_ 915 South Seminole Dr.: Police were called to the address on Monday in regard to a person passing counterfeit money. According to a police report, officers met with a woman who said she recently posted a tattoo kit for sale on the internet. She was contacted by a man, via social media, who said that he knew a guy who wanted to buy the kit. At 8 p.m. the woman said she met two men in the parking lot of the address and she told the men she wanted $600 for the kit. The buyer said that was too expensive and that he only had $200. The woman told police that she was hard up for money so she struck a deal for the kit for $200. The report states that when the woman went to a convenience store to put gas in her car she noticed that the bills were bogus.
The woman told police that she only knew one of the men in passing. The man who allegedly gave her the counterfeit bills was identified online by the victim as Matt Brady. Police were unable to locate any identification for a Matt Brady using several law enforcement data base sources, the report states. The bogus money was seized and placed into property and evidence. The report states that warrants for Criminal Simulation may be sought upon further investigation and identification of the suspect.
_ 5221 Stateline Rd.: Police were called to the address last week on a burglary call. According to a police report,s officers spoke with a man who said his mother had left her home a few hours previous to run some errands. The man said he came to his mother’s home to use the restroom and noticed a watch lying in the driveway and the side door was open. The man went inside and found that his mother’s jewelry box on the floor of a back bedroom.
A detective responded to the scene to dust for fingerprints. That effort proved fruitless.
When the homeowner returned to the house, she told officers that she left at about 9:30 a.m. to go pay a bill. She said she locked all the doors but forgot to lock the deadbolt on the rear door. According to the report, officers checked the rear door and found a shoe print on the lower right side of the door near the lock. The report states that the victim was too distraught to itemize what was stolen from her home. The woman was given a property sheet and told to call police when she finished itemizing what was taken from her home.
_ On Thursday, an officer saw Jennifer Suddath driving a 2001 silver Lexus with a faded and out of date temporary registration plate. According to a police report, officers have had several encounters with the driver of this vehicle in recent weeks and during those times a regular tag was on the car. The owner of the vehicle, who was a passenger in the car on this occasion, told police that the car wouldn’t pass emissions and she was using this tag.
The report states that Suddath has an extensive criminal history involving fraudulent checks, identity thefts and drug possession. Police asked for and received consent to search the car and found a digital scale in Suddath’s purse that was under her feet while she had been driving. Suddath is currently on house arrest from Hamilton County and she is also on a furlough out of Cocke County, Tennessee. According to the report, police verified that Suddath had an active warrant out of Newport, Tennessee. She was taken into custody without incident.
