_ 1441 N. Smith Street: Police were dispatched to the Holiday Inn Express on Wednesday morning on a suspicious person complaint. According to a police report, the desk clerk told officers that a woman had been lingering in the lobby restroom for about an hour. The clerk told officers that she suspected the woman may […]

Three men were arrested and charged with Aggravated Assault after a late-night fight on Delaware Avenue. Police were called to the 5000 block of Delaware just before midnight on Monday in reference to a “fight in progress.” According to a police report, when officers arrived they found a man bleeding profusely from his mouth and […]

A tip from a woman to an officer sitting in her car at the East Ridge Police Department led to the arrest of two men in a local motel on drugs and prostitution charges. According to a police report, Officer Lexi Whittenburg was sitting in her patrol car on Saturday when a woman who “has […]

On Friday, East Ridge police captured a man wanted in Florida for sex crimes involving children. According to a police report, a “be on the lookout” was issued for Bradley Allen Pitts. Florida officials had “pinged” the man’s cellphone and determined that it was in the Interstate 75 area in the jurisdiction of East Ridge […]

East Ridge police investigators are trying to determine who may have fired several gunshots outside the End Zone, early Sunday morning. According to a police report, two  ERPD officers was sitting in their squad cars outside Little Caesars Pizza at 2:27 Sunday morning  when they heard several gunshots coming from the area of the End […]

A woman is due to appear in East Ridge Municipal Court on Tuesday on a charge of Child Abuse after giving birth to a baby allegedly addicted to drugs. Jacqueline Nicole McRoberts, 31, of a Pleasant Street address, was arrested only last week. According to an affidavit of complaint, McRoberts gave birth to a child […]

An elderly woman has lost her home and savings after being systematically bilked out of as much as $40,000 by scam artists. According to a police report, an officer was dispatched to the parking lot of Parkridge East Hospital on Tuesday evening to check on the well being of a woman who had been sitting […]