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You are here: Home / News / Police Briefs March 25

Police Briefs March 25

March 25, 2019 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

Police arrested a man on Sunday for burglarizing his father’s house.

According to an affidavit of complaint, police were called to 4331 Greenbriar Road and spoke with the homeowner. The man told police that he was at work and his granddaughter was home alone when his son, David Lee Rogers, came to the house and forced his way inside.

The report states that the victim’s granddaughter was in her room when she heard the door bell go off several times. She told police that she looked outside and didn’t see anyone so she opened the door. At that point she said Rogers forced her out of the way and entered the house. The granddaughter told police that she believed Rogers was high on methamphetamine, as he began scavenging about the house piling items up in the floor that she presumed he intended to take.

The granddaughter told police that she talked Rogers out of the house and believed he had left. The report states the granddaughter then began hearing sounds coming from the back yard. The report states that she looked in the back yard and found Rogers piling more items up to steal. She confronted him again and he fled the scene taking a two-liter drink and a five-gallon can of kerosene.

Rogers was arrested and charged with Aggravated Burglary and Theft of Property.

_ 5301 Ringgold Rd.: Police were dispatched to the Walgreens at this address on Thursday in regard to a suspicious female. According to an affidavit of complaint, an employee at the store told police that a white female wearing pants and a black shirt had been walking around inside the store for more than two hours. The employee told officers that the woman was inside the bathroom talking with herself.

The report states that an officer encountered the woman, later identified as Melissa Roberts, 39, of an Ooltewah address, walking out of the bathroom. Roberts could not tell the officer how long she had been inside the store or what time of day it was. The report states that Roberts was asked for her identification multiple times but couldn’t concentrate long enough to produce one.

The report states that Roberts told police that her father drove her to the store in a green Honda. Police could not find a green Honda in the parking lot. Due to Roberts’s signs of impairment, she was arrested and transported to the jail on a charge of Public Intoxication. According to the report, when Roberts was searched at the jail, corrections officers located three muscle relaxant pills, 10 hydrocodone and 31 Xanax pills inside her right sock.

Roberts was additionally charged with Possession of Schedule II and IV drugs. She is scheduled to appear in East Ridge Municipal Court on April 30.

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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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