The Cannon County Sheriff’s Department recently gave a citation to a Dickens Hill Road man for knowingly and unlawfully calling 9-1-1. According to Sheriff’s Department Reports Deputies were dispatched to a Dickens Hill Road residence after dispatchers could not get the caller later identified as Randall Smotherman to explain the reason for the call. Upon arrival, Mr. Smotherman appeared to be intoxicated and stated that he had not called 9-1-1. Deputies observed the land line phone from which the call had come from laying on the bed next to Smotherman. Smotherman could not tell deputies his social security number and repeatedly denied calling 9-1-1. Deputies cited Smotherman for calling 9-1-1 when there was no emergency. He will answer to the charge April 5th in General Sessions Court. Incidentally recently Deputies were at the same residence and arrested Smotherman’s brother after there was an altercation during an argument over a liquor bottle.
