Municipal Court Docket for May 26

The following people are scheduled to appear in East Ridge Municipal Court on Tuesday, May 26. Municipal Court is held at City Hall on Tombras Avenue.

Daniel Dodson – Theft under $1,000.

Roy Galloway – Possession Firearm while committing a Felony, Unlawful Possession of Firearm, Possession Schedule IV, Assault on Police, Evading Arrest, Theft under $1,000, Altering Serial Number.

Austin Hardin – Possession Meth/PTR.

Christopher Hilt – Possession Marijuana/Resale, Possession Meth/Resale, Revoked DL, Red Light Violation, Fail to Maintain Lane, Open Container.

Joshua Merritt – Burglary, Possession Meth, Drug Paraphernalia.

Noah O’Harra – Theft, Burglary.

Charles Sledge – Possession Meth, Public Intoxication, Drug Paraphernalia.

Timothy Smith – Aggravated Domestic, Interference with 911.

Dustin Sneed – Aggravated Arson, Aggravated Burglary, Aggravated Cruelty to Animals, Arson, Vandalism.

Christopher Taylor – Drug Paraphernalia/Alias Capias.

Courtney Foster – Domestic/PTR.

Kimberly Merritt – Theft over $10,000.

Michelle Penter – Assault on Police, Resisting Arrest, Public Intoxication.

Emily Sells – Possession Controlled Substance/PTR.

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.