Credit Card 'Skimmers' Found at ER Convenience Store

The East Ridge Police Department is warning residents to pay close attention to their credit card statements as card “skimmers” were recently discovered at a convenience store.

According to a press release, on Monday, the manager of Circle K store at 6708 Ringgold Road contacted police after noticing that two fuel pumps at the store had been tampered with. On closer inspection, employees of the store found skimmers inside the pump cabinet, resembling gray computer ribbon cables. There was no external evidence of tampering, officials said.

The ERPD is investigating the incident, officials said.

Police urge all residents to scrutinize credit card statements for questionable purchases and report them to authorities as soon as possible.

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.