Man accused of hitting Dayton officer with ATV found guilty

Trammell convicted of felonious assault of a peace officer and firearm charges
Montgomery County Common Pleas Court room. JIM NOELKER/STAFF

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Montgomery County Common Pleas Court room. JIM NOELKER/STAFF

A man was convicted of assaulting a Dayton police officer with an all-terrain vehicle in August 2021.

Deontaye Trammell, 27, is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 15 after Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Susan Solle found him guilty Oct. 26 of felonious assault of a peace officer, failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer, obstructing official business, assault of a peace officer, carrying concealed weapons, improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle and having weapons while under disability, court records show.

Solle acquitted him of one count of felonious assault of a peace officer.

Deontaye Rashawn Trammell

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The charges stemmed from an Aug. 14, 2021 incident where Dayton officers attempted to stop a group of ATV riders on North Gettysburg Avenue for a traffic violation.

Other ATV riders fled, but Trammell reportedly had engine troubles.

Trammell is accused of restarting the ATV and reversing it when police approached him. When police ordered him to get off the ATV, he drove at officer Jamie Luckoski and carried him over a curb before hitting a traffic sign, according to Dayton Municipal Court records.

Luckoski reportedly suffered a large laceration to his leg as a result.

Police then wrestled Trammell from the ATV. Trammell fought with officers until police used a Taser on him and he was bitten by a police dog, according to an affidavit.

In a post-trial brief, the defense wrote Luckoski was “injured by his own actions.”

“He chased down, on foot, a person who at best he believed to have committed a minor misdemeanor traffic offense,” court documents read. “He grabbed the defendant and the ATV. It was by his actions that he suffered puncture wounds on his leg from something on the ATV. He was not run over by the ATV. We should not lower the bar on what constitutes serious offenses, simply because it involves law enforcement.”

The prosecution argued Trammell repeatedly ignored Luckoski’s orders before hitting the officer and reportedly fighting with officers.

“Deontaye Trammell’s choices escalated what should have been a simple traffic stop,” the prosecution wrote. “His series of bad decisions to ignore police orders, to attempt to flee, to strike officer Luckoski, and to fight both officers led to these charges and at trial the state proved said charges beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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