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You are here: Home / Crime News / Police Briefs May 1

Police Briefs May 1

May 1, 2017 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

_ 3725 Fountain Ave.: Officers were called to the address late Sunday night in regard to a domestic assault. According to a police report, when officers arrived they spoke with a woman who said that she and her baby’s father, Anthony Smith Jr., had been arguing all evening long. The victim told police that Smith had asked her for the car keys and when she told him she would give him the keys after she finished feeding their baby, he grabbed her by the jacket. The report states that the victim told officers that he dragged her around by her clothing and punched her in the face. The woman said that Smith then spit on her and kicked in the screen of her television. The report states that the victim’s jacket was torn and she had a cut on her lip. The report states there “was also a large glob of spit in her hair.” When police spoke with Smith, he said that the woman had started the fight, but he had no physical injuries. Smith was arrested and charged with Domestic Assault. 

_ 6912 Martha Ave.: Police were called to the address Friday night on a reported stabbing. According to a police report, while officers were en route, dispatch notified authorities that the victim was headed to Memorial hospital. Prior to arriving at Memorial, officers were notified that the victim could be found in Chattanooga on Arlington Avenue. Police went to the location and spoke with the male victim who told them that he had gone to Martha Avenue to retrieve his clothes from his ex-girlfriend’s house. When he arrived he saw that his clothes had been tossed into the front yard and bleach had been poured over them. The man told police that his ex-girlfriend, Kiara Green, had also thrown a bag with his clothes into the woods. The report states that the victim told police that when he went to get his bag from the woods, Green emerged from the house with a kitchen knife and attacked him. The report states that officers saw a laceration on the victim’s right arm. There was also two lacerations to both of his hands. The man was transported to Erlanger for medical attention. When police spoke with Green, she said that she did follow the man into the woods and began waving the knife. She told officers that she did not realize that she cut the victim. Green was arrested and charged with Aggravated Domestic Assault before being taken to the Hamilton County Jail.

_ 6674 Ringgold Rd.: Early Sunday morning, an East Ridge detective noticed a vehicle in the parking lot of the Roadway Inn with the driver’s side door open. When he approached the vehicle, the officer made contact with the driver and immediately noticed a strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle. According to a police report, the man, identified as Nolan Dollar, told the officer that he was just smoking a cigarette. When the officer ran the man for warrants, it was discovered he was wanted out of East Ridge for Domestic Assault and placed into custody. According to the report, when the officer searched the man’s car incident to arrest, he discovered a baggie containing 5.8 grams of marijuana along with some rolling papers. Dollar, 29, of a Park City Road address in Rossville, was charged with Possession of Schedule VI, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Domestic Assault. 

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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