KINGSPORT MAN ARRESTED IN RAPE INVESTIGATION IN WEST TENNESSEE

A Kingsport man has been arrested in a West Tennessee rape investigation. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation reports that 27-year-old Jordan Daniel Ballard was identified as the person of interest for the kidnapping and raping of a woman in Lake County last Wednesday. Ballard was arrested on Friday and was charged with one count of especially aggravated kidnapping, one count of aggravated rape, one count of aggravated assault, one count of aggravated assault, and one count of interference with an emergency call. He has been booked into the Lake County Jail.  

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