_ 915 South Seminole Drive: Early Saturday morning, police were dispatched to the address in reference to a disorder. According to a police report, when officers arrived they made contact with several intoxicated people from two different units in the apartment complex. It was determined that these people had been involved in a bar fight in Chattanooga some time earlier and they had made their way back home to continue the argument.
The report states that police were told that a woman in apartment No. 2 had a black eye. After some period of time police determined the story was true and they asked that the woman step outside so authorities could check on her well-being. The woman, later identified as Scarlet Jackson, came outside and she was holding a small child in her arms. Jackson asked police if she could go back inside and put the child back to bed, a request which officers granted.
The report states that police learned through a warrant check that Jackson had active felony warrants out of Catoosa County, Georgia. At 3:14 a.m. police asked Jackson to step back outside, however her boyfriend said that he couldn’t find her inside the apartment. It was determined that Jackson had crawled over her child’s bed and escaped from the apartment through a side window that police found propped open. The report states that police canvased the area for more than 40 minutes and were unable to locate Jackson.
Just before 4 a.m., Jackson was taken into custody on the front of the apartment complex property. The report states that during the 45 minutes that police were searching for Jackson, her two children, ages two and four years, were left unattended in the apartment. The report notes that the small children were on the bed next to the window where Jackson escaped. Presumably, the children could have fallen and injured themselves. Child Protective Services were called to the scene.
Jackson, 27, was charged with evading arrest by East Ridge authorities. It is unclear what felony charges Jackson is facing in Catoosa County.
_ Sprinvale Rd. at Clemons Rd.: Police were dispatched to the address in the predawn hours of Friday morning regarding a suspicious person call. According to a police report, when an officer arrived he encountered Brian Black and his girlfriend. While the officer ran the people’s names through a criminal history data base, the officer received permission to search the purse of the girlfriend. According to the report, the officer found a small empty bag with a white residue in it. Black told the officer that the bag was his. The officer asked Black if he had anything else on him. The report states that Black said he had a syringe in his pocket. According to the report, the officer also found 1.2 grams of a white crystal substance in Black’s pocket, believed to be methamphetamine.
Black, 44 of a Greenslake Road address, was charged with Possession of Methamphetamine and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
