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Martin tries to run from law in river
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A man who evaded capture for nine days before being caught trying to ford a river with lawmen in hot pursuit now claims he was beat up while in jail awaiting trial.The fugitive, Bradley Dewayne Martin, 32, appeared before General Sessions Judge Bill Locke wearing a neck brace, maintaining he was afraid to be held at Warren County Jail because he was beat up there by other inmates. Judge Locke ordered the names of the inmates who committed the alleged assault be given to the court with the possibility of criminal charges being taken if his allegations have merit.Martin, during his appearance before the court, waived his right to a preliminary hearing and was bound to the grand jury on charges of evading arrest, resisting arrest, possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, theft, possession of burglary tools, burglary, aggravated burglary, and initiating the process to manufacture meth.His issues began nine days before his river capture when he refused to pull over for lawmen on Old Rock Island Road. On that day, sheriff’s investigator Steven Carpenter said he got behind Martin’s Toyota but the fugitive accelerated.“He was traveling at an excessive speed endangering the lives of every person on the road as well as his own life,” Carpenter said in his reckless endangerment warrant.The car Martin was driving was found at his brother’s house at nearby Hennessee Bridge Road after he temporarily gave officers the slip.