Man Arrested After Late-Night Chase
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Published: February 5, 2009
Updated: February 5, 2009
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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What’s even funnier is that Bill is posting a comment unrelated to the story about people making comments unrelated to the story! haha
Bill, I think that is the pot calling the kettle black from past experiences with your posts. But, I think it is interesting to see peoples opinions and then state my own based on theirs. And they are more than welcome to post in regards to my opinion. I have had my views and opinions changed by people that have disagreed with me and backed it up. If someone doesn’t want their opinion or views to matter to anyone else then why post them. That is the purpose isn’t it?
As always someone makes a comment about a story and then everyone then takes on this persons for all future comments.
Your chance for comments from the paper are for the story they wrote not to comment on other peoples comment.
Stick to story please not those who make comments>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.Make your comment and the go.
You have some good points DC but you should really clarify what type of crimes you are talking about. A year in a bootcamp for the first time someone commits any crime? That is too broad of a spectrum, every crime does not deserve a year of time and you say an additional year of doing community service work. During that year they are working for the people, where do they live? How do they live? And you speak of diploma being a requirement..what about those that do not have the mentality to obtain a diploma? I’m not saying every criminal has a low i.q. but a large portion of them have learning disabilities and that leads to criminal behavior out of frustration and dropping out of school. Also, just because a criminal learns a trade does not mean they will work in that trade, once you are a criminal you are limited in employment. And trust me, the employers that hire ex-cons aren’t exactly paying high salaries, barely above minimum wage in most cases. I work in the employment industry and I work with ex-cons alot. No matter the skill level these guys and gals have they are having to take very low paying jobs and are still living off of government assistance and some feeling compelled to return to criminal behavior in order to live.
Good for Sgt. Robinson. He didn’t know that the man wasn’t armed and ready to blow his brains out, yet he chased and captured him on top of an isolated mountain in the cold and dark where even a misstep could place one in danger.
Now instead of giving the criminal five days, and suspending two of them, there ought to be a real way to straighten him out. I can wish that some wise lawmaker somewhere, preferably in our part of Virginia, would make possible a two year boot camp for first time lawbreakers…
The first year to be spent in the tender loving care of a few good ex-marine company commanders. This would supply them the character, discipline, and attention that they may not have gotten at home. And I’ll bet that by the time the first year was over, the “career” criminals would have been identified.
The second year would be spent in serious work for the community, and I don’t mean picking up trash beside the roads. I mean sweat-popping, muscle-building, mind-numbing, this-can-make-any-job-look-good labor. Believe it or not, mastering hard work and doing something for society builds character, too.
And then, as a part of probation, make a high school diploma and training for a viable trade absolutely mandatory. This makes sure there’s no whining about “I couldn’t find a job.“ There would be no reason to deal dope or live off a girlfriend’s foodstamps and public housing. Or to steal and write bad checks for that matter.
And while the first batch of “reformists” were starting the bootcamp, the rest of us fine citizens could start doing something about the nutty-butt free trade agreements with which we’ve let ourselves become saddled. That way, there’ll be enough jobs to answer the promise…
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