Employees of the Salvation Army Family Store on Ringgold Road reported thefts to police on Sunday.
According to a police report, officers met with the manager at ERPD headquarters about a couple stealing donated items from the side walk in front of the business. The manager told officers that he saw a couple going through items and asked why they were taking things that didn’t belong to them. The woman, the report states, told the manager that she “only took a few things.” The man said nothing.
The manager told the couple to leave and not come back, and that he was going to report the incident to police. The pair left on foot headed East on Ringgold Road.
The only description provided on the couple was that the white male had gray hair and was wearing a black jacket, jeans and carrying a duffel bag. The white female had brown hair, a blue hat and was wearing a gray sweater, jeans and was carrying a white shopping bag.
The report states that the manager requested additional police patrols at the store due to the large amount of donations being left at the business during the holidays.
_ 6725 Ringgold Rd.: Police responded to the East Ridge Flea Market, Sunday, in reference to counterfeit money.
According to a police report, when officers arrived they spoke with a man who runs a booth who said that a woman tried to purchase a $69 Fossil watch with a $100 bill that was marked “for motion picture use only.”
The merchant said the woman put the watch in her purse and when he noticed that the bill was phony he asked for his watch back until she paid him with real cash or he was calling the police. The report states that the woman gave the watch back and ran from the scene. The woman left in a white sedan.
Police seized the counterfeit bill and the merchant provided investigators with a photo of the woman and the car she left in. The merchant said he would prosecute if police found the woman, the report states.
_ 6300 Ringgold Rd.: Officers responded to the Krystal restaurant on Saturday in reference to a pair of Dodge Chargers in the the drive-thru line.
According to a police report, a Krystal employee called police at about 4 a.m. after noticing the driver of a gray Charger had a black semi-automatic pistol in his lap as he came to the window.
As officers pulled up to the restaurant, both vehicles drove off at a high rate of speed heading down Spring Creek Road, the report states. Officers attempted to stop the cars using emergency lights and sirens. Both vehicles failed to stop and continued into Chattanooga toward Brainerd Road.
Officers discontinued the pursuit once they realized the cars were not going to stop.
A Krystal employee told police that the gray Charger was occupied by a black, male driver along with a black female passenger. The blue Charger had at least five black male occupants, the report states.
In a separate report, ERPD received an anonymous complaint of subjects in a vehicle displaying guns in the 1200 block of Sewanee Drive. The vehicle was a blue or black Dodge Charger, and two subjects were hanging out of the car holding guns. Both subjects, the report states, were wearing hoodies and had bandannas over their faces.
Police checked the area but couldn’t find the car, the report states. It is unknown if the incident is related to any of the several shootings in Chattanooga over the last 12 hours, the report states.
