A Greene County grand jury that met on Monday returned presentments against a Mosheim-area man on six counts of criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder.

Criminal Court capiases (arrest documents) that had been issued after the grand jury acted were served by Deputy Sheriff Chuck Humphreys on Tuesday at the Greene County Detention Center on Joshua Brent Worex, 31, formerly of 2160 Carpenters Chapel Road.

Worex was being at the detention center on a charge of evidence tampering.

Bond for Worex on the criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder charges was set at $150,000 and he was scheduled to appear for arraignment in Greene County Criminal Court on Sept. 4.

One capias said Worex was indicted on two counts of criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder. A second capias said Worex had been indicted on four more counts of criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder.

The capiases served on Worex did not specify details of the charges against him.

However, a Sheriff's Department spokesman said the charges were related to a pair of incidents in which multiple gunshots were fired into a pair of occupied Greene County mobile homes in 2007 and 2008.

In May, a Greene County grand jury indicted another former 2160 Carpenters Chapel Road resident, Sean Lyons, 36, on six counts of criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder.

Those charges, Sheriff's Detective Sgt. Mike Fincher said in May, had been filed in connection with a Nov. 1, 2007, incident in which Lyons allegedly fired shots into a Midway mobile home and a Sept. 14, 2008, incident in which shots were fired into an occupied mobile home on Greystone Road.

Lyons was indicted in May for the attempted first-degree murders of Nancy and Jeff Piatt, who were inside the mobile home at the time those shots were fired into it, according to Fincher.

Lyons also was indicted in connection with a Sept. 14, 2008, incident in which gunshots were fired into a Greystone Road mobile home occupied by two adults and two children, one of whom was wounded by a gunshot.

A report filed by Deputy Sheriff Howard Gale on Sept. 14, 2008, said John Hensley told deputies that his son, Gabriel, 3, had been wounded in the leg by one of the gunshots that struck a residence in the 7000 block of Greystone Road where the Hensleys were visiting.

The boy recovered from his wound after treatment at the Johnson City Medical Center, officers said.

Another child and two adults, including John Hensley, escaped injury.

Lyons continues to be held at the Greene County Detention Center pending arraignment in Greene County Criminal Court on Friday.