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You are here: Home / Crime News / Police Briefs for Jan. 4

Police Briefs for Jan. 4

January 4, 2016 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

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_ 3695 Shirl Jo Ln.: Police were dispatched to the address Sunday on an auto burglary. According to an affidavit of complaint, while en route police were advised that the suspect was inside a white convertible rummaging through it. The report states that when an officer arrived the suspect was sitting in the front seat of the car and the officer gave a command for the man to get out of the car. The man got out of the car but did not obey commands from police to get on the ground, the report states. The man got half way on his stomach and got back up several times while reaching underneath his body and into his pockets against the officer’s commands, the report states. Once the man was in custody, police located a small baggie in the man’s pocket with a crystal-like substance inside. The man admitted to officers that he made an unlawful entry into the car, the report states, but he added that he was just looking for a place to sleep for the night. The man continued to give officers problems once he was in custody, the report states. Police also found a pen that was burned on the end, the report states. Officers believe the man was using the device to possibly smoke drugs. While at the Hamilton County Jail, the man once again admitted to unlawfully entering the car. Officers back at Shirl Jo found a second victim whose car was broken into, the report states. Police charged Jamie Stone, a 27-year-old homeless man with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Burglary of an Auto, Resisting Stop, Frisk and Halt and Possession of a Controlled Substance. He is due to appear in Municipal Court on Jan. 5.

_ Police have charged a McBrien Road man with Domestic Assault. According to an affidavit of complaint, police were called to a McBrien Road address on New Year’s Day on a disorder. Officers were told that the people involved in the disorder were at a nearby address. Officers made contact with a woman who said that her father, Sanford Lee Roberts, had assaulted her. The victim told officers that Roberts had gotten mad at her because she blocked some phone numbers on this cell phone. The woman told officers he started yelling and shouting profanities at her and demanded that she unlock the phone numbers. According to the report, the victim told police that Roberts backed her into a corner, grabbed her wrists, kicked her and threw her on the ground. The victim told police that she ran from the house yelling for help. A passerby told officers that he saw Roberts chasing his daughter while she was yelling for help. The passerby told officers that he attempted to help the woman and that Roberts confronted him and threatened to kill him. The passerby, the report states, punched and kicked him during the incident. Roberts was charged with Domestic Assault and jailed on a $5,000 bond. 

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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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