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Police Briefs for March 27

March 27, 2019 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article 0 Comments

The following information was provided by the East Ridge Police Department from its “pass along” reports of Tuesday, March 26.

3600 Shirl Jo Lane: Officers responded to apartment 101 and spoke with a woman who advised that Michael Weaver attempted to steal her vehicle this morning and ended up crashing into a neighbor’s car.

1419 Wright Street: A man reported the theft of two Redmax gas operated weed eaters and a one-gallon gas can.  The items were stolen between the hours of 7:00 and 8 p.m. on 03/24/19.

1517 Tombras Avenue: Anna Harris was arrested on an active East Ridge warrant after arriving at City Hall to pay fines.  After being placed into custody it was discovered that she was in possession of marijuana and methamphetamine.  Additional charges were filed. 

1535 Rugby Place: Police responded to this location for a possible burglary in progress.  The caller advised he was awoken by the sound of someone knocking on the front of his home.  He said the knocking noise continued for an extended period until he heard glass break.  He said the sound of the glass breaking was coming from one of the windows on the front of his house.  The complainant advised that he entered the front room and observed an unknown person’s arm, wrapped in dark polyester-type clothing, protruding through the damaged window.  The complainant said he verbally challenged the suspect, who then ran from the scene in an unknown direction.

1535 S. Rugby Place: A resident reported that someone entered her Dodge Caravan and stole a variety of items.  She reported vandalism to the dashboard of her vehicle.  During the time of the reported incident, dispatch had received several calls from citizens reporting a suspicious male walking in the vicinity looking into vehicles and houses.  Michael Weaver was encountered in the parking lot at 3600 Shirl Jo Lane.  Mr. Weaver was wearing a jacket that had been stolen from the woman’s vehicle.  Mr. Weaver was also in possession of a white Mongoose and two fishing poles.  Mr. Weaver was placed into custody.

3600 Shirl Jo Lane: Michael Weaver and Daniel Gross were arrested for vehicle burglary after police located several items that were stolen from his next-door neighbor’s car inside of his mother’s vehicle.  Police spoke with his mother and she advised that Weaver had possession of the vehicle.

6106 Bermuda Terrace: Police responded to this location on missing juvenile report after the juvenile did not return home from school.  The juvenile was entered into NCIC as missing.  Later, around 10:07 p.m., the juvenile returned home and was removed from NCIC as missing. 

3907 Sells Drive: Two workers at this address called police to report a theft.  The two subjects stated they had been working on the construction site at this address and noticed their license plates were missing off their vehicles when they finished their work for the day.  Both license plate numbers were entered into NCIC. 

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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