ERPD Makes Substantial Drug Bust

On Monday, just before 8:30 p.m., two members of the East Ridge Crime Suppression Unit along with members of Charlie Team Patrol conducted a traffic stop which resulted in two arrests on multiple narcotics charges.

One subject was out on bond on the charge of Attempted Murder. This is the second time he has been arrested by East Ridge Police while out on bond.

Seized during the traffic stop was the following: 29.6 grams of powdered Fentanyl; 6.2 grams (786 dosage units) of pressed Fentanyl pills; $1,900 cash; Assorted drug paraphernalia.

These substances have no place in our community and the East Ridge Police Department will continue to actively seek out those who chose to sell narcotics, ERPD officials said.

According to Hamilton County Jail booking reports, Walter Fortson, 20, of a Carriage Park address in Chattanooga, was charged with Resisting Stop, Frisk and Halt, Possession of Fentanyl for Resale, Vandalism, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

Kyla Trenae Nyree Poole, 20, of a Hickory Valley Road address, was booked on previous charges.

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.