LOCKPORT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A drunk driver was capable of slip free from her handcuff and steal a police cruiser in St. Joseph County early Monday morning.
The St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned deputies have been known as shorty after 3 a.m. for a report of single-car crash close to the intersection of Lutz and Hoshel roads in Lockport Township, south of Three Rivers.
The driving force was arrested for working whereas intoxicated. Whereas deputies searched the car, the suspect was capable of get out of the handcuff, crawl by means of the partition and drive away, based on an SJCSO information launch.
When driver reached the intersection of US-12 and Lutz Street, she struck a utility pole and several other bushes. The suspect was capable of run away from the crash scene however after a brief foot chase, she was taken into custody, the discharge mentioned.
The suspect, a 25-year-old Sturgis girl, was lodged on the St. Joseph County Jail for working whereas intoxicated, driving whereas license suspended, working with out insurance coverage, motorized vehicle theft, fleeing and eluding, resisting and obstructing, false identification to police and leaving the scene of a property harm accident.
