ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, November 7, 1996 TAG: 9611070064
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI STAFF WRITER
Two robbery suspects who led Roanoke police on a chase late Tuesday were arrested in Franklin County after officers forced their pickup truck off the road.
Roanoke police gave this account of what happened:
A clerk at the Hampton Inn at 3816 Franklin Road S.W. reported that two masked men entered the lobby at 11:53 p.m. One man displayed a handgun and demanded money. The clerk gave them an undisclosed amount, and the men fled in a blue pickup truck.
A Roanoke police officer saw a blue pickup leaving an apartment complex south of the motel. He stopped the vehicle, but it then fled, police said. Officers pursued the truck east on Virginia 116 and into Franklin County, where they forced it off to the side of the road.
Daniel Theodore Ragen II, 26, of Blue Ridge, and Sean Vincent DeAngelis, 19, with no known address, were charged with robbery.
Ragen also was charged with the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, reckless driving and eluding police. Franklin County sheriff's deputies charged Ragen with attempted malicious wounding after he rear-ended a deputy's car.
State Trooper D.E. Burnette, who investigated the accident, said Ragen intentionally rear-ended the deputy's car, then ran off the road and up an embankment, then came back onto the road and sideswiped the same deputy's car. The sideswipe might have been incidental, he said.
Ragen also was charged with some minor traffic infractions.
Ragen and DeAngelis were in the Roanoke City Jail on Wednesday. Ragen was being held without bond, and DeAngelis was unable to post his $15,000 bond.
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