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Two Arrested in Drug Bust

January 9, 2020 By Dick Cook Leave a Comment

East Ridge police have charged two people with a litany of drug charges after executing a search warrant on Tuesday at a house on Burns Avenue.

Allison Paige McKenzie, 33, of 1547 Burns Ave. and Scott Parker Daugherty, 42, of a St. Elmo Avenue address in Chattanooga are facing multiple drug charges, including possessing heroin, psilocybin mushrooms and marijuana for resale.

The pair were jailed on $117,500 bond through East Ridge, but court officials said both McKenzie and Daugherty were on probation for previous convictions and will be held without bond. They are due to appear in East Ridge Municipal Court on January 21.

According to an affidavit of complaint, officers executed a search warrant at 1547 Burns Ave. at 8 a.m. on Tuesday. A search of the house turned up eight grams of heroin, 16 grams of methamphetamine, 36 grams of suspected psilosybin mushrooms, 39 grams of pot, a quantity of pills, five glass pipes, two large digital scales, 150 syringes, two handguns and $447 in cash.

According to the affidavit, McKenzie waved her Miranda rights and told investigators that she and Daugherty were selling between three and 18 ounces of methamphetamine a week, and about an ounce of heroin a month.

The affidavit states that on Monday officer combed through trash from the residence. This effort turned up baggies with corners ripped off and several syringes. The affidavit claims the ripped baggies were evidence of repacking of bulk narcotics for resale.

“Based on the amount of illicit drugs, the presence of packing material, evidence found during the examination of the trash, and statements made during an interview, it’s believed Scott Daugherty and Allison Sutton (McKenzie) did possess controlled substances with the intent to distribute,” the affidavit states.

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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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