Four Juveniles Charged for Ridgeside Crimes

East Ridge Police arrested four juveniles in Ridgeside on Friday.

According to an ERPD press release, officers were in Ridgeside investigating a report of suspicious people walking in the area. While in the area, a call came in of an attempted carjacking.

Within minutes East Ridge officers had three of four suspects in custody. A fourth suspect was arrested later on Friday by Hamilton County Sheriff’s Deputies.

All four juveniles have been charged with Aggravated Assault and Attempted Aggravated Robbery.

The City of Ridgeside contracts for fire and police services from the City of East Ridge.

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.