A former Knox County Schools security officer is arrested for sexual exploitation of minor.

KCSO said Anthony Roy Bennett allegedly distributed pictures of minors having sex or simulating sex.

KCSO said Bennett was arrested on 22 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor last month. He was fired before his arrest and placed on administrative leave.

KCSO said Bennett is being held on a $75,000 bond.
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A 21-year-old man is missing from Knoxville.

KPD said Dawson Miller was reported missing by his sister after she had not heard from him since Sept. 10.

Crime Stoppers said the Tennessee Valley Fair was in town at the time Miller was last seen and left home saying he was going to join a road crew.

KPD said Miller is 6’3″, 155 pounds with black hair and blue eyes. He was last seen in the 3600 block on Magnolia Avenue wearing an orange shirt, blue jeans and Adidas shoes.

If you have any information contact the East TN Valley Crime Stoppers. We have his photo on our website, Newstalk987.com.

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Two juveniles are dead after overdosing on Benadryl.

Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said police responded to a CPR call at Plains Academy and found two 15-year-old girls unconscious and unresponsive.

Police said the girls stole several packs and a bottle of Benadryl from the nurse’s station at the facility the night before. Both became ill and fell unconscious the following morning after taking an undetermined amount of the medication.

Police said one of girls was pronounced dead at Sango Emergency room on Nov. 29 and the other died at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital yesterday.

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