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You are here: Home / Crime News / Law and Order Dec. 17

Law and Order Dec. 17

December 17, 2025 By Dick Cook Leave a Comment

The following information is courtesy of the East Ridge Police Department.

Day Shift December 16 : B Squad

25-012938- 1600 BLK Dodds Ave – Assist Other Agency – Chattanooga Police requested an East Ridge police officer to respond to a possible kidnapping due to a language barrier, as all involved parties spoke Spanish. The East Ridge Officer arrived on scene and assisted Chattanooga Police.

25-012945- 6200 BLK Ringgold Road- Traffic Stop/Arrest – Following a traffic stop and a brief struggle, a man was taken into custody and charged with resisting arrest and possession of methamphetamine. He also had multiple warrants out of Hamilton County Sessions Court and Catoosa County Georgia.

25-012947 – 5500 BLK Ringgold Road– Traffic stop/Arrest – Police conducted a traffic stop on a silver Honda Civic displaying a stolen Tennessee license plate. The occupants were identified. A male subject was found to have active parole violations out of Georgia. While officers attempted to detain him, he resisted and was subsequently found in possession of approximately 0.4 grams of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. He was charged with resisting arrest, simple possession of schedule II drugs, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Night Shift December 16: D Squad

25-021953 – 3300 BLK Gleason Circle – Well-Being Check – Police checked the well-being of a resident after a neighbor reported hearing an alarm coming from inside the home beeping continuously since Sunday. The resident was eventually contacted and discovered to be out of town.

25-012954- 5700 BLK Roper Street- Disorder – Police were called to this address after the neighbor reported hearing yelling coming from a nearby apartment. The caller stated it also sounded like a possible assault was taking place. Police contacted the residents in the apartment, who said they’ve been having an issue with the neighbor calling the police with numerous complaints when he hears loud noises.

25-012959 – 400 BLK Garcia Lane – Auto Theft – A resident reported his vehicle was missing from his driveway and wanted to report it stolen. Police reviewed LPR records taken by a commercial tag reader in the caller’s driveway in the timeframe it went missing. The owner admitted he was behind on payments. An officer advised the owner to contact the financial lien holder because the bank had repossessed the car.

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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