Chase covered parts of rural Oconee and Pickens
A chase from Oconee into Pickens covered 12 miles and reached speeds of 110 miles an hour Friday afternoon and resulted in the arrest of a Salem man, to face charges that he burglarized a home on Salem’s Sunrise Drive. David Ronald Ramey, 24, of Wander Road was jailed Saturday. Ramey is accused on January 21 of burglarizing a home and stealing a TV valued at $200 dollars. The scene of the crime was a home vacated by a woman who’s now in a rest home. According to law enforcement reports, sheriff’s officers from Oconee and Pickens counties pursued a Honda Accord to a rural Pickens County home and later were led to a second address where they found a man they recognized as David Ronald Ramey.