Chattanooga Crime Report

07/11/2025

An East Ridge man who was sentenced Thursday to eight months house arrest for committing one count of passport fraud will likely be forced to leave the United States, according to his defense team.

06/11/2025

A former Chattanooga Orange Grove Center employee reached a deal and is expected to plead guilty to one count of s*xual exploitation of a minor in exchange for a recommended 15-year prison sentence, according to a federal plea agreement.

06/11/2025

A group of men who are accused of fatal shootings as part of a revenge plan had their murder cases bound over Wednesday evening to a Hamilton County grand jury.

03/11/2025

An East Ridge man who was on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's most wanted list was arrested Sunday after he was accused of first-degree murder following a shooting that killed one person and paralyzed another, officials said.

An East Ridge man who was on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's most wanted list was arrested Sunday after he was accused of first-degree murder following a shooting that killed one person and paralyzed another, officials said.

31/10/2025

A woman's husband and son have been charged in Sequatchie County with her slaying, after charred human remains were found during a police search in the Lewis Chapel community.

30/10/2025

Two people were killed Wednesday afternoon in a crash on North Moore Road that led to homicide and DUI charges against a 28-year-old man, officials said.

Two people were killed Wednesday afternoon in a crash on North Moore Road that led to homicide and DUI charges against a 28-year-old man, officials said.

29/10/2025

A Chattanooga man who murdered trial witness Bianca Horton nearly a decade ago was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole in Hamilton County Criminal Court.

29/10/2025

A woman was booked into jail Tuesday on a criminal homicide charge in connection with a fatal shooting outside a Motel 6 on Lee Highway, according to officials.

28/10/2025

The now-deceased suspect in Monday's double homicide at a manufacturing plant in Cleveland, Tennessee, was in the process of being terminated from his job, according to investigators.

27/10/2025

A 19-year-old was sentenced to eight years in prison and 22 years on probation by a Catoosa County judge after she pleaded guilty to two counts of vehicular homicide in a 2024 crash that killed two young women.

27/10/2025

Two people are confirmed dead in a shooting at a plastics industry in Cleveland, Tennessee, and a possible suspect and a suspect vehicle have been located at a local residence.

24/10/2025

BREAKING: Former state Rep. Robin Smith, R-Hixson, was sentenced Friday to eight months in federal prison for her role in a corruption conspiracy described as a scheme to to steal from Tennessee and its citizens.

Former state Rep. Robin Smith, R-Hixson, was sentenced Friday to eight months in federal prison for her role in a corruption conspiracy described as a scheme to to steal from Tennessee and its citizens through the General Assembly's taxpayer-funded constituent mail program.