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You are here: Home / Crime News / Arrest Reports / ERPD Arrests April 16-18

ERPD Arrests April 16-18

April 19, 2026 By Dick Cook Leave a Comment

According to booking reports from the Hamilton County Jail, the following people were arrested by the East Ridge Police Department from April 16-18. An arrest does not mean that a person has been convicted of a crime. All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Thursday, April 16

HUGHES, KADEN JACOB
140 PEBBLESTONE DR RINGGOLD, 30736
Age at Arrest: 20 years old
Arresting Agency: East Ridge
Charges: TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE
POSS OF SCH VI
EVADING
POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA

Friday, April 17

HELTON, SAMUEL BEN
EAST RIDGE, 37412
Age at Arrest: 45 years old
Arresting Agency: East Ridge
Charges: PUBLIC INTOXICATION

KOWALESKI, ZANE MICHAEL
1714 STANFIELD ST CHATTANOOGA, 37406
Age at Arrest: 30 years old
Arresting Agency: East Ridge
Charges: POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA

PATEL, KISHAN B
5810 CANEY RIDGE CIRCLE OOLTEWAH, 37363
Age at Arrest: 39 years old
Arresting Agency: East Ridge
Charges: STALKING
ELECTRONIC TRACKING OF MOTOR VEHICLE
ELECTRONIC TRAKING OF MOTOR VEHICLE

ZELNICK, PATRICK MICHAEL
604 BELLVISTA AVE CHATTANOOGA, 37412
Age at Arrest: 34 years old
Arresting Agency: East Ridge
Charges: POSSESSION OF SCH II (METH) WITH INTENT
POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA

Saturday, April 18

DAVENPORT, WAYLENE JAZARION
1820 DIXSON STREET CHATTANOOGA, 37421
Age at Arrest: 21 years old
Arresting Agency: East Ridge
Charges: THEFT OF PROPERTY

GREEN, DAKOTA MICHAEL
1444 WILSON ROAD ROSSVILLE, 30741
Age at Arrest: 26 years old
Arresting Agency: East Ridge
Charges: FAILURE TO APPEAR

Filed Under: Arrest Reports, 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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