Municipal Court Docket Nov. 5

The following people are scheduled to appear in East Ridge Municipal Court on Monday, Nov. 5. Municipal court is held at City Hall on Tombra Avenue and begins at 5 p.m.

Officials said court is being held on Monday this week as a result of the election being held on Tuesday, the day court normally is in session. In addition, the docket this week is short, as only cases of people who are in police custody will be heard.

Douglas Gass – Criminal Impersonation.

Joseph Grime – Theft of Services, Criminal Simulation.

Charles Hill – Suspended DL.

Anthony Ledbetter – Drug Paraphernalia.

Julie Foster – Possession Meth, Possession Schedule II, Possession Schedule I, Criminal Impersonation, Drug Paraphernalia.

Niki Rutledge – Shoplifting.

Brandon Smith – Possession Schedule II/Resale, Possession Schedule I, Drug Paraphernalia.

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.