Feb 5, 2021
IRON MOUNTAIN A 28-year-old man was arrested Wednesday morning after a high-speed chase that began in Florence, Wis., and ended with the driver barricaded in an Iron Mountain residence.
The Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office was notified about 10:38 p.m. Tuesday that the Florence County sheriff’s deputies was pursuing a 2002 Jeep Liberty headed for the Michigan-Wisconsin border, according to a news release from the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office.
Iron Mountain deputies deployed stop sticks at the state line on U.S. 2 near the M-95 junction. The Jeep ran over the stop sticks and hit a patrol vehicle, damaging it enough it had to be towed, the release stated.
Feb 4, 2021
IRON MOUNTAIN A 28-year-old man was arrested Wednesday morning after a high-speed chase that began in Florence, Wis., and ended with the driver barricaded in an Iron Mountain residence.
The Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office was notified about 10:38 p.m. Tuesday that the Florence County sheriff’s deputies was pursuing a 2002 Jeep Liberty headed for the Michigan-Wisconsin border, according to a news release from the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office.
Iron Mountain deputies deployed stop sticks at the state line on U.S. 2 near the M-95 junction. The Jeep ran over the stop sticks and hit a patrol vehicle, damaging it enough it had to be towed, the release stated.
IRON MOUNTAIN, MI A man who led police on a chase across the Wisconsin/Michigan border is in the Dickinson County Jail.
Tuesday around 10:38 p.m. Florence County Sheriff’s deputies alerted the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office they were pursuing a suspect on US-2 and he was headed to the border. Michigan officers deployed “stop sticks” on the highway near the M-95 junction. The suspect vehicle ran over the sticks and struck a patrol vehicle.
Dickinson County deputies took over pursuit of the vehicle, which slowly made its way into Iron Mountain on two tires. The suspect stopped at a residence on 5th Street and barricaded himself inside. He told police he had a child hostage and would kill the child if his demands weren’t met.