Love is still in the air in Tennessee, and police officers are still getting themselves caught up in all kinds of on-duty extracurricular activities.
Last month’s love triangle involving officers with the Metro Nashville Police wasn’t the only one that took place in the state recently. There was one in Knoxville that had a little more to it than your average love triangle.
Knoxville Police Department investigation uncovered love triangle and inappropriate text scandal. (Getty Images)
One of the officers from the Knoxville Police Department involved in the love triangle was also exchanging flirtatious texts with the police chief. An internal investigation into the officer’s love triangle uncovered the texts.
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Jasmine Reed had been exchanging inappropriate messages with Chief Paul Noel, reports WBIR’s Katie Inman. Messages along the lines of the police chief inviting her to go out of town with him.
There were also reportedly statements about him wearing a wedding ring, but that he plays and is careful. The chief was suspended last week for a month and is under investigation for the messages.
Knoxville Police Department Chief Paul Noel speaks at a press conference at the Public Safety Complex on Huron Street in North Knoxville on Aug. 6, 2026. (USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect)
The text exchanges that went on for years with the chief didn’t show that there was a physical relationship between the two, reports WVLT. The same could not be said for Reed’s other investigation.
Reed was investigated and suspended after she was found to have had an affair with married Lieutenant Keith DeBow. An affair that included the two having sex on the job, according to WVLT.
DeBow’s wife, who also worked for the police department, Captain Tammy DeBow, was also suspended after she found out about the affair and sent text messages to Reed about it.
Keith DeBow retired prior to the internal complaint being filed and wasn’t investigated. The three were found to have not committed any criminal wrongdoing, just wrongdoing of the workplace variety.
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Reed admitted to the affair and reportedly told investigators that she and the lieutenant had sex multiple times on-duty in a relief trailer. They also would meet in a storage room to “make out and stuff.”
That making out and stuff, investigators found thanks to surveillance video, added up to 37 times the two entered the room together for a total of 8 hours and 7 minutes. That’s a lot of “and stuff.”
The City County Building in Knoxville, Tenn., houses city and county departments, including the General Sessions Court, main courthouse, police department, and civil and criminal courts. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Tammy’s actions, while understandable given the situation, were found to be inappropriate given her rank as a captain. That’s why she was suspended.
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On top of all of Reed’s drama involving her coworkers, she has also been investigated for her performance on the job too. She has reportedly been found to have mishandled evidence on as many as 20 separate occasions.
That’s not all that surprising given the text messages she was busy sending and the visits to a storage room she was making.
