Chattanooga Pulse

A weekly roundup of the newsworthy, notable and often head-scratching stories gleaned from police reports from the Chattanooga Police Department, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, the Bradley County Sheriff’s Department and the Dalton Police Department.

• It was a bizarre Sunday afternoon for one Chattanooga police officer.  While running radar, Officer Clayton Holmes’s patrol car was attacked and heavily damaged by…a bulldog. Holmes says he had stopped to work on a report when he felt his car shaking.  He got out to investigate and found a bulldog chewing on his patrol car. The dog chewed two tires and the entire front bumper off the car. The dog also attacked two cars driving by and a second police car that arrived on scene during the incident. O.C. spray and a Taser were used on the dog, but nothing stopped it. McKamey Animal Center personnel responded to the scene and managed to capture the bulldog along with two other dogs.  The owner of the dogs was cited by McKamey.

• Observant neighbors in a Brainerd neighborhood helped Chattanooga Police break up a home burglary ring.  Officers in the Brainerd area responded to a Montview more »