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By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer
The trial of the 2007 alleged attack by Tony and Perry Ramey upon Dalton Christopher Brewer began Thursday in Whitley Circuit Court.
The case stems from an incident on June 13 of that year in which Tony Ramey and his son Perry allegedly injured Brewer at his Gilliam Street home in Corbin.
Essentially, testimony alleged that Perry Ramey earlier had sold one of his father’s pistols, a Glock 27 .40-cal. semi-automatic, for $300 without his father’s knowledge.
And that morning, the Rameys apparently decided to recapture the weapon.
Now-retired Corbin Police Detective Tim Helton, lead investigator in the incident, opened testimony.
Helton said early that morning, Tony Ramey called him at the police headquarters asking about retrieving a stolen weapon, and Helton told him to come to his office.
Helton testified that Tony Ramey has a background in law enforcement, as a U.S. Navy law enforcement petty officer and having been on the Corbin police department a few years. Helton said he was a Whitley deputy sheriff at the time of the incident, and was carrying a badge and identification card from the Whitley sheriff’s office.
Before Tony Ramey visited Helton, he was found at Brewer’s home.
At the end of the court day, Corbin Police Sgt. Glen Taylor testified that as he was heading home from appearing in another case, he heard the radio call that there was a problem at the Brewer home, and since he was nearest, headed that way.
When he arrived, he said, he saw the Rameys “leading a man out of the home” toward his cruiser. He said it appeared that the man had blood on him.
There was also a woman at the home, he said.
Tony Ramey reportedly told Taylor that Brewer was under arrest and showed Taylor some kind of identification card.
Helton and Taylor were the only two witnesses of the day.
Helton’s testimony related to evidence found after the incident. He said he arrived at the home about 30 minutes after the 911 call came in from Brewer’s then-live-in girlfriend.
He testified that there appeared to be blood on the front porch of the home and according to reports from Kentucky State Police forensics laboratory tests, DNA from the Rameys and Brewer was found on clothing taken from the three.
Documents in a lawsuit filed by Brewer in U.S. District Court allege that the Rameys attacked Brewer in an attempt to get the Glock 27 back. In those documents, Brewer alleges that Tony Ramey assaulted Brewer by striking him with the butt of a pistol.
On Thursday, Helton testified that it appeared there were three wounds on Brewer’s head following the incident, and blood on Brewer’s and Tony Ramey’s clothing.
In the glove box of Tony Ramey’s Jeep Cherokee, Helton said, was a loaded Glock 23 .40-cal. semi-automatic pistol, a larger version of the pistol Brewer allegedly bought from Perry Ramey.
After getting written permission to search the Gilliam Street home from his girlfriend who had reportedly drafted a bill of sale of the Glock 27, he found the loaded pistol under a sofa cushion in the home.
Helton said an examination of the weapons by the KSP lab revealed no fingerprints on either.
Under cross examination by Tony Ramey’s lawyer, Eric Ashley, Helton testified that Tony Ramey was cooperative after he was taken into custody.
Helton said Tony Ramey did not deny going to Brewer’s for the weapon.
The trial continues at 9 a.m. today.
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