Mark Millican
Dalton Daily Citizen
DALTON — An armed robbery in north Dalton in mid-January led to two arrests in Massachusetts last week, authorities said.
Samantha Sanford, 25, of 52 Shope Ridge Road in Ringgold, was charged by the Dedham (Mass.) Police Department with being a fugitive from justice after being arrested at a hotel there. Ramon Walker, 37, of 1850 Washington St. in Boston, Mass., is also wanted by the Dalton Police Department for the armed robbery. When he was arrested with Sanford in Dedham, he had one warrant for cocaine trafficking and four warrants for breaking and entering into a building, all in Massachusetts.
On Jan. 15, a Hispanic man flagged down a Dalton police officer at the intersection of Hawthorne Street and Glenwood Avenue and told him he had been robbed at knifepoint, according to an incident report. A woman was with the man. The man told the officer he thought the woman “had something to do with the robbery.” He said the woman had called him four times, asking him if he wanted to “go party” and how much money he had.
“He advised me that she stated she would sleep with him if he would take her out tonight,” the officer said. “He advised her he had $700 and was on his way.”
The two met at Underwood Street and Meeting Street and were headed back to Hawthorne when the robbery occurred, the report said. A man held a knife to the man’s throat and demanded drugs, but when he said he didn’t have any, money was demanded. The alleged victim bit the man on a finger and then handed over some cash. The woman’s aunt said later that the woman and the man had gone out together after the woman received the alleged victim’s phone call, and that when they returned later in the evening the man had a wound on one of his hands.
Police spokesman Bruce Frazier said a hold for extradition was placed on Sanford last week, and a hold has also been put on Walker. He said he did not know when Sanford might arrive in Dalton.
“We may have to get in line for (Walker) because of the charges he faces up there,” Frazier said.
Sanford was in the Whitfield County Jail in 2007 on a probation violation, although the original charge was not mentioned, a jail spokesman said.
