Suspect in Custody for Dollar General Robbery

A woman was taken into custody by Chattanooga Police officers and is considered a suspect in the robbery of the Dollar General Stores on Sunday.

According to East Ridge Police Department officials, officers were dispatched to the Dollar General at 3920 Ringgold Road at about 8:30 p.m. The victim of the robbery told police that a black woman came into the store, brandished a pink handgun and ordered her to give her the money in the drawer.

The woman was last seen driving west bound on Ringgold Road, said ERPD Capt. Tim Mullinax.

Capt. Mullinax said that Chattanooga police responded to three other Dollar General Stores that had been robbed by the same suspect on Sunday. CPD took three suspects into custody. Officials said one of those suspects is 22-year-old Ebony Cousin. No warrants have been issued at this time, officials said.

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.