Paris, Tenn.—A Paris man is being held without bond for parole violation and on $10,000 bond on other charges after he attempted to evade arrest.
James W. Yon, Jr., age 55, of 211 Cook St., was arrested by Henry County Deputies Kyle Waldron and William Whitaker when they went to his house to search for Yon on the parole warrants.
According to the report, Yon ran out the back door and Whitaker found him trying to hide by a storage shed. Deputies searched the ground by the shed and found a container which contained a substance believed to be meth.
He was charged with evading arrest and drug charges in addition to the parole violations.