Chattanooga Crime Report

11/09/2025

An Athens, Tennessee, man is behind bars on an attempted first-degree murder charge after allegedly attacking his uncle with a baseball bat.

11/09/2025

McMinn County has denied malfeasance in a $25 million wrongful death suit filed in U.S. District Court by the son of a Hixson man who lost his life at the hands of another inmate at the county jail in 2018.

11/09/2025

A Chattooga County jury convicted a man on 10 charges related to a 2017 head-on crash on Taylor's Ridge that killed a woman and seriously injured her family members.

11/09/2025

Two Athens, Tennessee, residents were charged after city police found numerous dogs running loose at a home on West Bank Street.

Two Athens, Tennessee, residents were charged after city police found numerous dogs running loose at a home on West Bank Street. Some of the dogs acted aggressively toward officers while the homeowner was unable to control them.

09/09/2025

A Soddy-Daisy man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for ra**ng an autistic and nonverbal adult relative earlier this year.

A Soddy-Daisy man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for ra**ng an autistic and nonverbal adult relative earlier this year.

06/09/2025

A Hixson man was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing a relative.

06/09/2025

A man held at the Hamilton County Jail has died after an assault by another inmate using a makeshift weapon, authorities said.

05/09/2025

Hamilton County Sheriff Austin Garrett announced Thursday he will seek reelection next year.

04/09/2025

Deputies arrested an Ooltewah man in connection with one of the region's largest cases of critical infrastructure vandalism and theft of electric grid components, officials said.

04/09/2025

Tennessee transfers people from local jails into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at a higher rate than almost every other state in the country.

Tennessee transfers people from local jails into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at a higher rate than almost every other state in the country. Only Texas has a higher transfer rate, according to a nonpartisan report.

04/09/2025

The wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of an inmate who died in the Hamilton County Jail was dismissed and permanently closed, officials said.

03/09/2025

Chattanooga police arrested a man who allegedly called Shady's Corner, a bar on Cemetery Avenue, and told the bartender who answered that the neighboring Islamic Center was going to blow up the location.