ERPD Investigating Attempted Bank Robbery

Officers with the East Ridge Police Department are looking for a woman who tried to rob a bank on Ringgold Road early Thursday afternoon.

Officials said a black woman entered the Sun Trust Bank at 4323 Ringgold Road at 12:05 p.m. The woman passed a note to a teller, apparently got scared and ran out of the bank. The woman left the area on foot, officials said.

The description of the suspect is currently giving police little to work with. Officials said the woman is described as tall with red hair.

Assistant Chief Stan Allen said investigators are currently working to get surveillance video from the bank to disseminate to the public in an effort to bring the suspect into custody.

East Ridge News Online will update this story when more information becomes available.

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.