Reginald Craig
A Chattanooga State student told police he was robbed at knifepoint in the college parking lot as he was getting in his car to leave after classes.
Jonathan White said he was approached by a white male in a gray sweatshirt and wearing a Lookouts ball cap.
He said the man displayed a knife, then hit a button that caused a blade about 4"-5" long to snap out.
The man took his wallet containing $40 and gift cards along with his wrist watch.
The robber headed toward the Health and Fitness Center.
Police came to the scene, but could not locate the man.
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Hermenegildo Izasa said he was robbed outside the Palamino club on Foust Street.
He said a cream-colored car pulled up with a black female driver who asked for a quarter.
He said a white male with black hair then got out of the vehicle and demanded money. When he declined, he said the man began punching him repeatedly in the left side of his face.
The man then reached in his rear pocket and took his wallet. It contained $68 and a credit card.
Then he jumped back in the vehicle and the car sped off. There was also a black male in the vehicle.
He said he followed the car, but lost it at 28th and S. Orchard Knob.
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A thief knocked the windows out of the vehicles of four guests staying at the Holiday Inn Express on MLK Boulevard.
Nothing was taken from a couple of the vehicles. A bag containing a small air compressor was removed from a third, but left beside the car.
However, one guest lost a helicopter bag containing a $2,000 pilot helmet, a $60 knee board, Army equipment worth $115, a $200 pilot jacket, a $150 black jacket, and two pair of Oakley sunglasses worth $400.
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A man was spotted on top of a building at 812 E. 12th St. The witness told police the man was a black male wearing dark clothes. He said he was stealing copper.
The witness saw him lift off the top of the heat and air unit and take out copper piping, then throw it over the side of the building.
When police arrived, the man was still topside. Officers waited as he climbed down, getting over onto a tree.
Reginald Craig, who has a lengthy record for theft, burglary and drugs, was then taken into custody.
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Al Jones said he was awakened at his home on 13th Avenue. He looked out and saw people looking into the tool box on his truck.
He said they left in a maroon Ford Taurus and he followed them and contronted them. He said there were two black males, a white male and a black female. They denied getting into the tool box.
He is missing two pipe wrenches.
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Montrell Montgomery said he took his wallet out to pay at the BI-LO in St. Elmo, then stepped away to get another item. When he returned the black aluminum wallet was gone.
It contained $275, a debit card and various ID.
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Rosetta Taylor put her purse on a table at Humanity Retail Store on E. Main. She looked up to get it and it had vanished.
She is missing $1,500 in cash, a $730 cashier check, a $69.99 Social Security check, a $39 payroll check, her checkbook, ID and debit card.
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Tommie Pope told police that his sister, Mary Pope, has been harassing him while he is at Erlanger Hospital awaiting surgery.
He said she left a message, "Is you dead yet?"
And she said she is the devil and "you just woke up to the devil."