PAW PAW, Mich. (WOOD) — A wished suspect led deputies on a chase via Paw Paw, which ended when the sheriff blocked the suspect’s automobile.
Round 1 p.m. Wednesday, deputies with the Van Buren County Sheriff’s Workplace pulled a purple Chevy pickup truck over on Gremps Avenue close to Industrial Avenue as a result of they noticed the motive force was a wished suspect.
Dashboard and physique digicam video launched Thursday by the sheriff’s workplace reveals the motive force, who deputies recognized as 60-year-old Jeffrey Henry, refusing to get out of the automobile when a deputy requested him to.
“You can’t stop me right now,” Henry mentioned.
“Why’s that?” the deputy requested.
“‘Cause I’m turning myself in before 2 o’clock and I gotta go to Walmart, the gas station, get the truck back home…” Henry replied.
He refused to roll his window down or discuss to the deputy in regards to the scenario, as a substitute making an attempt to make a telephone name. He threatened to wreck the deputy’s automobile and mentioned he wouldn’t cooperate, as a substitute saying he would drive away, the video reveals.
“Jeff, if you leave, you’re going to be committing a flee and elude,” the deputy mentioned. “Put the car in park.”
As an alternative, Henry put the automobile in drive and rolls off. The deputy reached out and appeared to stab the again left tire with a knife. Later in the course of the chase, that tire might be seen deflating and finally going flat.
Henry led the deputies all via city, the video reveals, dodging round visitors on what the sheriff’s workplace known as a “slow speed pursuit” via Paw Paw. Deputies mentioned he was headed towards his residence. Over seven minutes into the chase, Sheriff Daniel Abbott pulled in entrance of Henry’s automobile on a dust street, inflicting him to cease and ending the chase. Henry was arrested.
Henry was out on bond for separate fees that the sheriff’s workplace didn’t title. He was booked into the Van Buren County Jail on a number of fees, together with fleeing and eluding and excellent warrants, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
