Knoxville and Lenoir City Police arrested four women and cited two more people to court over the weekend as part of a multiple-agency human trafficking sting, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Knoxville Field Office. The FBI says three women were arrested for soliciting prostitution in Lenoir City.
Three Loudon County residents were indicted, along with 14 others, on federal methamphetamine charges April 4, according to a May 2 release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Dennis Clark, 30, Philadelphia; Ashely Morris-Casebolt, 31, Lenoir City; and Thomas Freeman, 43, Greenback, were all part of a seven-count indictment from a federal grand jury in Knoxville for roles in the distribution of methamphetamine.
Only 20 people work here now, down from a peak of 120, and the rest will soon be gone, too, following their colleagues and fanning out to the campuses. Disassembled cubicles and crates of documents are piled in the corners of the 36,000-square-foot space, and light shines from the doors of the few lonely offices still occupied.