Edwin HarrisA 26-year-old Chattanooga man has been charged with aggravated burglary after police say he broke into two homes in East Ridge.
East Ridge police were dispatched to a home on Frawley Road around 9 a.m. Monday.
A neighbor noticed a strange white Cadillac sedan leaving the elderly victim’s residence. The neighbor followed the Cadillac, eventually taking a photo of the license plate, according to a news release from the East Ridge Police Department.
The door to the victim’s house had been forced open. The victim was at home asleep during the incident and was unaware that anyone had entered his home, the release stated. Nothing was reported missing and there were no injuries.
The same Cadillac was reported in the area of a residential burglary on Beulah Drive in East Ridge shortly before the incident on Frawley Road, police stated.