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College Student Arrested, Charged With Inducing Panic
POSTED: 5:22 pm EST December 3, 2007
UPDATED: 11:58 pm EST December 3, 2007
BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio -- [/b]The Ohio State Highway Patrol said they’ve arrested 23-year-old Justin Carman, a University of Cincinnati student, after a late-afternoon incident on Interstate 70 near the Belmont-Guernsey county line.
Carman is charged with inducing panic.
Troopers said a driver on I-70 reported seeing someone holding a gun to someone’s head in a passing car. After investigating, troopers said it was a toy gun.
Carman and 3 other University of Cincinnati students were on their way back from the Steelers/Bengals football game, when troopers said, Carman thought it would be funny to hold the gun to the driver's head, but they said something like this is no joke.
They said as they approached the situation, they didn't know what to expect.
"At that point, we didn't know what was going on; if it was a stolen vehicle, a kidnapping with a stolen vehicle, or if the vehicle was going to stop. If a pursuit had ensued, we had officers in place with stop sticks out before it got out of hand," said Ohio State Patrol Sgt. Jason Greenwood
Carman has posted bond and is out of the Belmont County Jail.
I have heard people say that this is the same thing that OCers could be charged with. I disagree and I think this story shows why. Holding a toy gun to someone's head is very different than carrying a holstered firearm. Sure, the anti-gun crowd still might "panic" because you have a gun, but a holstered firearm is not a threat. Seeing a car driving down the road with a gun to the driver's head is a whole different ballgame. I would call the police if I saw that.
College Student Arrested, Charged With Inducing Panic
POSTED: 5:22 pm EST December 3, 2007
UPDATED: 11:58 pm EST December 3, 2007
BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio -- [/b]The Ohio State Highway Patrol said they’ve arrested 23-year-old Justin Carman, a University of Cincinnati student, after a late-afternoon incident on Interstate 70 near the Belmont-Guernsey county line.
Carman is charged with inducing panic.
Troopers said a driver on I-70 reported seeing someone holding a gun to someone’s head in a passing car. After investigating, troopers said it was a toy gun.
Carman and 3 other University of Cincinnati students were on their way back from the Steelers/Bengals football game, when troopers said, Carman thought it would be funny to hold the gun to the driver's head, but they said something like this is no joke.
They said as they approached the situation, they didn't know what to expect.
"At that point, we didn't know what was going on; if it was a stolen vehicle, a kidnapping with a stolen vehicle, or if the vehicle was going to stop. If a pursuit had ensued, we had officers in place with stop sticks out before it got out of hand," said Ohio State Patrol Sgt. Jason Greenwood
Carman has posted bond and is out of the Belmont County Jail.
I have heard people say that this is the same thing that OCers could be charged with. I disagree and I think this story shows why. Holding a toy gun to someone's head is very different than carrying a holstered firearm. Sure, the anti-gun crowd still might "panic" because you have a gun, but a holstered firearm is not a threat. Seeing a car driving down the road with a gun to the driver's head is a whole different ballgame. I would call the police if I saw that.