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You are here: Home / News / Police Briefs for May 21

Police Briefs for May 21

May 21, 2018 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

A man arrested earlier this month on drug charges was taken into custody last week on a bond revocation.

East Ridge officers executed a search warrant in a room at the Motel 6 on St. Thomas Street early on the afternoon of May 16 where Jonathan R. Bech was staying.  A vehicle belonging to Bech was also searched. The search of the room turned up a folded  $50 bill inside a suitcase that contained a small amount of methamphetamine. A syringe was located inside a guitar case on the bed of the room. 

A search of  Bech’s car, a 2005 Infiniti, yielded $1,550 in cash that was stashed under the driver’s seat. 

According to an affidavit of complaint, Bech told officers during an interview that he was planning to drive to Atlanta on that day to buy 10 ounces of methamphetamine for $3,000. Bech told police that he was not a major mover of narcotics but he did sell methamphetamine. The report states the cash and auto were seized by police.

On May 9, Bech, along with two other people, was arrested at a Martha Avenue address after police found 11.7 ounces of meth in a safe inside the house. At that time Bech was charged with Manufacture/Delivery/Sale/or Possession of Methamphetamine, and additional drug charges.

Bech is due to appear in East Ridge Municipal Court on May 22.

_ An Eads Street woman was recently arrested after allegedly stabbing he boyfriend with a pair of scissors.

Johnnea King, 18, was charged with Aggravated Domestic Assault. It is unclear when King will appear in municipal court.

According to an affidavit of complaint, police were called  to King’s apartment on the afternoon of May 15 in reference to a disorder. When officers arrived they spoke with the property manager who said a man was kicking a tenant’s door and refusing to leave. Police spoke with the man who said that he and his girlfriend were in an argument and that he was wanting to get his clothes out of the apartment. 

According to the report, the officer noticed that the man had two marks on his left arm. When asked about the marks, the man told police that his girlfriend stabbed him with scissors. 

Police then spoke with King. who said that she had invited her boyfriend over. The couple began arguing and she had kicked him out of the apartment. King told police that she had opened the door to speak with her boyfriend and they began to struggle with the door. The report states that during the struggle, King said she grabbed a pair of scissors and stabbed her boyfriend in the arm twice. 

King was taken to the Hamilton County Jail for booking. The boyfriend was criminally trespassed from the apartment complex by the property manager, and left the area on foot.

 

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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