Officials seek man who left hospital

HE WAS HURT IN CRASH AS DEPUTIES TRIED TO SERVE A WARRANT

Friday, September 29, 2006

By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer

Authorities continued searching for a Lenoir man who signed himself out of a Winston-Salem hospital Tuesday after he was injured in a Saturday crash while deputies tried to serve him with a warrant.

Jeremy David Greene, 30, was injured Saturday after Caldwell County sheriff's deputies approached him with a warrant charging him with misdemeanor larceny and failing to pay child support, said Capt. David Anderson.


The deputies confronted Greene on foot, Anderson said, and Greene then ran to his pickup truck and drove away. Within moments, he crashed into a Lexus SUV, which then struck a Sheriff's Office patrol car, Anderson said.
Greene, who suffered broken ribs and head injuries in the wreck, was taken to Caldwell Memorial Hospital before being airlifted to Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, Anderson said.

He was listed in critical condition but signed himself out of the hospital on Tuesday against the advice of hospital staff, Anderson said.

Anderson said hospital security and local police in Winston-Salem were told to notify the Sheriff's Office when Greene was released.

"Somehow, it slipped through the cracks," Anderson said.

Greene's sister, Anderson said, picked him up at the hospital and briefly took him to his parents' home in Lenoir before dropping him off in the city's Piney community.

Greene's family said they have not heard from him since Tuesday, Anderson said. Authorities worry that Greene is still critically injured and is not receiving medical treatment.


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