_ 3918 Ringgold Rd.: Last week police were dispatched to the Sunoco gas station at this address on a suspicious person call. According to a police report, dispatch informed officers that a person was walking around the gas station with an aerosol can and igniting its contents while threatening to set people on fire. The description of the person was a white male wearing no shirt with a “mullet” haircut. According to the report, when police arrived they spoke with Tony Chase, who fit the description. Chase told officers that he and a friend were playing around lighting the aerosol spray on fire.

Chase gave permission for police to search his backpack. According to the report, police found six syringes, a set of digital scales and a crack pipe with white residue in the bag. Police located a cigarette lighter in Chase’s pocket when he was being frisked for weapons. The report states that officers found a butane torch laying on the ground close to where Chase was standing when officers arrived. 

Tony Chase

The report states that police spoke with several witnesses who told them that while they were pumping gasoline into their vehicles when Chase ran between the fuel pumps igniting the aerosol can with the lighter causing flames to shoot more than four feet from the can. One witness said that when Chase was running between the pumps he shouted that he would “burn anyone that wanted some.”

According to the report, Chase later told police that he believed several people were there at the gas station to jump him, which is what prompted him to fire up the aerosol can. 

Chase, 49 and homeless, was charged with Reckless Endangerment and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

_ 3658 Ringgold Rd.: Police were dispatched to the End Zone in the early morning hours of Saturday on a disorder. According to a police report, a call came in at 2:44 a.m. complaining of loud music in the parking lot. When officers arrived the encountered about 40 people in the parking lot playing loud music, talking and laughing. The report states that police began telling people to disperse. Just before 3 a.m., as customers were heading to their cars and leaving, officers heard a gun shot from a vehicle that was pulling out of the lot onto Ringgold Road. Police rushed to the end of the parking lot from which they heard the gunshot and saw three vehicles leaving. As the vehicles reached the intersection of Ringgold Road and Germantown Road, another gunshot was fired from the vehicle. The report states that out of the the three vehicles, it was a white Chevrolet Impala that officers believed occupants were firing a gun. As the vehicles fled, customers were still exiting the bar, the report states. Police stood by while the parking lot was emptied. The report states that police were unable to determine who the complainant was the called originally. The report states that dispatchers’ notes indicated one of the callers was a security employee of the End Zone. All personnel at the End Zone denied calling for police help, the report states.