Chronology of Events

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Chronology of Events

• March 12, 2005 through
• March 23, 2005

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Sunday, March 13, 2005

• Chad Tindell received a telephone call from Tyler
  Harber. In his discussion, Harber complained to
  Tindell about a statement that Tindell had made
  only one time, in an email on the previous
  evening. Tindell suspected that Harber had
  access to either his computer or his email
  account

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Monday, March 14, 2005

• Tyler Harber accessed Chad Tindells personal
  email account, without permission, at
  bellsouth.net (tindellc_at_bellsouth.net) on Todd
  Cooks computer at the Knox County Probation
  Office. These emails were copied on the copying
  machine in the front secretarial area

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Monday, March 14, 2005

• Tyler Harber delivered numerous emails involving
  five individuals to the office of the Knox
  County Mayor on Monday, March 15, 2005.

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Monday, March 14, 2005

• Mike Ragsdale left copies of emails from Gay
  Drinnen to Chad Tindell dated Monday, March 14,
  2005 at 1234 a.m. and 1049 a.m. in Gary
  Drinnenss chair at his cubicle in the Mayors
  office.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

• Gary Drinnon found copies of his personal email
  communications with Tammy Miller, Chad Tindell,
  and Suzie Alcorn in his chair upon arriving to
  work.
• Mike Arms stated that Mike Ragsdale left the
  emails so he would know.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

• Tyler Harber told Mike Arms that Tyler had
  retrieved and copied the emails left at the
  mayors office on Monday, March 14, 2005.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

• Mike Arms told Mike Ragsdale that Tyler Harber
  was the source of the email.
• There was a discussion amongst Arms, Ragsdale,
  Dwight Van de Vate, and Allison Wagley that
  Harber needed to be asked to resign.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

• In response to the question- How did you end up
  with the email?
• Ragsdale responded I dont know, I came back
  from lunch and they were there in his in-box on
  Monday, March 14, 2005.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

• Ragsdale mislead Sheriff Hutchison when Ragsdale
  suggested that someone in Chads group forwarded
  the emails.
• Ragsdale again stated that he did not know, did
  not have the first clue as to who sent the emails.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

• Adam Groves interviewed by DJ, Keith Lyon and
  Bryant.
• Groves originally consented to computer being
  analyzed, then revoked. Search Warrant issued.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

• Tyler Harber, while under surveillance, began
  driving in a reckless manner. He was stopped and
  issued a citation for reckless driving.
• Mr. Harber responded I do not know what you are
  talking about when asked about cooperating in
  the email investigation.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

• Tyler Harber drove to the Andrew Johnson
  Building, obtained his Knox County computer, and
  hid that computer in the basement of the Andrew
  Johnson Building.

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Thursday, March 17, 2005

• At 900 a.m., Tyler Harber told Mike Arms that
  the Knox County computer assigned to Harber was
  missing.
• At 930 a.m., Harber met with Mike Ragsdale, Mike
  Arms, Dwight Van de Vate in Mike Arms office.

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Thursday, March 17, 2005

• Harber told Arms, Ragsdale, and Van de Vate that
  he had used Chad Tindells username and password
  to access Chad Tindells personal email.
• Harber reiterated that he did not know the
  location of the Knox County computer assigned to
  him.
• Mike Arms informed Todd Cook of the situation.

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March 17, 2005

• At approximately 400 p.m., Bryant asked Cook
  about obtaining Harbers computer for analysis.
  Cook stated that it was Ragsdales decision.
• At approximately 800 p.m. Cook, by telephone
  told Bryant that the Knox Sheriffs Office could
  have Tyler Harbers computer.

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Friday, March 18, 2005

• Tyler Harber sent a memo to Todd Cook detailing
  the fact that the laptop and desktop computers
  were in Harbers office on March 16, 2005 at 745
  p.m. and were discovered missing on Thursday,
  March 17, 2005.

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March 21, 2005

• Harber directed Todd Cook, Dick Moran, and Jon
  Gustin to the pilfered Knox County computer
  located behind an air conditioning duct in the
  basement of the Andrew Johnson building.

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

• Todd Cook left a voicemail for Dick Moran
  detailing his discovery of evidence that Tyler
  Harber had used Cooks computer and requesting
  someone from Knox County Information Technology
  to maybe look at my machine, see if hes put
  anything on it

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

• Tyler Harbers laptop computer was delivered by
  an unknown carrier to Jay Witt, an employee of
  Todd Cook.

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Analysis of the various digital storage devices

• Cooks computer March 3 to March 22 system
  logs gone
• Harber laptop
• Harber desktop
• Harber pindrive
• Harber Blackberry

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CRIMINAL OFFENSES

• Computer Offenses
• Obstruction Offenses False Reports Tamper
  ing with Evidence

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TYLER HARBER

• 39-14-602(b)(1) prohibits intentional access
  without authorization of computer.
• 39-14-602(b) (5)Makes or causes to be made an
  unauthorized copy, in any form, including, but
  not limited to, any printed or electronic form of
  computer data, computer programs, or computer
  software residing in, communicated by, or
  produced by a computer or computer network
  commits an offense punishable as provided in
  39-14-105.

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Evidence Tampering

• 39-16-503 states that (a) It is unlawful for any
  person, knowing that an investigation or official
  proceeding is pending or in progress, to
• (1) Alter, destroy, or conceal any record,
  document or thing with intent to impair its
  verity, legibility, or availability as evidence
  in the investigation or official proceeding
  or(2) Make, present, or use any record, document
  or thing with knowledge of its falsity and with
  intent to affect the course or outcome of the
  investigation or official proceeding.

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TYLER HARBER

• Tyler Harber hid the Knox County owned desktop
  computer with the intent to impair its
  availability as evidence.
• Tyler Harber did not return the pin drive used by
  him during his employment at Knox County, and
  indeed impaired its availability as evidence.

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TODD COOK

• Todd Cooks computer has the system logs deleted
  from March 3, 2005 through March 22, 2005.

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False Reports

• 39-16-502 states that It is unlawful for any
  person to make a report or statement in response
  to a legitimate inquiry by a law enforcement
  officer concerning a material fact about an
  offense or incident within the officer's concern,
  knowing that such report or statement is false
  and with the intent to obstruct or hinder the
  officer from apprehending or locating another
  person suspected of committing an offense.

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TODD COOK

• With knowledge that Harber was claiming that KCSO
  had his computers, stated that that the KCSO
  could have Harbers computer for analysis.

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MIKE RAGSDALE

• I dont know, I came back from lunch and they
  were there in his in-box on Monday, March 14,
  2005.
• Ragsdale again stated that he did not know, did
  not have the first clue as to who sent the emails.

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Ancillary Issues

• Rebecca Smith Despite the belief that
  Rebecca Smith needed to be terminated for cause,
  Rebecca Smith was paid 4,000 upon the
  termination of her employment with the mayors
  office because, because, as explained by Arms, I
  mean it was one of thoseyour calling a state
  senator saying were terminating your daughter.

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Ancillary Issues

• Tyler Harbers employment with Knox County,
  Tennessee. it is readily apparent that
  Harber was a problem employee, had no set job
  description, did no probation work and attended
  to Mike Ragsdales political agenda.
• Adam Groves stated Quote