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09-25-2006, 05:10 PM
Man uses golf club, ax to vent wrath on police cruiser
MARYVILLE - A 24-year-old Knoxville man faces a court date Wednesday in connection with an incident in which he reportedly heavily damaged a Blount County Sheriff's Office cruiser with an ax and a golf club.
Dustin Kyle Kramer also is accused of threatening to kill his mother and a Blount County Sheriff's Office deputy he said was controlling him with a remote. Kramer is being held in the Blount County Detention Facility on a $45,000 bond.
Deputies were called to an address on Hugh Rule Drive near Rockford about 1:30 p.m. Saturday on a report of vandalism in progress.
The call came from Kramer's mother, Kimberly Kramer-Sumer, who reported her son was "in a rage" and taking it out on a BCSO cruiser parked at the home of a neighbor, Sgt. Todd Jackson.
The woman told deputies she tried to stop Kramer from damaging the cruiser, but he threatened to kill her.
She said he first attacked the cruiser with a golf club, and when that broke, he went to a garage, came back with an ax and resumed his rampage.
It is unclear the source of Kramer's animosity toward Jackson, but he reportedly told officers after his arrest that Jackson was controlling him with a remote device and that he was a "Todd Jackson destroyer."
Kramer knocked out all side windows and the rear window of Jackson's cruiser and smashed the windshield. He also dented the roof, bent window frames and broke the emergency light bar.
Jackson was not home at the time of the attack.
Kramer also damaged a Dodge pickup truck the officer owns that also was parked at his home.
Damage to both vehicles totals about $13,700, reports state.
Before deputies arrived at Kramer's mother's home on the vandalism report, Kramer fled in his black Dodge Neon, reports say. The officers at the scene issued an alert for other officers to be on the lookout for the car, and shortly another deputy spotted it headed back toward the suspect's mother's home.
The driver, however, refused to stop when the deputy tried to pull him over.
The officer radioed ahead for officers at the scene to be watchful for the car.
When the Neon approached the house, officers on the scene had their weapons drawn, and Kramer stopped and surrendered.
According to reports, Kramer was "combative and belligerent" when arrested and made death threats against Jackson while he was en route to the Blount County Justice Center.
Kramer's mother told officers her son suffers from a form of mental illness and has stopped taking his medication.
Among items reported damaged in the cruiser were the light bar costing $2,500, the in-car camera, $4,000 and the computer, $2,000.
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_5003700,00.html
MARYVILLE - A 24-year-old Knoxville man faces a court date Wednesday in connection with an incident in which he reportedly heavily damaged a Blount County Sheriff's Office cruiser with an ax and a golf club.
Dustin Kyle Kramer also is accused of threatening to kill his mother and a Blount County Sheriff's Office deputy he said was controlling him with a remote. Kramer is being held in the Blount County Detention Facility on a $45,000 bond.
Deputies were called to an address on Hugh Rule Drive near Rockford about 1:30 p.m. Saturday on a report of vandalism in progress.
The call came from Kramer's mother, Kimberly Kramer-Sumer, who reported her son was "in a rage" and taking it out on a BCSO cruiser parked at the home of a neighbor, Sgt. Todd Jackson.
The woman told deputies she tried to stop Kramer from damaging the cruiser, but he threatened to kill her.
She said he first attacked the cruiser with a golf club, and when that broke, he went to a garage, came back with an ax and resumed his rampage.
It is unclear the source of Kramer's animosity toward Jackson, but he reportedly told officers after his arrest that Jackson was controlling him with a remote device and that he was a "Todd Jackson destroyer."
Kramer knocked out all side windows and the rear window of Jackson's cruiser and smashed the windshield. He also dented the roof, bent window frames and broke the emergency light bar.
Jackson was not home at the time of the attack.
Kramer also damaged a Dodge pickup truck the officer owns that also was parked at his home.
Damage to both vehicles totals about $13,700, reports state.
Before deputies arrived at Kramer's mother's home on the vandalism report, Kramer fled in his black Dodge Neon, reports say. The officers at the scene issued an alert for other officers to be on the lookout for the car, and shortly another deputy spotted it headed back toward the suspect's mother's home.
The driver, however, refused to stop when the deputy tried to pull him over.
The officer radioed ahead for officers at the scene to be watchful for the car.
When the Neon approached the house, officers on the scene had their weapons drawn, and Kramer stopped and surrendered.
According to reports, Kramer was "combative and belligerent" when arrested and made death threats against Jackson while he was en route to the Blount County Justice Center.
Kramer's mother told officers her son suffers from a form of mental illness and has stopped taking his medication.
Among items reported damaged in the cruiser were the light bar costing $2,500, the in-car camera, $4,000 and the computer, $2,000.
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_5003700,00.html