Doug Ramsey, a former executive for Tyson Foods and later Beyond Meat, has entered pleas of not guilty for charges of terroristic threatening, battery and criminal mischief.
He has been scheduled for a trial on December 20, reported Fox16.
Ramsey was taken into custody on September 17, but he was released late the following morning after posting a bond of $11,085, according to documents from the Washington County (Arkansas) Sheriff’s Department.
The suspect apparently became angry after another man tried to edge his vehicle ahead of Ramsey’s in a parking garage outside of the University of Arkansas stadium in Fayetteville, according to earlier reports. The other man’s car apparently made contact with the wheel of Ramsey’s vehicle.
Authorities investigating the incident interviewed the two men and a witness, and it was determined that Ramsey had evidently got out of his vehicle and punched through the back windshield of the other person’s car. The driver of that car then got out of his vehicle and Ramsey apparently started punching the other man, and bit his nose.
The victim and the witness told an investigating officer that Ramsey threatened to kill the other man.
At the time of the alleged attack, Ramsey was employed as the chief operating officer of Beyond Meat, which on September 20 issued a press release stating that Ramsey had been suspended from his duties. Then, on October 14, Beyond Meat announced that he was no longer employed by the company.
Ramsey was hired by Beyond Meat in December 2021, following a lengthy career with Tyson Foods. Ramsey had worked his way up to being president of Tyson’s poultry operations. He was selected for that position in April 2017. He previously served as a senior vice president in Tyson’s poultry business unit, managing a portion of the business which included servicing key foodservice national accounts, retail fully cooked Tyson branded products and the school lunch program.
A graduate of Southern Arkansas University, Ramsey joined Tyson in 1992.
