TBI Special Agent Russ Winkler with Spivey.
Spivey was arrested by TBI on February 8 and charged with one count of Sexual Conduct with an Inmate and one count of Official Misconduct.
The civil suit charges that due to Spivey's alleged actions, the plaintiff suffered “fear, humiliation, extreme mental and emotional anguish and trauma.” The complaint also asserts Bilbrey was subjected to “cruel and unusual punishment” and holds Macon County liable for violation of her constitutional rights under the eighth and fourteenth Amendments to the United Constitution, pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated 8-8-302.
The complaint for damages requests the defendant to be summoned to answer the complaint and requests a judgment against Macon County for compensatory damages. It also requests “punitive or exemplary damages” to be awarded, “in an amount appropriate according to the proof of this action.”
Bilbrey also requests the case be tried before a jury, according to documents which were filled in Circuit Court on July 20.
Spivey was employed at the jail for approximately 4 1/2 years. At the time of the incident, had been at the jail for approximately 2 1/2 years.
MCHS FOOTBALL COACH CANCELS FINAL TWO GAMES OF FRESHMEN SEASON
Macon County High School head football coach Daniel Cook announced last Saturday night following the Freshmen away game at Gordonsville that he was canceling the last two games of he Freshmen season for "the sake of the program."
'It needs a lot of improvement, and we just want to put it on the right for next year," Coach Cook said.
After Friday night's Homecoming Game loss to the Smith County Owls, post game discussions with parents and fans followed a persistent pattern, according to varied witness accounts.
However, Coach Cook stated that he felt these accounts, had "been blown way out of proportion...the people I talked to weren't rude and it was one of the more positive discussions we've had following a game."
Various rumors were flying over the weekend: Coach Cook had resigned; the coach had been arrested; the coach was cussed out by angry parents.
"None of that is true, and I intend to continue serving as MCHS Coach," cook said.
"It was actually one of the best MCHS Homecoming weeks I can remember, interjected MCHS Principal Wayne Deering, who sat in on the the 11 a.m. Monday interview with Coach Cook , WEEN-am and WLCT-fm commentator Randy Swaffer, and Macon County Times Editor Jerry Greenway.
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