LAFOLLETTE, TN (WLAF) – La Follette Police Officer Anthony Mahar responded to a Friday morning breaking and entering call. At 10:45am Mahar arrived at an apartment above a garage on West Central Avenue behind Martin Wilson Funeral Home.

The owner of the property saw the garage door open and a man standing inside the building. He asked the man, later identified as James Sanchez, why he was in the building. Sanchez allegedly told the owner that another man told him he could stay in the apartment, but that he had to enter through the garage. The owner told Sanchez that that man did not live there and was not allowed on the property either.

James Adam Sanchez, 46, Cherokee Trail, Jacksboro was arrested on Friday morning.

Sanchez was arrested. After Sanchez was delivered to the Campbell County Jail, Mahar was called by the jailer to tell him that they found items in Sanchez belongings. Allegedly located were a .38 Caliber Smith and Wesson revolver, two syringes, a class meth pipe and a digital scale. The scale had a powder substance, according to the arrest report from the La Follette Police Department.

Sanchez, 46, Cherokee Trail, Jacksboro was charged with possessing a firearm in commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of drug paraphernalia as well as breaking and entering. Still housed in the Campbell County Jail this morning, Sanchez is due in court this afternoon at 1pm. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED – 11/16/2021-6AM)

Related