A woman from Middle Tennessee has been arrested by East Ridge police in connection to an incident in late June.
According to an affidavit of complaint, Amy Sherra Rackley, 38, of a Shady Grove address in Summitville, Tenn., was charged with Facilitating or Permitting an Escape. She was jailed under a $5,000 bond and is due to appear in East Ridge Municipal Court on Oct. 18.
The report states that on June 30, police stopped a Cadillac on Ringgold Road for having illegal window tinting. The driver of the vehicle, convicted felon Brian Lee Cleckler, was found to have been in possession of methamphetamine and ammunition. When Officer Lexi Whitenburg began to take him into custody, Cleckler, who had a handcuff on one wrist but not the other, turned and injured the officer. Cleckler then ran into woods adjacent to Interstate 75 and eluded police.
Law enforcement officers caught up with Clerkler on July 29 when he was arrested in Marion County. During the course of the investigation, the report states, Rackley allegedly took Cleckler to Coffee County and found someone to cut the handcuffs off the fugitive’s wrist. Those cuffs, the report states, were recovered by law enforcement officers at a residence of one of Cleckler’s associates in Manchester, Tennessee.
The report states that Rackley, “knowing Mr. Cleckler had one handcuff secured to his wrist, responded to his location after his flight from law enforcement and transported Mr. Cleckler to the Coffee County area where the handcuffed wrist was photographed prior to the handcuff being cut off.”
_ 4150 Ringgold Rd.: Police were called to the Walmart Neighborhood Market on Sunday over a shoplifting incident. According to a police report, an officer spoke with a security officer at the store about a man making off with numerous cases of beer on the previous Friday.
The report states that Walmart security showed an officer video surveillance footage of a black male walking into the store with an empty shopping cart just before 8 p.m. The man went to the beer aisle and began loading case after case of beer and wine into his cart. Three minutes later, the man pushed the cart laden with alcohol out the front door without paying. The report states that the police officer recognized the man from four previous shoplifting calls during the months of August and September.
The report states that the shoplifter made off with two cases of Black Box wine, four cases of Budweiser, a case of Corona Light, two cases of Corona and two cases of Smirnoff Ice. Total value of the loss was placed at $245.89, the report states.
