LAFOLLETTE, TN (WLAF) – Last Thursday, around 4am, Officer Cheyenne White was walking out of the back of the LaFollette Police Department when she noticed a female in a white 2004 Honda Accord pulled between two police cars. White saw a female get out of the car and begin to approach her. The female said she was being followed so she pulled into the police station to wait.

The woman could not give any further information except that another officer was in enroute. The woman was asked if she had contacted the LaFollette Police Department dispatch or another agency in regard to her situation and she replied “no.” The officer began to get confused by the conversation, because the woman was hardly able to answer any questions and then stated she knew another officer was on the way.

Dispatch informed White that the woman identified as Sherry Renee Burress had an active capias/bench warrant and a suspended driver’s license. White asked Burress why she was driving on a suspended license; the only response Burress would allegedly give was “I need to wait for the others to show up.” White asked who the other people were, and she could not give an answer to that question, according to a report from the LaFollette Police Department.

Burress allegedly told White in the beginning of the conversation that she did not take any medications or narcotics but later admitted to taking a Xanax “a while ago.” Burress was arrested. White asked if she could search her vehicle, and Burress denied said no, according to the report.

White was conducting a vehicle inventory for the tow truck, when she allegedly saw a clear pipe with brown burnt residue at the end of the bowl inside the cup holder between the driver and passenger seat.  She then saw drug paraphernalia. White conducted a full vehicle search. During the search, a red tin container was found inside the vehicle’s center compartment. The container allegedly held multiple small zip baggies, two baggies of a crystal-like substance, three baggies of a white powder substance, one brown powder like substance. Also found inside the red container was a tie off string, multiple needles and a razor blade. In the backseat of the vehicle was a cooler with a brown like substance inside a baggie, multiple needles, and another clear empty baggie. In the driver’s side door was a zip up bag that was full of syringes and three clear plastic capsules that had brown residue inside that was believed to be Heroin.

Burress, 44, 711 West Virginia Ave., LaFollette was charged with the manufacture/delivery/sell of a schedule II controlled substance, possession of schedule I controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving on revoked/suspended license, public intoxication, possession of schedule II controlled substance and the manufacture/delivery/sell of a schedule I controlled substance. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED – 06/21/2023-6AM)

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