TEEN’S COMMENTS AT ISSUE IN MIAMISBURG ROBBERY
His attorney wants evidence blocked in armed-robbery case.
The attorney for a Dayton teen shot by police after a Miamisburg armed robbery wants to block some evidence from being used against his client.
Charles Vincent Ashford was in court Wednesday morning when defense counsel Jeffrey Gramza told a judge he wants to suppress statements made by his client after Ashford’s Feb. 5 arrest. The arrest followed a chaotic scene near I-75 that drew multiple law enforcement agencies, including the off-duty Miami Twp. officer who wounded him.
Gramza did not specify during Ashford’s minute-long appearance before Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Barbara Gorman which statements he will target, and he declined to elaborate afterward.
“We’ll go forward on the suppression motion, (which) may indeed result in dismissed charges, if it goes our way,” Gramza said.
Gorman continued the case against the 18-year-old Ashford until Sept. 26, when Gramza said the motion to suppress is likely to be discussed.
Not-guilty pleas have been entered for Ashford on 10 counts, which range from discharging a firearm over a public roadway, impersonating a peace officer and several armed robbery charges. The vast majority of counts in his July 20 indictment include firearm specifications.
“We’re going to fight the case as we normally would,” Gramza said. “That would be based on the evidence that they have and the evidence that we have.”