By Jim Beller

Statutory rape by an authority figure, rape, aggravated sexual battery, and criminal exposure to HIV are among the charges levied against multiple persons indicted by a Hawkins Grand Jury Monday.

Kenneth Dale White, 46, 137 Peavler Lane, Rogersville, was charged with rape, aggravated kidnapping, criminal exposure to HIV, and aggravated burglary. White allegedly kicked in the door of the residence of a 53-year-old woman on March 9, barricaded himself and the woman inside for four to five hours, and sexually assaulted her.

The victim’s husband reportedly returned home from work to find White “with little or no clothes on” in bed with the victim, according to the original arrest warrant. White allegedly escaped the husband’s beating and ran out of the house, and was found at a church not far from the victim’s home, where White’s clothes were allegedly found.

White sent a letter to the Review July 21.

“The jail said that I had AIDS and when they took me to court, they had a letter on the door saying that anyone entering the courtroom will be exposed to AIDS,” White wrote.

“They gave you all that information without proff (sic) or anything,” he wrote. “I have not got AIDS.

“Everbody (sic) in the county thinks I am guilty. They said I had a crimanal (sic) history of charges but it is just public drunkness (sic) charges. Everbody (sic) in the county thinks bad of me but they have not let me tell my side of the charges,” he wrote.

Two men were indicted  by the Grand Jury for alleged sexual misconduct with minors.

Roger Lee Dugger, 39, 379 Cowan Town Rd, Butler, is charged with aggravated sexual battery for alleged inappropriate contact with a seven-year-old Hawkins County boy.

Dugger is accused of touching the boy between the legs with the hose of a running vacuum cleaner while babysitting the child at a Church Hill residence sometime between Dec. 3 and Dec. 17, 2007.
In the arrest warrant, Dugger waived right to counsel and admitted that he touched the boy on his groin “with a vacuum cleaner hose and that the vacuum cleaner suction was on.”

According to the warrant, “After he touched (the victim), he said he was sorry and told (the victim) not to tell” because “it would get (Dugger) in trouble.” The warrant also states Dugger remarked, “Oh my God, I just done something sexual to this child.”

According to the warrant, the child’s mother believed the incident could have occurred while she was at work, and that Dugger did babysit the boy alone.

Dugger is the woman’s live-in boyfriend, according to the child’s grandmother, who reported the incident to police Dec. 16.

Raymond Jarvis Miracle, 26, 239 Horton Road, Surgoinsville, faces a charge of statutory rape by an authority figure.

According to the indictment handed down Monday, Miracle engaged in “the unlawful penetration of a person at least 13 years old but less than 18 years old” when he was 25, or “at least four years older than the victim and further that defendant had at the time of the offense parental or custodial authority over the victim and used the authority to accomplish the sexual penetration, a Class C felony.”

Two men face felony reckless endangerment, felony evading arrest, and reckless driving charges in two separate high-speed chases.

David Lee Foster, 19, 5004 Tazewell Hwy, Sneedville, was allegedly speeding in a stolen 2000 Chevrolet 1500 pickup truck June 10, “running red lights, passing on the emergency lane, running high rates of speed,” according to Rogersville Police Officer Kenneth Ferguson.

Six cruisers from Rogersville and four from the Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office joined two Bean Station squad cars in pursuit of the Jefferson County pickup truck.

Foster allegedly led police vehicles onto Stanley Valley Road, Bray Road, Hickory Cove Road, Caney Valley Road, and Caney Valley Loop, before striking Rogersville Police Department vehicles near East Snowflake Road.

During the chase it was learned a woman and two children were also in the stolen vehicle. The woman, Kasey Fox, 26, Tazewell, called 911 during the chase and could be heard during the call yelling at the suspect to stop the vehicle.

As they approached Stanley Valley Road, the car of Officer Joey Maddox was reportedly rammed by the fleeing truck and knocked into the median. The truck then allegedly crossed the median and drove against traffic on Highway 11W, running other vehicles off the road; turned onto Stanley Valley speeding toward the Virginia state line, crashing into Ferguson’s car on Caney Valley Loop; then struck vehicles driven by Rogersville officers James Hammonds and Tim Clevinger.

The driver spun out in the grass and when Ferguson drove up to block his path back to the road, was allegedly rammed again by the suspect.

Officers surrounded the truck and forced the man to surrender at gunpoint.

Foster was charged with felony evading arrest, felony reckless endangerment, reckless driving, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of a prohibited weapon (a large “butterfly knife”).

Anthony Allen Dixon, 29, 8829 South East End Street, Chicago, was indicted Monday for two counts of aggravated assault, evading arrest, reckless endangerment, speeding, driving on a suspended license, and resisting arrest based on a June 5 incident.

According to the indictment, Dixon fled from Rogersville Patrolman Chris Pinkston doing 108 miles per hour in a 55-mph zone, placing “other persons in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury by operating an automobile at a high rate of speed down a narrow, two lane city street and driving into a sharp curve striking two other occupied vehicles.” Dixon allegedly struck Rogersville Police Detective Jim Shanks and nearly struck Police Chief Doug Nelson.

Amanda Hope McGill, 24, 5200 Cub Circle, Morristown, was indicted Monday one count of aggravated burglary, one count of theft of property under $500, and 16 counts of forgery. McGill allegedly wrote checks at numerous businesses throughout Hawkins County in February and March, without the victim’s authorization.