An Odessa man was arrested Sunday morning after a stranger told police he repeatedly tried to ram him in mid-town Odessa with his Ford Ranger.
According to an Odessa Police Department report, officers were dispatched to a disturbance on Englewood Circle around 9:30 a.m., but when they arrived they were told the parties had left.
Ultimately, a 43-year-old Odessa man said he was in front of Bonham Elementary School on East 21st Street when a man in a Ford Ranger drove directly at his Dodge Ram 1500, forcing him to drive on the curb to avoid being hit, the report stated.
A witness told officers they saw the driver of the Ranger try to hit the Ram again at East 17th Street and Crescent Drive, the report stated.
The driver of the Ram said when he got to East 8th Street and Dixie Boulevard, he had to go through a red light to avoid getting hit by the other guy and yet the man even went through the red light in order to follow him, the report stated.
According to the report, when officers found the driver of the Ranger, Valente Polvon, 50, he told them he’d been trying to “scare” the other man, but wouldn’t specify how.
Polvon was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He was released from the Ector County jail Monday after posting a $40,000 surety bond.
