Two Indicted for Rape

The Hamilton County Grand Jury has indicted two men for the rape and kidnapping of a woman that allegedly happened in East Ridge. According to our friends at NewsChannel9, the indictment against Iver Diaz Cruz was handed down February 3.

According to the offense report, the victim went on a date with the suspect in late December. The suspect took her to the 4A’s Motel on Ringgold Road where he and another man raped her. The suspect then dropped her off down the road from her house the next day.

Diaz Cruz was arrested on Friday. His bond has been set at $300,000. The second suspect has not been arrested and his bond will also be set at $300,000.

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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