RFP Staff
♦ Damon Antoine Cotton Jr., 23, of the 500 block of East Liberty Street in Salisbury, N.C, driving a 2001 Nissan Maxima on Saturday around 3 a.m. attempted to elude a state trooper in Salisbury after Cotton allegedly ran a stop sign on Old Concord Road and Monroe Street. Cotton was said to have sped up, zooming through an intersection at approximately 80 miles an hour before he lost the trooper at Clay and East Innes Street. During his alleged flight, Cotton struck a street sign and then piled onto 1997 Toyota Camry, a 2006 Toyota Camry, and a 2003 Jaguar parked along the road.
With the Salisbury Police now joined in the pursuit, Cotton and a passenger jumped out of the car and briefly fled on foot. Someone in the neighborhood alerted Salisbury Police officers that Cotton was standing at the intersection of Liberty and Clay Streets. When the Police located Cotton his shirt and hands were spattered with blood. The Nissan Maxima they were driving caught fire and were smoking.
Salisbury Police Cotton of the 500 block of East Liberty Street, with misdemeanor exceeding posted speed, misdemeanor hit and run property damage, felony fleeing to elude arrest, misdemeanor driving while license revoked, misdemeanor stop sign violation and misdemeanor expired inspection.
Cotton is currently being held at the Rowan County Detention Center in Salisbury under a $5,000 secured bond.
In 2011 Cotton was convicted in 2011 of driving while his license revoked on two separate occasions and misdemeanor motor vehicle violation.
Back in 2012 Cotton was convicted on three separate occasions of misdemeanor driving while license revoked, as well as a single conviction of misdemeanor resist, obstruct, delay an officer.
http://northcarolina.arrests.org/Arrests/Damon_Cotton_8946253/
