Here is your Cleveland, Tenn. | Bradley County, Tenn. news on mymix1041.com, sponsored by Toyota of Cleveland: From NewsChannel 9… A federal grand j
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A federal grand jury has indicted a Cleveland man for his role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
Joseph Lino Padilla faces 12 charges including assaulting officers using a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct and physical violence on Capitol grounds.
Court documents say Padilla is accused of throwing a flagpole at Capitol police then bragging about his actions on Facebook.
Federal officers arrested Padilla on February 23rd outside of his apartment in Cleveland.
Padilla is now in custody in Washington D.C. There’s no word yet on his next court date.
Tennessee Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey says the state is on track to make every adult resident eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine before the federal deadline of May 1st.
Dr. Piercey says it’s a balancing act of when to move on to the next phase in eligibility and one of those factors is demand. She says right now, more than 1.3 million Tennesseans or about 17.5% of the population have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
The commissioner said uptake is one thing putting the state at the bottom of vaccine distribution in the country.
That means hundreds of thousands of vaccines are open right now with rural Tennessee health departments – and many are going unfilled.
Piercey says right now, in East Tennessee, 50% of appointments at rural health departments are left open.
Tennessee Department of Health officials say they are developing a strategy to accelerate through phases of the vaccination plan while balancing vaccine supply and demand.
In news today…
On March 15th, investigators with the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office arrested Matthew Baumgartner of Delano, Tenn. for several burglaries and thefts.
BCSO detectives obtained warrants after several months of investigation relating to business burglaries on Waterlevel Highway SE and North Lee Highway. Baumgartner committed burglary of a garage and vehicle on Hampton Drive SE, and stole a commercial lawn mower worth over $10,000 from inside the maintenance facility at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Baumgartner was booked into the Bradley County Jail, charged with four counts of Burglary, two counts of Theft over $2,500.00 and one count of Theft over $10,000.
