Twenty probationary troopers, all of whom just successfully completed field training, received the first of the agency’s new-look Durangos.
“But it’s still not every day that rush hour traffic is being blocked by four horses running down our main thoroughfare,” North Ridgeville Police Capt. Greg Petek
Officers followed the man as he fled on foot, instructing him to stop because he was being detained; the man pulled out a gun and pointed it at an occupied cruiser’s windshield
“We are extremely fortunate this suspect did not seriously injure or kill our officers, herself, her passenger or anyone else,” said Royal Oak Police Chief Michael Moore
Three people were arrested for their part in the plan to steal the SUV, which had more than 150 pounds of marijuana hidden inside
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