Juvenile Arrested on Burglary Charges

Officers responding to a tip on a stolen motorcycle has led to the arrest of a juvenile suspected in multiple burglaries, officials said Monday.

According to a press release by the East Ridge Police Department, there were numerous vehicle burglaries in the area of Spriggs and Lazard Streets reported on Monday. Later on Monday afternoon, police received information on a possible stolen motorcycle located at an address on Dupont St.

While speaking to the juvenile suspect, he confessed to the vehicle burglaries that had occurred Monday and showed officers the stolen property. He was taken into custody on multiple counts of vehicular burglary and thefts of property. The juvenile, a 17 year old white male, will not be identified at this time.

Two adults, April Poole and Chad Deanacelli, were taken into custody on outstanding warrants from Hamilton County, Tennessee and Catoosa County, Georgia, respectively, the report states.

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.