A woman on E. 18th Street told an officer she noticed that an electrical cord was extending from her house to inside a neighbor's house. Police went to the neighbor's and observed the front door to be open and unsecured. The woman said that address is abandoned and no one is supposed to live there. Police cleared the residence and observed the electrical cord on the ground in front of the front door. No one was inside the residence at the time police entered. An officer noted that nothing was plugged into the cord at the time. The woman said she has lived at her residence for two months and her first electric bill was around $54 and her bill last month was $64. She was unsure if the inflation of her bill is due to individuals using her power in the abandoned house, or not. She said around three weeks ago she did realize that a light was on in one of the bedrooms of the abandoned house.
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Officers responded to the Mapco at 200 Browns Ferry Road. Store officials said Tammy Franks and her boyfriend, Maurice Moore, had attempted to pass two counterfeit $20 bills as payment while paying for beer and gas. The fake money was held by the manager until the police arrived. The couple said they had just left the Roadway Inn at 6674 Ringgold Road in East Ridge and had received that money from the hotel as re-payment for their deposit. The couple said they were going back to the hotel and call the East Ridge Police Department "to report the suspicious activity of them handing out counterfeit money."
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Police were dispatched to an unconscious party at the 3400 block of Amnicola Highway. Police observed the driver was asleep in his vehicle. HCEMS Medic 12 and CFD Engine 10 responded to the scene and evaluated the man. He refused medical treatment and stated that he was stopped at the train crossing waiting on a train and he leaned back and fell asleep. The man said he just worked a double shift and was extremely tired. Police were able to determine that the man was not under the influence of any substances based upon observation.
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Officers attempted to initiate a traffic stop with several sport bikes driving west on Manufacturers Road. The vehicles proceeded to take the southbound exit for Highway 27 and continued to fail to yield to an officer's emergency lights. The officer said, "These sport bikes have been very frustrating for police recently as they drive recklessly through not only hectic business sector traffic but also through residential parts of town as well. The descriptions for the bikes are posted to this report and dash cam footage has been made. These bikes, their riders and helmets, match previous encounters and upon knowledge as to who the riders are during these instances; warrants will be issued."
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A woman said her wallet had been stolen out of her vehicle at her home on Shallowford Road. She said she arrived home at 8:30 p.m. and the next morning received a text on her phone from her debit card asking if she had just made a purchase. She replied no and that was when she realized her wallet had been stolen.. She had left it in her vehicle with the doors unlocked. She also checked her account online and found that her card had already been used at an unknown Walmmart location twice in the amounts of $304.81 and $38.93. An officer later responded to 2245 Hickory Valley Road, the Speedway gas station, to view video of the suspect using the woman's stolen cards. He obtained pictures of three suspects and their vehicle.
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Police interviewed a man at the Signal Mountain Road Walmart parking lot. He said he saw his vehicle within 20 minutes of police arrival between the parking lot rows #5-7 of Walmart and now his vehicle was gone. At the time, police had not received any tow notifications for his vehicle and there was no camera footage showing that someone had stolen his vehicle. Later, the man walked to the lawn and garden side of Walmart and found his car. It was his vehicle alright, and nothing was missing from it.
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A woman on Sheridan Avenue said someone stole her black 1999 Chevy Blazer. She said the vehicle was parked along the roadway in front of her house. She was getting ready to leave so her Blazer was left unlocked and running. The woman did not see anyone take the vehicle, but as she was walking inside she said she noticed several young black males near her vehicle.
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A woman said someone stole her 1997 Honda Accord that had been parked in front of the Neighborhood Walmart on East Brainerd Road. It had been on the pharmacy side. She said she was inside the store for around 20 minutes. When she came out her car was gone. Police looked at video but it did not appear her car was parked in view of a camera. She said there are two males who have keys to the vehicle, making them possible suspects.
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Dispatch received a call from a man saying he was at Tracks End on Amnicola Highway, but the call taker could not understand anything else. The dispatcher said the man sounded heavily intoxicated and that someone else completed the call to dispatch for him. Police arrived and met with Johnny Scruggs, who stated to everyone in the restaurant, "There's my ride!" Police walked Scruggs outside and asked why he called police. He said the County Police had told him to call the non-emergency number anytime he needed a ride home. The city officer "explained to Scruggs that I would take him home this evening, but this would be his last ride from Police due to him tying up officers on non-police-related activities." The officer transported Scruggs to his home on Chamberlain Avenue.