DUFF, TN (WLAF) – Not long before midnight Thursday, a Campbell County Sheriff’s Deputy successfully served an active search warrant on a Duff woman. However, the task became some what of an adventure during the process.

Deputy Preston Mullins made a stop at a home on 4688 Highway 25W looking for Crystal King. The deputy went to this address, because he had arrested King there before.

When Mullins knocked on the door, a man Mullins calls King’s significant other, Dewey Heatherly, answered the door. Heatherly told Mullins that King was not there after he asked if she was.

Even though Heatherly told the deputy that King was not there, Deputy Mullins could hear movement within the home and believed King was attempting to hide. Mullins told Heatherly that he had a warrant for King’s arrest and explained the consequences of hiding King. Based on the report from the sheriff’s office, Heatherly still insisted that King was not at home and that he had taken her to her mother’s home in La Follette earlier in the day.

Sergeant Josh Jeffers arrived, and he and Deputy Mullins entered the home in search of King. The officers soon found King hiding behind a couch in the living room.

King allegedly admitted that she knew she had an arrest warrant. King and Heatherly were taken into custody and transported to the Campbell County Jail.

Heatherly, 57, 299 Hwy 90, Duff, was charged with accessory after the fact. He is free on a $10,000 bond and is due in court on May 10.

A Thursday court date awaits King, 39, 4667 Hwy 25W, Duff, who remains housed in the county jail this morning without bond on charges of a capias/bench warrant and evading arrest. According to jail records, this was King’s ninth arrest. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED – 04/19/2022-6AM)

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