Suspected driver who ‘intentionally rammed’ Kettering cruiser in chase, crash indicted

A 23-year-old Harrison Twp. man is accused of ramming multiple vehicles, including a police cruiser, that started a brief pursuit last month through Kettering.

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Ra’von D. Hampton is due Tuesday for his arraignment in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. He was indicted for failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer, obstructing official business and vandalism, all felony charges, according to a county grand jury report released Thursday.

Kettering police officers were called Nov. 12 to an apartment building in the 1500 block of Brownleigh Road after a car hit a stop sign and a couple cars in the parking lot. A nearby officer got the car stopped at another apartment complex in the 1300 block of Devon Avenue, but the driver, later identified as Hampton, drove away.

Credit: MONTGOMERY COUNTY JAIL

Credit: MONTGOMERY COUNTY JAIL

Lt. Bradley Lambert said at the time that Hampton “backed up and intentionally rammed the police cruiser, and then he did it a second time, intentionally rammed a police cruiser, which was able to get him the room hie needed to get out of that lot.”

During a pursuit that followed, Lambert said Hampton allegedly struck another car in the parking lot and a car parked in the area of Stroop and Shroyer roads.

The chase ended in the Walmart parking lot.

Credit: JIM NOELKER / STAFF

Credit: JIM NOELKER / STAFF

Hampton was arrested after he was bitten by a Kettering K-9 when he tried to run from his car. He was treated for minor injuries and booked into the Montgomery County Jail, where he has remained since his Nov. 12 arrest.

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