After the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation posted an endangers child alert last week, a woman is now facing kidnapping charges for the incident.
According to the Smithville Police Department, 28-year-old Sarah Tiana Harrison of York Highway, Gainesboro was arrested last Thursday on the kidnapping charge. She is under an $18,000 bond and will appear court on September 28.
According to the complaint, “On September 13, 2023, at approximately 1 p.m. Sarah Tiana Harrison did abduct Jameson Ferrell, her seven-year-old son from his home on West Broad Street in Smithville. Harrison does not have custody of Jameson and per court order is to have no contact with him. Full custody had been given to Jameson’s father David.”
The alert described the child, his non-custodial mother, and her 2018 Hyundai Sonata. Not long after the endangered child alert was issued, the child was reportedly found safe in Byrdstown. The case was investigated by Lieutenant Detective James Cornelius of the Smithville Police Department.