An Ashland, Ky., man remains in critical condition at Cabell-Huntington Hospital in Huntington, W.Va., following a beating and robbery Sunday outside Illusions bar on Fourth Street in Ironton.

Meanwhile, the man charged in connection with the incident, Paul R. Blevins, 29, of Franklin Furnace, was arraigned Monday afternoon in Ironton Municipal Court.

Blevins faces an aggravated robbery charge in connection with that incident as well as charges of fleeing and eluding, grand theft and aggravated menacing in connection with other incidents before his eventual apprehension.

Judge O. Clark Collins set bail at $25,000. Blevins will return to court Thursday for a preliminary hearing. Derek Fisher was appointed his attorney.

Ironton police were summoned early Sunday morning to investigate a report of a man lying beaten in the bar's parking lot. At that time, authorities received a tip that a man and a woman were seen leaving the area in a small red car with temporary tags. Ironton police alerted other law enforcement agencies.

According to Lawrence County Sheriff's Office reports, deputies were called to a residence on County Road 25 in Pedro later Sunday morning in reference to a fight.

A resident there told deputies Blevins had come to his house and had threatened him and others people in his house and had threatened the man's property.

According to the reports, as deputies Carol Kitts and Rob Van Keuren approached the residence where the fight was supposed to have occurred, a car allegedly traveling at a high rate of speed came out of the victim's driveway and jumped a ditch just before it would have collided with Kitts'

cruiser. The vehicle was later recovered in a meadow near County Road 25. A female passenger found in the car was taken to the Ironton Police Department for questioning; Blevins allegedly fled on foot, pursued by authorities. At one point deputies got within speaking distance of Blevins, who then asked Van Keuren for the whereabouts of the woman in the car with him, whom he identified as his girlfriend.

According to a sheriff's office report, Blevins told Van Keuren he was

affected by the Xanax he had taken and that he got into a fight with the beating victim over his girlfriend. Blevins eluded authorities at that time but was later apprehended.

Blevins is also charged with taking a Pontiac Grand Am from a residence on County Road 27, Pedro, Sunday. When he was being booked at the Lawrence County Jail, Blevins allegedly informed corrections officers he drove the car to a church parking lot near Green High School in Scioto County, where he left it. The car was located by Scioto County Sheriff's deputies.

Blevins remains in the Lawrence County Jail.