Police located Brandon Petrey, 27, in Whitley County and arrested him at 10:09 p.m. Sunday "without incident," Kentucky State Trooper First Class Don Trosper said today. Petrey is being held in Whitley County Jail, charged on two local bench warrants, and is awaiting extradition to Knox County, where he faces a charge of attempted second-degree murder in the incident, with a bond of $250,000, authorities said. According to the Knox County Sheriff's Office, Petrey, as part of a two-man landscaping job in the River Bend subdivision off Northshore Drive, was going down the street cutting shrubs and branches with a chainsaw when he came to 1835 Schriver Road. The two men got into an altercation, and the victim's thumb was injured.
– So it's not exactly the Tennessee chain saw massacre, but it does involve a crime and a chainsaw: Police arrested 27-year-old Brandon Petrey yesterday on a charge of attempted second-degree murder after a day of landscaping went awry. Petrey and a co-worker were cutting tree branches and shrubs in a subdivision in Knox County, Tenn., on Saturday, when a man asked them not to cut along his parents' property. An argument ensued, and Petrey reportedly cut the man's thumb, reports the Knoxville News Sentinel. The unnamed victim was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Read the full article.