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You are here: Home / Crime News / Police Briefs for Sept. 27

Police Briefs for Sept. 27

September 27, 2016 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

full_579_ 6400 Block of Ringgold Rd.: On Thursday afternoon police saw a brown Honda Accord traveling down the highway and the officer noticed that the woman driving was Brandy Browning, a woman with an outstanding warrant from East Ridge City Court for failure to appear on traffic violations. According to a police report, the officer stopped the vehicle and Browning was taken into custody without incident. When the officer did an inventory of the woman’s purse, the officer located a silver pipe with an unknown residue, one clear pipe commonly used for smoking methamphetamine and an uncapped syringe. The officer asked Browning if she had anything concealed on her person and Browning retrieved a small bag from her bra, the report states. The bag was found to contain about .6 grams of suspected methamphetamine. Browning was additionally charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Felony Possession of Methamphetamine.

_ 361 Camp Jordan Rd.: Police were dispatched to the address on Thursday on a burglary complaint. According to a police report, when officers arrived they spoke with the female victim who said that she left her duplex just before 7 a.m. and when she returned at 9 p.m. she discovered her back door standing open. The woman told officers that she discovered a hole in the upstairs bedroom wall that led into the other side of the duplex. The woman told police that thieves had made off with a 32 -inch television, a 42-inch television and her children’s Xbox gaming system. The report states that they went into the other side of the duplex and clearly saw evidence of someone punching a hole through the wall of that unit. Total value of the theft is more than $1,000. The case has been assigned to a detective for investigation.

_ 23 Mission Ridge Oval: Police were dispatched to the address last week on a burglary. According to a police report, officers spoke with the victim who said that someone had broken into her storage shed and stolen a tool box and numerous hand tools. During the investigation police discovered that a motion detection light had been removed from the property. The report states that police discovered fresh fingerprints on items that the victim said had been moved around inside the storage building. An investigator processed the scene for fingerprint evidence, the report states. The victim provided officers with a list of stolen items with an estimated value of more than $1,000.

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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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