First Violation Of Probation

Sevier man gets jail time for parole violations

SEVIERVILLE - A politically connected Sevier County man is slated to report to jail today for violating his probation stemming from a 2009 vehicular homicide conviction.

Wesley G. Teaster, the 24-year-old grandson of longtime Pigeon Forge City Manager Earlene Teaster, was sentenced to 90 days in jail Monday after a judge determined he failed to report an Aug. 27 motor vehicle crash among other violations, including admittedly using illicit drugs.

"You have violated. This court cannot overlook that," Circuit Judge Ben Hooper said during the probation violation hearing in Sevier County.

Teaster, a former assistant baseball coach for Pigeon Forge High School, earned five years' probation after he pleaded guilty to reckless vehicular homicide for an August 2008 crash on Kingfisher Avenue in Sevierville. His passenger and fellow coach, Jeremy Chesney, 20, died in the wreck. Both men had blood alcohol levels above the legal limit, according to court records.

Teaster, represented by defense attorney Bryan Delius, had served less than a year of that probation Aug. 27 when police said he drifted into the wrong lane on U.S. Highway 441 in Pigeon Forge and struck a 2002 Pontiac Aztec driven by Tony Lamb, 26, of Waco, Texas. Teaster left the scene before police arrived, records show. Lamb told police he was driving north when Teaster's 1990 Cadillac crossed into the lane and hit the Aztec.

"He passed me and threw his hands up and kept driving," Lamb wrote in a statement to police.

Teaster showed up at police headquarters about an hour after the crash and told officers he'd been tuning his iPod while driving. They cited him with leaving the scene of an accident.

Then in November he was charged with violating the terms of his probation after his probation officer learned he'd been cited for the accident and failed to report it, according to court records.

The leaving the scene of the accident charge was later dismissed after another judge ruled Teaster was not properly Mirandized before he admitted his involvement in the crash, special prosecutor Steve Garrett said.

According to testimony while on probation Teaster also acknowledged taking Xanax without a prescription (December 2010) and using marijuana on June 20. An Alcoa Police Department officer also testified that on April 27 he cited Teaster for speeding - 73 mph in a 50 mph zone.

For the first time since the fatal crash, Teaster on Monday spoke to Chesney's parents - John and Lisa Chesney.

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