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You are here: Home / Crime News / Police Briefs for Dec. 21

Police Briefs for Dec. 21

December 21, 2015 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

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_ Police have arrested a Chattanooga man for an October theft on Oakdale Avenue. According to an affidavit of complaint, Kameron Gholar, 28, of a Bowman Lane address was charged with Theft over $1,000. He is due to appear in East Ridge Municipal Court on Dec. 29.

The affidavit states that Gholar entered the house and stole a 52-inch television valued at $1,800, a video game console and two pair of shoes worth more than $500. A witness told officers that she saw Gholar back his vehicle into the driveway of the home on Oct. 14. The witness also told officers that her grandson told her that he saw the accused remove the television during that time.

_ Police arrested a Knoxville man Friday after observing him drive “erratically”  and charged him with Theft over $10,000. According to an affidavit of complaint, an officer saw a car driving eratically on the lot of the Comfort Inn on Ringgold Road. When police ran the tag on the vehicle, they discovered it reported stolen out of Sevier County. The report states that when officers pulled the car over, it was being driven by Leon S. Jones Jr. of a Woodpark Lane address in Knoxville. The report states that a juvenile female passenger in the vehicle was listed missing out of Knox County. The juvenile was taken to the Juvenile Detention Center and Jones was taken into custody, charged with Theft over $10,000. He is due to appear in City Court on Jan. 5, 2016.

 

Filed Under: Crime News, FEATURED POSTS, News

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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