ERPD Investigating Cascades Robbery

The East Ridge Police Department is investigating the robbery of a local motel.

According to a press release, the Cascades Motel on Ringgold Road was robbed Wednesday morning. As the dispatchers were taking the call of the robbery, an officer passing the motel in his patrol car began pursuing the suspect’s vehicle.

The suspect’s car traveled west on Ringgold Road through the Bachman tunnels before striking another car, crashing and overturning. Police said that the suspect took off on foot but left behind a handgun and money in the crashed vehicle.

Officials said that investigators have multiple leads on who is responsible for the robber and an investigation is ongoing.

There were no injuries reported during the incident, officials said.

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.