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Police Briefs for March 16

March 16, 2017 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

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_ 1420 Dover Ln.: Police were dispatched to an “unknown trouble” call at the address on Thursday. According to an affidavit of complaint, while an officer was en route to the location, dispatchers advised him that they heard “a male stating that he was going to kill her.”

When the officer arrived, the report states, he encountered a man trying to back a Cadillac out of the driveway. The officer got the car stopped and asked the individual, later identified as Kenneth Lowe, to get out of the Cadillac. Lowe told the officer that he had been in an argument with his girlfriend over sex. The report states that the officer spoke with the victim who said that she and Lowe had been out drinking earlier in the evening. When they got home, she said, Lowe wanted to have sex and she did not.

Kenneth Lowe - Copy

Kenneth Lowe

The report states that at that time Lowe kicked her in the back and punched her in the face, prompting the victim to call police for help. While on the phone with dispatch, the victim told police that Lowe said he was going to kill her. The woman told officers that this was not the first time that she and her boyfriend had had a physical altercation. The report states that the victim told officers Lowe had been arrested in 2015 for striking her.

Lowe, 50, of a Slaton Avenue address in Chattanooga, was arrested and charged with Domestic Assault. He is due to appear in East Ridge Municipal Court on April 11.

 

_ 1503 McDonald Rd.: Police were called to the Waverly motel on Wednesday morning  to investigate “unknown trouble.”  According to an affidavit of complaint, officers were advised by dispatchers that multiple phone calls were coming in from a woman who appeared to be in some type of disorder with a man. Dispatch was unable to get a room number from the caller who kept repeatedly hanging up. 

The report states that officers knocked on multiple doors of the motel trying to find the woman in trouble. While conducting the investigation, a woman wearing a dark-colored hoodie came from the back of the motel and began rapidly walking away from the scene. According to the report, the woman was the one who called police, and as police began speaking with her she dropped her gloves twice without realizing it.

The report states that the woman, who was visibly nervous, identified herself as “April Hart” and gave officers a date of birth and a social security number. While police were attempting to positively identify the woman, she admitted that she had a “bowl” and she turned over a methamphetamine pipe to police.

Later, the woman told police that her true identity was April Dawn Romine and that she had also given police a false social security number. The report states that police placed Romine in custody for Criminal Impersonation and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. When police searched her person, they located .3 grams of methamphetamine that she had concealed in a small bag  in her bra. 

Romine, 40, from a Melissa Lane address in Rising Fawn, Ga., is due to appear in East Ridge Municipal Court on April 18.

 

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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