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You are here: Home / FEATURED POSTS / Police Briefs May 2

Police Briefs May 2

May 2, 2019 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

The following information is from East Ridge Police Department “pass along” reports.

May 01 – Day Shift

201 Eads Street:

A call was received from the office at the apartment complex after a tenant became hostile with an employee.  The caller advised that the tenant became argumentative with staff and refused to leave the office when they did not answer her hypothetical civil matter questions to her satisfaction.  Per the caller, the tenant started raising her voice and insulting the employee when they told her the office was closing.  The tenant left the office upon police arriving to the location. 

4214 Ringgold Road:

Juvenile 1, along with her parents, came to the East Ridge Police Department to report an incident involving sexually explicit text messages/video exchanged between her and Juvenile 2.  Juvenile 2 has threatened to share a video made by the Juvenile 1 unless Juvenile 1 agrees to have sex with Juvenile 2.  The investigation is ongoing.  *

May 01 – Night Shift

1474 Mack Smith Road:

Courtney Smith was arrested for driving on a suspended license, driving an unregistered vehicle, and financial responsibility.

3658 Ringgold Road:

East Ridge Police backed up the East Ridge Fire Department for a possible fire behind a business at this address.  The fire was extinguished. 

Ringgold Road / Germantown Road:

The caller advised there was a woman in the area of the intersection walking and smacking herself.  The woman was not located by police. 

3607 Ida Belle Lane:

A caller advised that multiple people were seen “messing” with his vehicles.  The caller said that all the people ran off when confronted.  Police searched the area but did not locate anyone.  None of the caller’s vehicles had been broken into. 

1417 Mack Smith Road:

Jerry Holt was arrested for public intoxication after the East Ridge Retirement Center staff complained about his behavior.  Police met with Mr. Holt and found that he had a strong presence of alcoholic beverage on his breath and demonstrated erratic and unsafe behavior. 

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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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