Tennessee state Senator Jim Summerville has been arrested on assault and stalking charges Tennessee state Senator Jim Summerville is facing stalking and assault charges, a month after being arrested for public intoxication. The Dickson Police Department on Friday night arrested Summerville on a stalking charge filed by a neighbor and released on bail. Police said Summerville was arrested again on Saturday for assault after threatening the same neighbor. He was released on $10,000 bond. Neighbor Cecilia Donaven says she's filed several reports against the senator. 'We always have to have our guard up,' she told WSMV. 'It's no way for anyone to have to live.'
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Tennessee state Sen. Jim Summerville was arrested on a stalking charge filed by a neighbor in Dickson
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A day after being released on $10,000 bail, he was arrested again on an assault charge for allegedly threatening the same neighbor
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Last month, Summerville was charged with public intoxication after police said he sat in several people's yards—uninvited—drinking
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The senator denies the charges and says he will sue the city for $1million
'Every minute I'm in this house, he's watching me,' Donaven told @placeholder.