Caitlin Markli	Aaron Bowling

A Knoxville couple was arrested Saturday afternoon after holding up two different pizza delivery people earlier that day.  Twenty-one year old Caitlin Markli and 21 year old Aaron F. Bowling are charged with two counts of aggravated robbery and are being held in the Knox County Jail.  A delivery person for Papa John’s said he went to the Quarry Trails Apartment Leasing office with a pizza shortly after midnight where the couple demanded his money and Bowling threatened him with a gun.  The two suspects ran on foot and about twenty minutes later had a pizza delivered from Domino’s to Gateway Apartments at Lippencott Street.  The delivery person was approached by the couple and they demanded his money.  The victim said that Bowling pointed a gun at him until he handed over his cash.  Again, both fled on foot.

Two Knox County Detectives tracked the couple to the Concord Skate Park on Northshore Drive just after 4 p.m.  Markli and Bowling admitted to planning and committing the robberies.  Officers got consent to search Markli’s vehicle and found a plastic pellet gun that matched the weapon used in the robberies.  Markli is being held under a $15,000 bond and Bowling under a $6,000 bond.

April Gillam

An argument led to a woman cutting her estranged husband with a steak knife early Thursday morning.  Thirty-two year old April Gillam was charged with aggravated assault after cutting 31 year old Robert Gillam on his shoulder at a house at 2418 Bowers Road.  She fled the scene and was arrested a short time later on Straw Plains Pike.  She is being held in the Knox County Jail on a $5,000 bond.   The suspect told officers that the victim struck her with a door and that the knife jumped out of the drawer and cut the victim.  She had no visible injuries.  The victim refused medical treatment.  The incident was reported shortly before 2 a.m. by the victim’s mother.