KODAK — More than five years after thieves broke through the glass front entrance of Rocky Top Chrysler to seal cars displayed inside, Sevierville Police arrested another of the alleged participants.
Llyntrell Morelis Jones, 29, of Jackson, Tennessee, was arrested Friday on a sealed presentment that charged him with vandalism causing $60,000 or more in damages, theft of property worth more than $60,000, and burglary.
Presentments are indictments issued when allegations are taken directly to the grand jury, before charges have been filed. They typically remain sealed until the defendants are arrested.The presentment against Jones was issued in November of 2022.
It indicates Jones was allegedly among the thieves who broke into the dealership on Winfield Dunn Parkway early on May 22, 2021, by smashing the glass front entrance and going inside.
They got away with three cars, although one was found abandoned nearby.
Jones was being held at the Sevier County Jail on Tuesday in lieu of $50,000 bond.
He’s the third man charged in relation to the incident.
Ted Lewis Ingram and Keontis Jenkins,.also of Jackson, were arrested in the months after the incident.
Court records indicate the charges against Ingram were later dismissed. Jenkins failed to appear in court after posting $100,000 bond and there is still a warrant out for his arrest.