Christopher Wade Strickland
Police said they have made an arrest in the case of the cough syrup thief at the Kmart on Highway 153.
Store officials said a white male had been to the store at least 10 times recently to open bottles of cough syrup and drink it. They said he had consumed almost $400 worth of cough syrup.
In the most recent incident, they said they caught the man on video gulping down two bottles of cough syrup, then trying to hide the bottles.
A police officer viewed the video and said he could identify the man as someone he had arrested previously - Christopher Wade Strickland. He said the 26-year-old Strickland had a number of prior shoplifting charges and had just gotten out of jail.
The officer soon located Strickland at a nearby Burger King and found he was wearing the same black clothing as in the Kmart video.
Strickland was taken to jail on a charge of theft under $500.
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Store personnel at the Walmart on Gunbarrel Road said a white male and white female were on a shoplifting foray.
The woman was seen putting a Bostitch drill into her purse, and the man was observed placing numerous items in his pants.
The woman was stopped after she tried to leave the store. Sybil Hoover was issued a citation for theft under $500.
The man fled and was believed to have left in a green vehicle. Store officials said they do not know what he had in his pants.
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Police were advised that a man was going at a very slow pace on a Chattanooga rental bicycle on E. 23rd Street. A number of cars were having to dodge him.
An officer got behind the bike, but it would not stop.The officer finally activated his emergency equipment and was able to get the bicycle to halt.
The bicyclist - a man named Higgins - was extremely uncooperative, but was finally restrained. He said he "just got out of jail and got the bicycle from a dude."
Higgins was taken to jail on several charges, including resisting arrest.
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A black male wearing pink shorts is a suspect in the theft of a purse from a vehicle parked at City Church on Lee Highway.
A woman told police when she returned to her car that the purse was gone.
Another woman said she witnessed the whole thing. She said a man in his 60s was also wearing a black hat and a navy Polo shirt with a pink emblem.
She said he was driving a navy glitter blue sedan, possibly a Chevy Cobalt.The car had Michigan plates.
The man in the pink shorts got away though a number of patrol units responded and a citywide BOLO (be on the lookout) was issued.