2 police chases bring arrests
The simultaneous chases were among the most unusual police officers had ever experienced, Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer said after the teens were captured.
“I can’t recall when we had two carjackings in simultaneous pursuits going into two cities,” he said.
The suspects, ages 17 and 18, are expected to be charged in 37th District Court in Warren. Dwyer said detectives also are investigating whether they are connected to a string of carjackings in Harper Woods late Tuesday as well as an armed robbery in Madison Heights on Wednesday morning.
Warren police were initially called to investigate a carjacking at St. John’s Health Corporate Services Building on Dequindre just before 6 a.m. Wednesday after a woman said her 2005 Jeep Liberty had been carjacked.
Moments later, a 64-year-old woman reported that her 2008 Chrysler Town & Country was carjacked in the parking lot of CVS Pharmacy in the 25000 block of Ryan, also in Warren. Officers eventually spotted both stolen vehicles in Madison Heights and a chase ensued.
The 17-year-old driver of the Chrysler eventually drove down I-75. He was caught in Hamtramck at Caniff and Dyar. He had an Airsoft gun — commonly used in paintball — that was made to look like a semiautomatic handgun. Dwyer said officers fired six shots at the teen when he drove the vehicle at officers. He was not injured.
Moments later, Michigan State Police reported that they had found the stolen Jeep Liberty, also in Hamtramck, and made an arrest.
Later in the day, Warren police arrested a man in an unrelated attempted carjacking across the street from police headquarters.
“I guess we’re batting 1.000,” Dwyer said. “We’re starting to send a message that if you commit a crime in Warren, you’re likely to be arrested.”
Contact DAN CORTEZ at 586-826-7264 or dcortez@freepress.com.
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I’m sure that if anything it just increased their awareness.
That kid must have been powersliding the whole race to beat the cops like that! Probably got at least one star, too.
And today Royal Mounties in Quebec shut down a bot net est. at a million nodes.
Only to later find out they were on Dick Cheney’s payroll.
It was only because he got the golden mushroom and knew the part of the course where you can use a secret shortcut.
And now he’ll get it confiscated, too. Don’t you just love the law?
this, is how Schumachers are made
Haha, when I saw the name of the town I laughed- it’s nerdy of me but I happened to remember that Monchengladbach is where Nick Heidfeld and Heinz-Harald Frentzen (Formula 1 Drivers, both of them) were born:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoenchengladbachMaybe the teen escape driver needs more encouragement and we’ll see him taking the grid sometime… there’s definitely something in the water!
How is AIDS awareness in Africa ever going to grow if stuff like this happens?