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You are here: Home / Crime News / Police Briefs for March 11

Police Briefs for March 11

March 11, 2022 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

The following information was compiled from ERPD “pass along reports.”

March 9 Day Shift

22-003270- I-24 West- Aggravated Assault/Road Rage-

The complainant called to advised she was a victim of a road rage incident. She advised the incident began when she attempted to change lanes at the I-75 north split onto I-24 west and a driver in a gray SUV became agitated. The woman stated the gray SUV baring GA plate CRG3778 with a white male driver with brown hair started following her, then around the 183 mile marker on I-24 he pulled up beside her, rolled his driver side window down, and brandished a black handgun. The woman stated she then got off at the 4th Ave exit in Chattanooga to deter any additional problems. Complainant could not offer any further description on the driver and stated she was more focused on the gun at the time.

22-003276- 500 block of McBrien Road- Evading-

While on patrol police observed a silver BMW speeding and confirmed its speed as 53 MPH in a 30 MPH zone. When the vehicle passed, police observed what appeared to be a male operating the vehicle. A traffic stop was conducted. As the officer approached the vehicle the driver fled the stop north on McBrien Road. This investigation is ongoing. Warrants pending identification of the driver.

22-003278- 700 block Flinn Drive- Missing Person-

The caller advised of a male subject that has been missing for about two weeks. She advised he is a drug addict and could be suicidal. On scene police spoke with a woman. She advised her thirty-one-year-old son is currently missing. While speaking to her police determined her son to have active warrants for his arrest, and federal officers with Homeland Security attempting to locate him.

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 Night Shift

22-003309 Assist Other Agency:

Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department asked for assistance at Moore and Brainerd Rd. to set a perimeter for a suspect that fled on foot following a pursuit. The suspect, Marc Smith, Aka Cash, was not located. Later ERPD witnessed his mother leaving her home on Gleason Drive and surveilled her to the location where officers had last seen Smith. Officers observed Smith come from behind a house and enter her vehicle. A stop was conducted, and Smith was taken into custody without incident and turned over to the Sheriff’s Office.

22-003306: 1410 Mack Smith Rd/Narcotics Arrest:

Officers were dispatched to the parking lot of the Budgetel in reference to a subject who had fallen asleep behind the wheel.  The subject was identified and found to be in possession of marijuana THC gummies (7g). A consent search of his hotel room # 4209 yielded pressed “m box 30” fentanyl pills (2)—a misdemeanor citation was issued.

22-003308: 1410 Mack Smith Rd/Aggravated Domestic Assault:

While investigating the narcotics violation above, officers observed signs of an assault involving lacerations to the neck and abdomen of a male subject.  He advised that he and his girlfriend had been in a fight earlier in the day in which she cut him with box cutters. Rescue responded and treated him for his injuries. He refused transport. His girlfriend left the hotel earlier in the day. Warrants will be sought.

Waterhouse/ Everglades (Warrant Service)22-003304:

Catoosa County arrested Travis Allen on a Walker County warrant, following ERPD traffic stop that rolled into Catoosa County. 

3600 Ringgold Road (22-003311)

Maleah Afman was arrested on a Putman County warrant during a traffic stop at this location.

 

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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