Feds indict Ramos
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
A grand jury Wednesday in the U.S. Northern District Court of Ohio indicted a man who led police on a manhunt and was shot the next day by U.S. marshals.
Acting U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon announced that Luis Cruz Ramos, 30, is indicted on two counts of assaulting federal officers, and single counts of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of crime or violence and failure to register as a sex offender.
Ramos, who had a warrant from Puerto Rico on the latter charge, bolted from Campbell police, who tried to pick him up on the warrant, and led officers on a chase that stopped on Interstate 680 south near a Boardman cemetery. He jumped out of his van and eluded a massive police manhunt until the next day, when marshals spotted him walking in the area of Maywood Drive. They said he pulled a gun when the marshals tried to arrest him during a foot chase and he was shot in the leg.
The federal charges are the result of the actions leading to his arrest.
“This defendant is a threat and does not belong in society,” Rendon said in a news release.
During the chase, Ramos is accused of ramming Campbell police cruisers and firing from his van at least twice at Youngstown police officers, once hitting a cruiser and another time firing at officers trying to put stop sticks down on the freeway. No one was injured in the chase.
A Mahoning County grand jury indicted Ramos on 10 counts of felonious assault on a police officer as well as being a felon in possession of a firearm and fleeing and eluding. He is in the jail on $5 million bond on those charges. He faces a maximum penalty of more than 100 years if convicted of the state charges.