Apprehension Of Fugitive And Four Others On Highway 299

Contributed article.

On Dec. 12, after assisting the Drug Task Force with a buy/bust on Highway 299, Dade County Sheriff Ray Cross and one of his road patrol sergeants decided to check a residence on Highway 299 for a wanted subject who had been evading law enforcement for weeks.

Sheriff Cross and his sergeant, after driving by the residence of the wanted subject and observing his vehicle there, requested the assistance of other DCSO deputies and agents with the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force to serve the warrant.

While Cross and Sergeant Chad Payne were waiting for the other deputies to arrive, the vehicle left the residence traveling toward Marion County, Tenn. Sheriff Cross, Dade County units, and DTF agents began driving in the direction of the wanted subject. At some point, the vehicle turned around, and when it passed the law enforcement units, the subject was observed driving the vehicle with a female passenger. He accelerated rapidly when he saw law enforcement.

The subject made it back to his residence, but with law enforcement right behind him.

Law enforcement entered the residence but was not able to locate the subject initially. After confirming with the drone unit that the subject had not made it out of the residence into the surrounding woods, DCSO detectives obtained a search warrant for the inside of the residence. Thanks to a thermal imaging camera provided by Dade EMA Director Alex Case and a diligent search by a Trenton Police Department investigator, DCSO deputies, and DTF agents, the subject was located in a “false wall” inside a closet, with the opening concealed by a mirror.

James Janow Jr. of Wildwood was taken into custody on four Dade County warrants and a Hamilton County, Tenn., warrant. He was also found to be in possession of Fentanyl and charged with Possession of a Schedule Two Narcotic and Obstruction of Law Enforcement.

Also taken into custody were: April Millard of Sequatchie, Tenn., for Possession of a Schedule Two Narcotic, a warrant out of Jackson County, Ala., and Hindering the Apprehension of a Fugitive (felony) and Kimla Tolbert of Wildwood, James Janow Sr. of Wildwood, and James Janow III of Virginia Beach, Va., for Hindering the Apprehension of a Fugitive (felony).