A man who allegedly tried to use his pickup truck as a battering ram against a Roswell police car was in Fulton County jail Tuesday night, charged with aggravated assault and other offenses following the weekend incident.
The incident began shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday on Holcomb Bridge Road near Steeplechase Drive. Roswell police told Channel 2 Action News that officers attempted to pull over a truck without its headlights on, but its driver refused to stop.
"They tried a rolling road block, and as soon as they attempted to do that, the pickup truck accelerated and rammed the police car several times and forced him off the road, and both of the cars crashed,” Officer Lisa Holland told Channel 2.
The driver, Jimcobe Brand Brown of Stone Mountain, jumped out of his truck and ran, but police said they chased him to the parking lot of T.J.’s Sports Bar at 2880 Holcomb Bridge Road.
"They tackled him down to the ground, and while they were down on the ground, he kept trying to buck off the officer … who was trying to get him into custody,” Holland said.
One of the officers used his Taser X26 against the suspect.
“The guy immediately said, ‘OK, I give up,’ as soon as he got hit by it,” Holland said.
There was a slight odor of alcohol about the suspect as he was being taken into custody, police said. A Roswell Fire Department crew arrived and checked the man over, and he declined medical treatment and was taken to the Roswell Detention Center.
Later, in a jailhouse interview, police said Brown told them, "I didn't want to go to jail, I rammed a police car, I took off running, they zapped me. I was stupid and I deserved it."
Other charges lodged against Brown included fleeing or attempting to elude, hit and run and obstruction of a police officer, according to Fulton County jail records. Brown also was driving with a suspended license and was wanted on a warrant out of Douglas County, authorities said.
He remained in custody Tuesday night on bonds totaling $5,500, jail records showed.
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