Police Briefs March 13

The following incidents are from recent East Ridge Police Department “pass along” reports.

_ 1517 Tombras Ave.: On Tuesday after proceedings were complete at East Ridge Municipal Court and during transport of those individuals in custody, Patrick Faulk, repeatedly kicked the protective cage on the interior of the transport van. The cage was damaged and Mr. Faulk was charged with vandalism.

_ 3500 block Land St.: On Tuesday, a female subject reported that a rape occurred during a party at this location. An investigation of the reported incident is on-going.

_ 3920 Ringgold Rd.: Police responded to the Dollar General Store on Monday in regard to shoplifting. The manager told police that an older male and a female approached the register with about $125 in merchandise. The manager said the woman asked for a pack of cigarettes and as she walked over to fulfill the request, the pair grabbed the merchandise and left the store. The report states that store manager was able to get pictures of the vehicle and tag number which will be furnished to police.

_ 4222 Ringgold Rd.: Officers were called to the Speedway on Monday after four juvenile females were caught shoplifting from the store. Officers made contact with the juvenile offenders at the Pioneer Frontier playground. Representatives from Speedway declined to prosecute the juveniles but asked that they be criminally trespassed.

_ 1015 South Seminole Dr.: On Monday, a man reported the theft of his blue 2013 Hyundai Elantra. He told police that the vehicle was last seen in the parking lot of the Express Mart with the doors unlocked and the engine running.

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.