Plant-based meals maker Past Meat stated Tuesday it has suspended its chief working officer after he was accused of a violent road-rage confrontation on the College of Arkansas.
The California-based firm stated in a press release that COO Doug Ramsey, 53, was suspended efficient instantly; a senior vp will assume his duties on short-term foundation.
Ramsey allegedly punched a motorist and bit his nostril so forcefully that it ripped his flesh, in accordance with a preliminary police report obtained by NBC affiliate KNWA of Fayetteville. That account was primarily based on observations and enter from the arresting officer, witnesses and the sufferer, the report indicated.
Ramsey did not reply to a request for remark despatched in care of Past Meat’s public relations representatives.
Almost $12,000 bond was posted to safe Ramsey’s launch Sunday, in accordance with inmate data posted by the Washington County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Ramsey was booked late Saturday primarily based on allegations of third-degree battery and making terrorist threats, in accordance with the sheriff’s workplace.
The arresting officer stated within the report that Ramsey had accused the sufferer of inflicting his automobile to make contact with the entrance passenger-side tire of Ramsey’s SUV because the sufferer’s automobile inched right into a line of automobiles exiting a parking storage at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville.
The College of Arkansas soccer group had simply defeated Missouri State College 38-27.
Ramsey is alleged to have punched by way of the rear window of the sufferer’s automobile, described as a Subaru, after which pulled the person nearer to him earlier than he punched and bit him, in accordance with the report.
“Mr. Ramsey additionally bit the proprietor’s nostril, ripping the flesh on the tip of the nostril,” the officer wrote. “The proprietor and the witness additionally heard Mr. Ramsey threaten to kill the proprietor of the Subaru.”
Bystanders separated the boys, the report stated, and Ramsey was arrested. It wasn’t clear whether or not the sufferer wanted hospitalization.
Ramsey was introduced as Past Meat’s new chief working officer in early December. He had spent practically 30 years on the nation’s high meat producer, Tyson Meals, which is predicated in Springdale, a metropolis adjoining to Fayetteville.
In response to his bio at Tyson, he labored within the poultry enterprise by way of most of his time on the firm. He additionally briefly headed Tyson’s enterprise dealings with McDonald’s.
A Dec. 8 Securities and Change Fee submitting asserting Ramsey’s hiring says $450,000 in “sign-on” bonus money must be repaid if he and the corporate half methods earlier than his first anniversary. A further $275,000 in sign-on bonus money can be out there in his second 12 months at Past Meat, it states. His annual wage, $475,000, might be doubled with performance-based bonuses, in accordance with the submitting.
Past Meat, which says the idea of on a regular basis however impactful “optimistic decisions” is core to its mission, is predicated in El Segundo, close to Los Angeles Worldwide Airport.
It isn’t clear whether or not Ramsey moved to Los Angeles or works remotely from Arkansas. The police report stated he’s a resident of Fayetteville.
TJ Swigart and Gemma DiCasimirro contributed.
