Traffic Stop Leads to Drug Bust

Crime Suppression Investigators conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle after observing the license plate on the vehicle to be altered.

Following the encounter a male subject, identified at was taken into custody on an outstanding out of Catoosa County warrant. A female subject, identified as Natasha Dunn, 37, of a 33rd Street address, was also taken into custody after being found to be in possession of approximately 190.9 grams of meth. The male subject, identified as Michael Kirby, 44, of Trenton, Ga., was further charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and tampering with evidence after attempting to discard paraphernalia in the back of a patrol vehicle.

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.