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You are here: Home / Crime News / Law and Order Feb. 7

Law and Order Feb. 7

February 7, 2025 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

The following information is courtesy of the East Ridge Police Department.

Day Shift February 6

25-001326-3500 BLK Ringgold Road- Theft – The manager reported that a party entered the business and stole items. The party was identified via her driver’s license picture, and staff confirmed that she was the suspect. Warrants will be sought on this party for theft of property.

25-001327 – 3900 BLK Ringgold Road – Suspicious Activity – Police responded after a caller reported a homeless party was possibly establishing a campsite in between the store and the neighboring business. Officers checked the area between the stores; however, they did not locate anyone, only piles of old trash and refuse.

Night Shift February 6: D Squad

25-001340 – 4000 BLK Woodmont – Domestic disorder – The caller requested her niece be trespassed from the property after she refused to leave. She stated that the woman has issues with alcohol and drugs and did not want her at the residence.

25-001345 – 1500 BLK Waterhouse Street – Check Wellbeing / Warrant Service – Officers contacted the reporting party after she requested a well-being check on the resident who lives at the above address. She was, however, found to have two East Ridge warrants, both for theft of property. She was taken into custody and transported to the Hamilton County Jail without issue.

25-001348– 3700 BLK Fountain Ave – Property – The victim reported her car’s tires being slashed after it had been parked at the apartments for approximately two days. She believed she knew the suspect, but no proof or video of the incident was available.

25-001356 – 4300 BLK Ringgold Road – Suspicious Person – Police observed a bicyclist without a light after dark. The rider cooperated with the officer and agreed to a field interview. He was negative for warrants and consented to a search.

Filed Under: Crime News, FEATURED POSTS, News

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.


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