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Police Briefs for May 22

May 22, 2017 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

_ 1301 Greenslake Rd.: Police were dispatched to the Famous Market convenience store, Friday, on a reported aggravated robbery. According to a police report, police spoke with the female victim, who told officers that between 12:30 and 12:45 a white male came into the store. The man was also asking customers for money while they came into the business and as they were leaving. Just before 1 p.m., the victim told officer that the suspect walked up to the beverage counter with a drink. The man had a shirt wrapped around his hand and when the clerk looked down the suspect removed the shirt exposing a gun. According to the report, the suspect said “give me all the money.” The clerk handed over more than $1,000 from the register and the suspect left the building toward the south side. The store owner made video surveillance available to an officer who, according to the report, observed the suspect wearing a t-shirt from Champy’s Chicken and dark-colored shorts. A witness told police that a white Toyota Camry was parked nearby. The car was occupied by a male in the driver’s seat. No registration was seen on the car and it is unknown if the car was involved with the incident, the report states. There are no known suspects at this time.

_ 6674 Ringgold Rd.: On Friday police were dispatched to the Rodeway Inn in reference to a disorder. According to a police report, when officers arrived they spoke to staff members who said that people in Room 361 had “unauthorized guests” who were creating quite a disturbance with a loud argument. While officers made their way to the room, they encountered the folks in the room headed downstairs. Police spoke with the five people who told them they were leaving the motel at the request of management. During the course of identifying the people causing the disturbance, one woman, who said her name was Heather George, told officers she had no ID on her person. Police asked for and received permission to search the woman’s purse and discovered two small baggies of suspected methamphetamine and broken syringes. The female, later identified as Heather George Engloff, 29, of an 18th Street address, was taken into custody. It was later determined that the woman had an outstanding warrant for Violation of Probation. 

The report states that Nicholas McDonald, in whose name the room was rented, had a clear pipe sticking out of his right front pants pocket while he was speaking with police. According to the report, McDonald is on parole for 1st Degree Cruelty to Children and a warrant will be sought at a later date in regards to the drug paraphernalia discovered on his person.

_ 4320 Bennett Rd.: Police were dispatched to the Curtis D. Adams Building on the campus of East Ridge High School late Friday night to investigate an active alarm. According to a police report, when officers arrived they found that a window to the building had been partially melted and was still warm to the touch. Officers cleared the building, found no one inside and no damage to the interior. An arson investigator was called to the scene and a responsible party from Hamilton County Schools secured the facility. 

Upon searching the area around the building, officers located footprints across the practice football field. After searching the wooded area for possible suspects, police found a screwdriver stuck to a tree with melted plastic on the tip which appeared to match the hole in the window of the building. The screwdriver was collected and placed into property and evidence, the report states.

_ 723 Belvoir Ave.: Officers were called to the address last week on a “shots fired” call. According to a police report, an officer spoke with the resident who said he was sitting on his couch when he heard a loud bang and then a bullet went through his front window. The bullet fell to the floor when it was discovered semi-lodged behind a wall painting. The victim said he had no enemies and doesn’t know who may have wanted to shoot up his house. The victim said he bought the house three months ago from a Chattanooga police officer. The bullet was placed in property and evidence.

 

 

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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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