Sheriff and State Police K-9 Units are parked in front of the semi-trailers where Dean Davis was found hiding

MONTICELLO – The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office has charged a 40-year-old Salisbury Mills man after he repeatedly rammed his ex-girlfriend’s car.

Deputies were called Thursday morning to a violent domestic dispute/motor vehicle accident near the Center for Discovery on Kinnebrook Road in the Town of Thompson. Deputies found that Dean Davis had been waiting for his estranged girlfriend when she arrived at work. He repeatedly rammed her car until it became disabled. When she got out of the vehicle, Davis attempted to run her over. His vehicle mounted a curb and got stuck on a rock wall.

The victim, who had accidentally locked her seven-month-old child in the car, got a ride from a co-worker to the Center for Discovery Security office and called 911.

Davis fled into the woods. Sheriff’s deputies, who arrived at the scene, discovered a machete, a bayonet, and a bow with broad head arrows in the back seat of Davis’s car. The deputies removed the child, unharmed, from the victim’s car and directed the Center for Discovery Security to initiate a lock down of the facility.

The Sheriff’s Office then called in the State Police and Monticello Police to assist. A State Police helicopter circled overhead as Sheriff and State Police K-9 units searched the woods.

At approximately 12:30pm, Deputy Kevin Rogers, who was posted near an old scrap metal plant just off of Ben Moishe Road, checked the back of an abandoned semi-trailer and found Davis hiding inside.

Davis surrendered without incident. He was charged with two counts of Reckless Endangerment first degree, a felony; two counts of Criminal Mischief second degree, a felony; and one count of Endangering the Welfare of a Minor, a misdeameanor.

Davis was also charged with Criminal Contempt in the second Degree for violating an order of protection issued by the village court in Ellenville where the victim lives. He was also given two tickets for Reckless Driving and Leaving the Scene of an Accident.

Davis was arraigned before Judge Harold Madison in the Town of Rockland and sent to the Sullivan County Jail without bail.