A 24-year-old man is accused of road-raging against multiple people while “DoorDashing” around Cheyenne on Monday evening
He faces charges for a series of incidents involving alleged threats, a fight with a stranger, and threatening people with a loaded 9 mm handgun.
William R. Ingleby is charged with aggravated assault and battery, threatening with a weapon, possession of a weapon with intent, simple battery, reckless driving, and interference with a peace officer (resisting).
His girlfriend told police they had been “DoorDashing,” or delivering food orders through the DoorDash app, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed in Ingleby’s case.
A Cheyenne police officer was dispatched to a reported road rage incident at 7:01 p.m. Monday at Central Avenue and Yellowstone Road, the affidavit says.
While talking to the person making the complaint, 911 received other other calls involving the same vehicle, a red 1995 GMC Yukon with a Montana license plate.
The complainant at Central Avenue told the officer that a red sport utility vehicle cut him off in traffic and swerved into his lane.
He said the driver, later identified as Ingleby, yelled “f*** you” out the window and pointed a black handgun over his shoulder at him.
“(The driver) told me that Ingleby pointed at his eyes then at the caller in an ‘I’m watching you,’ fashion,” the officer wrote in the affidavit.
A String Of Calls
Dispatch received a hang-up call at 6:55 related to the same vehicle in the 1800 block of Central Avenue, reporting it was headed eastbound on Lincolnway and swerving and going in and out of traffic.
The caller said the driver “acted like he was going to shoot them,” the affidavit says.
Also at 6:55 p.m., another caller reported a vehicle with Montana registration speeding, tailgating vehicles, and last seen southbound on Central Avenue toward North Greeley Highway.
The affidavit states that at 7:19 p.m., a 42-year-old woman called to report that a vehicle being driven by a while male with dirty blond hair wearing a dark shirt almost sideswiped her vehicle while northbound on College Drive.
She described it as an older red Chevy Blazer.
At 7:26 p.m., a 51-year-old man called dispatch to report that there had been a “physical disturbance” in the 2700 block of Deming Boulevard.
When an officer arrived, the man said he and his 17-year-old son had a red SUV follow them home from East Lincolnway at Converse Avenue.
“When they arrived at their residence, Ingleby, who was not known to (the son or father), jumped out of the vehicle and started to physically fight (the son) on the ground,” the affidavit states. “(The father) broke the altercation apart and Ingleby said, ‘I’m going to kill you,’ and displayed a firearm in a holster.”
Ingleby then got into the vehicle and left, the affidavit states. The son had injuries from taking Ingleby to the ground.
At 7:29 p.m., another Cheyenne officer spotted Ingleby's vehicle at Atkins Street and McCann Avenue.
Two officers approached the vehicle and Ingleby got out while his girlfriend remained in the passenger seat.
The affidavit states Ingleby had bloodshot watery eyes, and the smell of alcohol was on his breath. As officers tried to put handcuffs on him, he resisted.
After being put into the vehicle, he refused to put his feet into the car, and when taken out and put on the ground, he tried to fight with officers and had to restrained, the affidavit states.
Officers found a loaded black and silver Smith & Wesson 9 mm handgun in the Yukon that the affidavit states the 24-year-old girlfriend claimed belonged to her. The vehicle was also registered to her.
“She stated she was with Ingleby all night and claimed the two were out DoorDashing all around town,” the affidavit states.
DoorDash Incidents
When contacted, a woman at DoorDash said that without an order number or DoorDasher account number, the company could not comment or confirm anything about whether the pair was actually working for the company.
She said the company would only talk about any alleged incidents with police.
DoorDash has made news recently with a delivery driver allegedly spraying an Arby’s order with pepper spray in Vanderburgh County, Indiana, before driving off, causing a customer to get sick.
A female DoorDash driver in Oswego, New York, was arrested for allegedly taking video of a half-naked, passed-out customer slumped on a couch and then claiming to be the victim of sexual assault by the customer.
The aggravated assault and battery charge against Ingleby carries a potential punishment of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, while the possession of a weapon with intent charge carries a potential penalty of up to five years in prison and a $1,000 fine.
Both the battery and the reckless driving charges are punishable by up to six months in jail and $750 fine, and the interference with a peace officer charge carries the potential for one year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Dale Killingbeck can be reached at dale@cowboystatedaily.com.
