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Halloween in Sullivan County

Halloween was very different in Sullivan County this year. Yes, the rain did play a major role in law enforcement for a typical Halloween. The kids must have gotten a plenty of treats because the tricks were very small to nonexistent, however we were extremely busy.

The use of drug, alcohol and other stimulates were most of the problems. Case in point, a gentleman told his wife he was going to see a friend and would be back in a few minutes, but was found at a local bar hours later. This resulted into a verbal domestic. He was drunk. We put him to bed. Another father and son was verbal domestic where drugs were involved. The father was trying to remove guns from his adult son’s apartment because of the son’s drug induced condition. The father left with all the ammunition.

We were called to a fight at a local club in which a divorced husband confronted the ex-wife’s new boyfriend and exchanged a few blows and several words. Both men refused to press charges and decide to leave. As the night went on a man working at Wal-Mart decided to go home for lunch to find another man at his house visiting his live in girl friend.  Both decided not to press charges. The boyfriend went back to work and the friend left the residents.

All of these stories were to set the tone of how our night went along, but the story I have yet to tell is the best of the night. This story will be talked about but the public may or may not hear. Sullivan County Dispatch received a third party call that a man may have shot himself and dispatched Deputy Jeff Parker. Shots fired. Deputy Parker, Deputy Thomas and Constable Dwain Hittinger arrived at the same time. Constable Jack Almany and Constable Scott Anderson arrived very shortly afterwards. Locating the mobile home we knocked on the door for several minutes. Deputy Parker and Constable Hittinger went to the rear of the mobile home, looked through the windows and knocked on the back door.

Constable Jack Almany, a retired Kingsport firefighter and Paramedic, made contact with a fifty year old man who was having life problems. Almany, after several attempt, convinced the man to come and open the door so we could check his wellbeing. To Almany’s surprise, the man answered the door with a knife to his own throat. Almany made a quick dialog with the man, but the man was not backing down. The Deputies allowed Almany to continue talking to the man telling him he was a paramedic there to help him. The man was still refusing treatment and was not going to put the knife down.

Almany told the man that he could not leave until he signed a release form. The man understood. The release form was retrieved from EMS where they were staged by Hittinger. Almany explained that there were multiple copies and he would have to press extremely hard. Almany then moved to assist him holding the clip board. As the man concentrated on writing his address and signing his name, Almany knocked the knife from his throat and pushed him to the back of the couch. Parker, Thomas, Anderson and Hittinger charged into the house to assist taking the man down to the floor and retrieving the knife. The man received a very minor cut to the throat and Anderson received a cut to the finger when the knife closed up on his hand.

Bloomingdale Volunteer Fire Department, Kingsport Life Saving Crew, Sullivan County EMS and Constable Ralph King were also on hand to assist.

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