Scientology facilities in Tennessee closed after police find patients held against their will
By Chris Jancelewicz
Senior National Online Journalist, Entertainment Global News
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A group of psychiatric facilities owned and run by the Church of Scientology in Tennessee has been closed after local police found some patients being held against their will.

The Cannon Courier, out of Cannon County, Tenn. and nearby the Scientology facilities, reports that the buildings are now permanently closed and three suspects have been charged.

"[We] would like to make the general public of [the] county aware that the Scientology facilities are closed and [no longer] operating," read a statement released by the Cannon County Sheriff's Department.

Police discovered the facilities, which were no more than tiny cabins and one double-wide trailer, concealed in the wilderness and heavily secured. They described the scene as "a gated, makeshift paddock secured externally with a steel latch." ...



...After assessing the scene, the man was taken to an emergency room at a local hospital for care. When police later returned to the cabin and trailer armed with a search warrant, they discovered people hastily packing up and moving out all contents of the facilities.

The front gate's large locking mechanism was also removed. Later on, when the police searched another reported Scientology location, they discovered yet another "patient," this time a female. She too was transported to a local hospital and her family notified.

Well-known Scientology reporter Tony Ortega has been sounding the horn on these covert facilities for some time, citing examples of other people who have allegedly been held against their will — including severely mentally ill Scientologists — and who've suffered mental breakdowns in similar rural Tennessee facilities....



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Original news article from the Cannon County paper...

Cannon Scientology facilities CLOSED
May 3, 2017
http://www.cannoncourier.com/cannon-...osed-cms-16478