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Online review, dispute led to harassment charges for two wrecker operators

Staff photo by Mason Edwards / Hamilton County Sheriff's Office detective Brian Lockhart filters through Benjamin Wade Elliott Duvall's mail at his house while executing a search warrant on Dec. 2, 2025.
Staff photo by Mason Edwards / Hamilton County Sheriff's Office detective Brian Lockhart filters through Benjamin Wade Elliott Duvall's mail at his house while executing a search warrant on Dec. 2, 2025.


A Louisiana tow truck operator who posted a negative review of two Chattanooga tow truck companies told police she and her fiancé received threatening messages from two men tied to the wrecker companies demanding she remove the post, according to an arrest report.

On Tuesday, Chattanooga police arrested Ronald Christopher Hamilton, 51, for harassment after reviewing messages sent to Elisa Helton.

In a phone call, Hamilton denied the accusations levied against him.

Benjamin Wade Elliott Duvall, 44, the owner of Choo Choo Towing, was arrested the same day on harassment and theft of services charges — and 26 other charges related to an alleged vehicle theft and fraud operation — during a joint search warrant operation by the Police Department and Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office at his car lot on Daisy Dallas Road in Hixson.