NOBLE TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) – Two persons were arrested Saturday following a chase on numerous Noble Township secondary roads and bean fields before it ended in a dense wooded area.
Branch County Sheriff’s Department K-9 Chaos captured the driver after the long chase.
Branch County Sheriff’s Department Undersheriff Keith Eichler said in a news release that deputies attempted to stop a vehicle on Dutch School Road near Sielkens Road but the Black Acura accelerated and would not stop for the pursuing Deputy.
The pursuit hit speeds of up to 110 miles-per-hour. After 13 miles, the vehicle turned south on Hurley Road at high rate of speed.
Hurley Road dead ends into bean fields. The Acura fled through the beans fields, then tried to flee through a dense wooded area before crashing into a tree.
A 48-year-old man from Bronson and 28-year-old woman from South Bend, Indiana then fled on foot.
The woman was found an hour later by Deputies. Eichler says she confirmed the driver’s I.D.. Deputies suspected the man had numerous warrants.
Branch County Sheriff K-9 Chaos tracked and apprehended the driver who was wanted on several felony warrants in Michigan and Indiana.
Eichler says since the suspects were apprehended just across the state line in Indiana, they were lodged in the LaGrange County Jail.
Branch County Sheriff Deputies are requesting felony chargers of fleeing and eluding, malicious destruction of farmed crops and being an habitual offender.
Branch County Sheriff Deputies were assisted by the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Department, the Hillsdale County Sheriff K-9, Lagrange County Sheriffs Deputies and K-9s and the Indiana State Police.
(Photo courtesy Branch County Sheriff’s Department)
Comments