Chattanooga Woman Arrested on Drug Charges at Theater Parking Lot

Early Sunday morning at about 2:40 a.m., East Ridge officers made a significant drug arrest.

According to information from ERPD, officers on Charlie shift along with Crime Suppression made contact with a female party in the parking lot of the AMC Theater. After observing drug paraphernalia and narcotics in plain view inside the vehicle, a search was conducted.

Officers found 76.6 grams (659 dosage units) of pressed Fentanyl pills, assorted drug paraphernalia, and $1,020 in cash.

According to police, Shonique Nechelle Smith, 32, of a Carousel Road address in Chattanooga, was charged with Possession of Fentanyl for Resale and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. She is being held at the Hamilton County Jail on a $90,000 bond. She is due to appear in East Ridge Municipal Court next Tuesday.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.