Drugs, Cash, Weapons Seized in Raid

The East Ridge Police Department raided a house off Spring Creek Road, Friday morning, and confiscated drugs, money and weapons.

According to a press release, officers found drugs in two different cars after they left the same house in the 6000 block of Wellworth Avenue.

Police obtained a warrant and served the warrant on Friday morning, officials said.

Police discovered “a quantity of meth and marijuana along with firearms and cash,” the press release states.

Charges are pending in the case, 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.