AMBER ALERT ISSUED FOR TENNESSEE TEEN, LAST SEEN WITH SEX OFFENDER

amber-alertAn AMBER Alert has been activated for a Hawkins County girl.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation reports 14-year-old Hayleigh Wilson left her Surgoinsville home on Monday night.

She was last seen at a Walmart in Marion, North Carolina on Tuesday wearing a flowery top and in the company of 41-year-old Benjamin ‘Ben’ Shook, a registered sex offender out of Georgia.

Shook has several tattoos and was wearing a blue shirt, with “Ford” written on it, dark shorts, a camouflage baseball hat.

Investigators believe they may have been driving in a maroon colored 2004 Ford Explorer Sport Trac with Tennessee tag D6020D.

If you have any information on Hayleigh Wilson or Ben Shook,  contact the Surgionsville Police Department at 423-272-7121 or call 1800-TBI-FIND.