DRESDEN, Tenn. – Deputies arrested a long-distance trucker for a stabbing at a Wisconsin truck stop the night before. He had put 660 miles on his truck after driving off from the truck stop at West Salem, east of LaCrosse off Interstate 90. Paul Douglas Stokes, age 59, was taken without resistance. After the stabbing of a fellow trucker — a stranger — Stokes apparently headed south from LaCrosse on U.S. 35 to Genoa, 20 miles away. He had a scheduled delivery in Genoa but didn’t stop and kept on going. About 2 p.m. authorities spotted Stokes; red and white semi rig southbound on U.S. 45 near Hickory, Kentucky. He crossed the state line into Tennessee. a\An hour later Weakley County deputies apprehended Stokes southbound on State Highway 22 near Dresden. In Wisconsin the La Crosse County district attorney secured a extraditable arrest warrant on charges of recklessly endangering safety and battery.
Stokes. Held in Weakley County jail in Dresden, Tennessee.