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A Roseburg man suspected of shooting cars along Interstate 5 in Oregon from his UPS vehicle remained in jail Tuesday on $1 million bail.
Kenneth Ayers, 49, has pleaded not guilty to charges including attempted murder, assault and unlawful use of a weapon that were filed in Jackson County after his arrest last week, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.
The statement comes after Alamance County approved $1,311,070 in incentives to bring the company to Mebane last week.
UPS is considering expanding in Alamance County and bringing 450 jobs but now the debate over a Confederate monument in Graham has caught their attention.
The company released a statement siding with residents and activists who want to see the statue relocated.
According to the complaint, the UPS driver was making a delivery in the 1100 block of South Highland Avenue in Oak Park about 1:30 p.m. Friday when he heard a man approach him from behind and say several times, “Get on the ground, stay down.”
As the driver was lying facedown on the ground, he looked up and saw several men, one of whom had a handgun, according to the charges. The other men went through the truck and removed packages before speeding off in a light-colored vehicle.
Operation Warp Speed – the White House-led partnership for COVID-19 answers – is pushing its partners to be ready to distribute a coronavirus vaccine by Nov. 1.
The date is the first concrete goal set for companies working with Operation Warp Speed to deliver vaccines to doctors and hospitals, said Wes Wheeler of the delivery giant United Parcel Service.
Wheeler said UPS and other partners will conduct test delivery runs in September. “We’ll be ready. We have to be ready,” he said. “The world is watching. We can’t fail.”
A Hudson police officer jumped into the back of a UPS truck Friday morning to stop it after the truck’s driver suffered a suspected drug overdose while driving in the city, Hudson Police Chief L. Edward Moore said.
Hudson police responded at about 9:44 a.m. Friday to a report that a UPS truck had struck a vehicle and the victim thought the driver was intoxicated, or that something was wrong with him. Two police vehicles and the bicycle patrol rushed to the area and located the truck at the corner of North 2nd and Columbia streets, Moore said.
The UPS driver, 36-year-old Johnathan L. Miller of Tannersville, remained in Columbia Memorial Health’s intensive care unit Friday after Hudson Police Officer Randy Strattman jumped into the moving truck at north Second and Columbia streets, turned off the ignition to stop the vehicle and then administered two doses of Narcan to Miller, Moore added.