Police Blotter: Con Man Directs Money Card Scam From Speedway Parking Lot; Joyrider Goes On Downtown Spin And Across Bridge On Forklift

  • Saturday, October 22, 2016
At the Speedway on Hickory Valley Road a clerk was scammed out of $3,371.71 in ITune money cards.

A caller told the cashier he was with "corporate" and needed to pull ITune cards in amounts of $50 and $100 to move them to another store.

He said she needed to ring up the cards to validate them and give him the numbers.

The man said he later would cancel out the cards from her store.

The clerk said the caller may have been in the store parking lot since from time to time he told her to go ahead and wait on a customer.

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A woman on N. Hickory Street said she saw a dark-skinned man wearing a green baseball cap and a large black coat look into her bedroom window at 1:10 a.m.

She said she had seen him before pushing a dolly with stuff on it down the road.

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Isaac Moore said he left his vehicle at 3900 Brainerd Road to advertise that it was for sale.

Someone took it without bothering to pay.

It is worth about $2,000 and has front-end damage.

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The manager of the Mapco on Rossville Boulevard said a thief made off with a large amount of Skittles worth $71.64.

The candy thief was described as a black male wearing a white hat with an A on it, a Georgia sweater and faded blue jeans.

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Ashley Boyd reported going out to warm up her car at a parking lot on S. Lyerly.

When she returned the car was gone.

It has front right headlight damage and a busted window.

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A man said his car was parked on Perimeter Drive when someone was able to get inside.

The thief took $900 in cash he had hidden under the seat.

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Police got calls of a man sauntering along Highway 153 taking selfies of himself as cars and trucks whizzed by.

An officer was able to get Eric David Smith Jr. out of harm's way and to a nearby Cash America.

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Fredrick Cox said he left a car parked at the Walmart parking lot with an acquaintance named Michael inside.

Michael (no last name known) was gone with the car when he returned to where it had been located.

Michael has short brown hair and is within the range of 5'6" to 5'11". He weighs 220 pounds.

The car belongs to the victim's mother.

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At DSW Shoes at Hamilton Place, a dark-skinned black female came in wearing a medical boot on one foot and a shoe on the other.

She took the shoe off and replaced it with a better one from the store. Then she hobbled out without paying.

The woman, who had multi-colored dark hair and was wearing a tank top, left in a green 2012 GMC Sierra.

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Thomas S. Bowen said he left a company truck at a gas pump on Jenkins Road unlocked and with the key in the ignition.

A black male was seen driving off in the truck at a high rate of speed.

He was described as 5'7" with a slim build and bald.

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A worksite on Winding Lane has been hit for the second time by the same set of thieves.

Video showed a white male driver and two female passengers involved.

In the latest incident, they took 13 sheets of strand board, a box of metal brackets, 11 2x8s, 20 1x3s and a roll of plastic.

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Police began getting calls about a fork life being driven in the streets of downtown Chattanooga near the Riverfront.

It was seen being driven across the Market Street Bridge after it was commandeered from a work site on Riverfront Parkway.

The runaway fork lift was finally found abandoned at Renaissance Park.

An official of Strauss Construction said it appeared to be none the worse for wear.


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