A 44-year-old Saltville man faces criminal charges after a late-night chase that ended in the woods on Clinch Mountain and sent the man to the hospital.
Teddy Ramey, of Poor Valley Road, was arrested Jan. 29, then released to receive medical treatment after suffering a minor heart attack during the incident, police said.
Ramey was wanted on charges in three counties, police said, including fleeing from an officer attempting to make a traffic stop and fighting to avoid capture.
“We ended up going from Allison’s Gap in the town of Saltville up almost to the top of Route 80 on the Russell County line,” town police Sgt. J.C. Robinson said.
“He abandoned his vehicle and fled on foot for probably half- to three-quarters of a mile. … When I caught up to him, he turned to me and balled up his fist, and I’m half a mile in the woods and I’m completely by myself,” he said.
Robinson said it took pepper spray and a baton to arrest Ramey.
Ramey’s medical condition could not be verified this week.
According to online court records, Ramey is wanted in Grayson County for failure to appear in court, with 13 underlying counts of obtaining money by false pretenses. In Smyth County, he is charged with passing a bad check. In Buchanan County, Ramey is wanted on charges of forgery, uttering and obtaining money by false pretenses, Robinson said.
Ramey also has been convicted of assault and battery and obtaining money by false pretenses.
He now faces additional charges of assault on an officer, felony eluding a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, driving with a suspended license, failure to drive right of the center line, speeding at 55 in a 35-mile-per-hour zone and reckless driving.
“The sad thing is I was just going to stop him and go give him a verbal warning to get him to slow down, and he took off,” Robinson said. “People running, I never understood that. … I even told him, I said, ‘Teddy, I know it’s you,’ but he just kept on running.”
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