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“Rodriguez is very well known to this agency,” said Acting Police Chief Jason Edmiston. “The Hermiston Police Department alone has arrested him 20 times and charged him with 43 different things ranging from assaults to drug charges.” Ramel Rodriguez, who they knew had felony warrants and was a suspect in an armed robbery, was spotted by officers. They tried to pull him over in Hermiston, Ore., but Rodriquez sped away, and was caught only after he went through a red light and smashed into another car. It was his 31st birthday. “We are very fortunate nobody was seriously injured based on the numerous poor decisions made by Mr. Rodriguez,” Edmiston said. “We have asked the Umatilla County Jail to remove Mr. Rodriguez out of the matrix system in hopes he will remain in jail.” (RC/Hermiston Herald) ...Will he choose the red pill, or the blue pill?
Original Publication Date: 19 February 2012
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.

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