posted October 5, 2006
Marcelino Robles and Munel Perez said they were accosted by two black males as they were going home from the Golden Gallon on Brainerd Road.
They said one had a small silver handgun and the other a baseball bat. They demanded money.
The victims handed over money and then gave up their wallets. The two robbers then ran and got into a white, four-door Honda and left on McBrien Road.
Mr. Robles had $320 cash taken and Mr. Perez lost $270 cash.
Eiile Simon Vesquez said two black males wearing red, white and black masks approached him on Mulberry Street.
One had a black-colored handgun and pointed it at the victim, saying he would kill him if he did not hand over his money.
Mr. Vesquez said one of the robbers checked his pockets and took his wallet while the other held the gun on him. Then the man with the gun hit him in the side of the head with the weapon.
He said they then ran to a black, four-door car, possibly a Honda, and drove off toward E. Main Street.
Michelle Wright said she was stopped a N. Chamberlain Avenue and Glass Street when three black males approached her vehicle.
She said they started banging on her windows and doors. As she started to drive off, they broke her passenger side mirror, bent the antenna and bent the windshield wiper arm.
Gregory Ralph Jones said he went inside Hamilton Place Mall and came out to find that his laptop computer was missing from the 2006 Chevy belonging to Sprint that he was driving.
He said he wesn't sure if he left the doors unlocked.
Shane Brown of Moody Sawyer Road returned to his apartment and found it had been burglarized.
He is missing two laptop computers.
Tracey Lee Smith said he parked his gold 2003 Chevy 2500 at 1201 Broad St. and later found he was missing his .45-caliber pistol worth $800.
A security guard reported seeing three suspicious black males on the fifth level of the parking garage. He said they sped away in a maroon Ford Explorer.
The registration on the Explorer came back to an address on Vine Street. Police said the suspect vehicle and suspect are similar to suspect descriptions on two other vehicles vandalized at the Chattanooga Choo Choo.
James G. Seagroves said someone broke the window out of his rented vehicle while parked at the Choo Choo.
He said nothing was missing.
A woman said she got a ride with her cousin's friend "Mike" to the College Hill Courts. She said on the way back he pulled into a church parking lot on Cowart Street and demanded that she have sex with him.
She said he became angry when she refused and she pulled a pocket knife to defend herself. She said the man then pulled out a handgun and she ran down Cowart Street to try to get away. The woman said the man tried to run over her.
She said he was driving a white, late model Camry or Lexus.
Officials at the Post Office on S. Hawthorne Street said once again someone has defecated in the parking area.
Postal officials installed a camera, "but the offender moved his location out of what has been his normal area of occurrence."
Officials are to continue monitoring the camera and adjust its line of sight.
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