Police Make Arrest in Saturday Afternoon Stabbing

The East Ridge Police Department has made an arrest in a Saturday afternoon stabbing on Gleason Circle.

Joel Jarnagan, a Walker County resident, has been charged with two counts of Aggravated Assault. Jarnagan is currently in the Walker County Jail awaiting extradition to East Ridge, officials said.

Police say that Jarnagan is the man who stabbed another man during a disturbance at 3309 Gleason Circle on Saturday afternoon. Officials said then that the incident stemmed from from a car running into a house on the street on Thursday.

According to a press release from the ERPD, warrants were issued on Jarnagan for two counts of Aggravated Assault. East Ridge Police, working with the assistance of the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, were able to locate Jarnagan and take him into custody.

ERPD Chief J.R. Reed said thanked the Walker County Sheriff’s Office for their assistance and all the officers involved in the initial call to bring this incident to a safe and timely resolution.

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.