Man arrested for sexual battery inside Signal Mountain Walmart

(Courtesy: Hamilton County Jail)

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- A Signal Mountain man has been arrested for an incident police say happened in a local Walmart.

According to an affidavit we obtained from Hamilton County General Session Court, it says that 59 year old Michael Levan was arrested and charged on one count of sexual battery.

In the affidavit, it says that a woman told police Levan began following her inside of the Walmart on Signal Mountain Road on the evening of March 18, 2024.

She reported that he touched her without consent and then says that Levan began asking her suggestive questions such as that he was going to “help her out of the store” and “she could go with him”.

Police say they reviewed store footage tape which confirmed the woman’s story, and were able to track down Levan through his credit card information and vehicle which had left the scene.

He was arrested over the weekend, and was booked into the Hamilton County Jail.

He has since bonded out and is awaiting a General Sessions court hearing.