MARYVILLE (WATE) - A Maryville man is in custody following a stand-off Tuesday night with Blount County sheriff's deputies.
David Frederick Mauffray, 48, of Atchley
Drive, is
charged with three counts of aggravated assault and one count of aggravated
burglary.
Deputies responded to a
residence on Villa Court around 10:30 p.m.
The complainant said he was standing in his driveway with
his roommate when Mauffray approached them, threatened them with a knife and
told them he was going to burn down their house.
A woman who lives next door to Mauffray told deputies
he came into her house uninvited, brandishing a knife. The sheriff's office says the woman told him to get
out, but he stabbed the knife into a table and tried to put a jar of
moonshine in her refrigerator.
When the woman asked Mauffray to leave again, he allegedly pulled his
knife from the table and left.
Deputies tried to make contact with Mauffray
at his home, but he refused to come out. The sheriff's office says he screamed obscenities and made
threats out the window instead.
After about an hour and a half of
negotiations, Mauffray stepped onto the porch and was taken into
custody.
Mauffray is being held in the Blount County Correctional Facility on bonds totaling $20,000 for the Tuesday night charges. He's also being held without bond on two violations of probation and two attachments.
He's scheduled to be in court on June 25.
David Frederick Mauffray (source: Blount County Sheriff's Office)
