Burglary Suspect Apprehended By Bradley County Sheriff s Office K-9 Unit Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Bradley County Sheriff s Office deputies were dispatched at approximately 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, to a barn on Cohulla Road SE in reference to a burglary in progress.
While en route, a deputy made contact with the suspect’s vehicle, at which time the vehicle veered off down a driveway, drove through a fence and crashed into a tree. Two men exited the vehicle and proceeded to run. One deputy deployed his K-9 partner, who successfully apprehended the driver.
The driver was identified as Curtis Collier and was transported to Erlanger Hospital by LifeForce due to injuries sustained from K-9 apprehension. The suspect’s vehicle, which held the stolen property in plain sight, has been seized and transported to the BradleyCounty Justice Center for a forensics investigation.
Longtime Unum Employee Who Embezzled Almost $54,000 Gets Probation After Paying The Money Back Friday, April 23, 2021
A longtime Unum employee who was arrested by federal authorities for embezzling almost $54,000 has gotten three years probation after paying the money back.
Federal Judge Curtis Collier directed that Sandra Jean Weaver also serve 160 hours of community service.
She earlier pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud.
She had been employed by Unum in Chattanooga since January of 1986 and worked as an enrollment specialist II.
The criminal information says, She was a customer service representative who handled policy administration. Her duties included updating policies, applying customer payments, and processing loans. She had the authority to transfer funds from company suspense accounts into insurance policies. She entered data in two older, legacy computer systems called CJ.A. and Life 70, systems in which she was considered an expert bec
Dequan Fuqua Gets 27-Month Federal Prison Term For Having Gun After Indictment For Attempted Murder Saturday, April 10, 2021
Dequan Fuqua
A Chattanooga man who was one of three men charged in connection with a July 4, 2016, shooting that left 31-year-old Natasha Jones with critical injuries has been sentenced to serve 27 months in federal prison on a gun charge.
Dequan Kentrel Fuqua, 23, appeared before Judge Curtis Collier.
Fuqua had been arrested by federal agents on a charge of possessing a firearm while under indictment for a felony.
A federal agent said the Drug Enforcement Administration and Chattanooga Police executed a search warrant at 4683 Fall Creek Road last July 9.
By Wyatt Goolsby
Apr 9, 2021
President Biden’s head of Homeland Security is reportedly considering resuming construction of the border wall.
One of President Biden’s first acts in office in January was to halt all construction of Trump s border wall. Now, according to a report from The Washington Times, he s own head of Homeland Security is thinking about restarting it. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visited the southern border this week, where thousands of illegal immigrants have been walking into the country.
“This is not people sneaking past the border patrol, or at night digging under the wall,” Curtis Collier, the president of U.S. Border Watch, said. “Some of the best pictures I’ve seen from border simply are from just vast numbers of people walking in the same direction.”
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