Overton County Health Department, with assistance from the National Guard, is conducting drive-thru COVID-19 testing.

On Monday, March 30, health department staff were assisted by Technical Sgt. Leigh Crane and Technical Sgt. Jonathan Crane from Air National Guard 118th Medical Group at Berry Field in Nashville, along with PFC David Mircea of Army National Guard 230th Signal Company in Nashville.

Technical Sgt. Leigh Crane said, “We’ll wave you in, we’ll collect your patient information, and we’ll do the testing. The testing itself takes about 10 seconds.”

The information taken is for contact purposes and will be kept confidential.

“You will be contacted by phone once your lab results come back,” she said.

Andy Langford, director of the Overton County Health Department, said, “We ask that people call the health department at 931-823-6260 for more information on possible assessment and testing about the COVID-19 virus.

“We’re right next to Livingston Academy on the bypass,” he added.

He express gratitude that Gov. Bill Lee has made the National Guard available to help.

“The National Guard is here as a humanitarian medical effort working with Overton County Health Department and we welcome them here to provide testing and free up some of our medical capabilities that we have here at the health department, but also private physicians to take some of the stress off them to try to increase assessment and testing during this time where we’ve been trying to deal with the COVID-19 disease,” Langford said.

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A stolen vehicle was recently recovered after Overton County Sheriff’s Department attempted a traffic stop.

On Saturday, March 21, Officer Timothy Reagan of the Overton County Sheriff’s Department was patrolling on Bethlehem Road around 8:57 p.m. when a white Chevrolet S10 nearly hit his unit.

After noticing the vehicle, Reagan turned on his lights and sirens and pursued the vehicle, according to the OCSD report. The driver then fled at a high rate of speed, running through the Bethlehem and Rickman Road stop sign.

The vehicle turned onto Okolona Road and when it reached Meadowbrook Circle, it spun out in the yard of a residence at 103 Okolona Road, resulting in damage to the lawn, according to OCSD. The vehicle finally came to a stop in the Livingston Statuary parking lot. The driver then exited the vehicle and took off on foot.

When Reagan caught the driver, she was identified as Destiny Tirey, 31, of Rickman.

The passenger then exited the vehicle, and he was ordered to lie on the ground and was detained; he was identified as Brandon Speck, 40, of Livingston.

While searching the vehicle, 13 syringes, one meth pipe, and two baggies containing 1.4 grams of meth were found, according to Reagan’s report.

After running the tags, the information showed that the vehicle had been stolen out of Putnam County on February 27.

Neither of the subjects admitted to the possession of meth or paraphernalia.

Tirey was charged with vandalism, possession of drug paraphernalia, manufacture, delivery, sale, or possession of meth, theft of property, evading arrest on foot, and evading arrest in a motor vehicle.

Speck was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, and manufacture, delivery, sale or possession of meth.

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Livingston Police Department, along with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and District Attorney Bryant Dunaway is conducing an investigation into the death of a 19-year-old Michigan woman found dead in a car parked in Overton Plaza on Sunday morning, March 29.

According to reports, LPD responded to the scene around 6:30 a.m. after a passenger in the car had called for help saying the woman was not breathing.

TBI reportedly identified the deceased as Emilee Anne Christopher, of Port Huron, Michigan.

An autopsy of her body was to be performed, according to DA Dunaway.