_ 6510 Ringgold Rd.: On Sunday, police were called to the 4A’s Inn in regard to a domestic assault. According to a police report, when officers arrived they found a couple in room 180. Police had received several calls earlier in the day about a couple arguing constantly. Both had been drinking and the male had a bloody lip and what seemed to be slight bruising around his eyes. During the initial interview the man said that his partner, Elizabeth Renee Owens, of Florence, Ala., had done the damage to his face. Owens told police that she and the man had been arguing and another man known as “Tank,” had grabbed her by the hair and assaulted her.
The report states that officers located “Tank” and interviewed him in his motel room. He told officers that he heard the couple arguing all the way in the front of the hotel complex. Hotel management had also heard the conflict throughout the evening. “Tank” said he had come to the couple’s room and saw Owens push the man down several times inside the room, breaking some of the furniture. The physical confrontation continued until “Tank” saw Owns punch the man in the face. At that point, “Tank” said he stepped in and grabbed Owens by the hair and shoulders in an attempt to get her off the male subject. Owens then called 911 to report the assault committed upon her by “Tank.” The report states that based on the evidence and statements by those involved, Owens was taken into custody.
She was charged with Domestic Assault and is due to appear in East Ridge Municipal Court on July 26.
_ 1156 South Seminole Dr.: Police were called to the address on Monday afternoon on a reported burglary. According to a police report, a female resident left the house at 8 a.m. and when her husband returned home at 5:30 p.m. he discovered that a sliding door to the patio had been forced open and was left ajar. The man went inside the house to see if it had been burglarized then called police. The report states that when officers arrived they went inside with the couple and found that the every room in the house had been ransacked. Officers located a single blue latex glove laying in the driveway of the home and took it as evidence.
The report states that police canvased the neighborhood looking for potential witnesses to the break-in. One witness said that a full-sized, dark-colored SUV, possibly a Chevy Tahoe, had parked in the driveway next door to the residence at about 9 a.m. for 45 minutes. The resident who lived next door told police that she had left her house at about the same time in the morning that her neighbor did. The report states that the neighbor told police that nobody should have been parked in her driveway at the time the other witness indicated.
Police searched for evidence in the ransacked home, the report states. The residents were given a sheet to list any items that were stolen.
_ 1105 John Ross Rd.: Police were called to the address on Monday in reference to a burglary. According to a police report, police spoke with the victim, who had entered through a back door which had been kicked in. When an officer entered the residents he noted that the door jam had been splintered. The report states that each room in the house had been “ransacked” and a 40-inch Samsung flat screen television was taken from the living room. Several other items were reported stolen, the report states.
