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Man in Smoking Car Rolls Up Window on Mich. Officer's Arm, Trapping Him

March 18, 2025

A Chelsea police officer needed to smash a car window to free a fellow officer, whose arm was trapped inside when the man rolled up the window and refused to get out of his smoking vehicle.

By Nathan Clark

Source mlive.com

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CHELSEA, MI – A welfare check on a car believed to be overheating or on fire ended in an arrest.

A Jackson man was taken into custody Thursday, March 13, after he rolled his window up on a responding officer’s arm, pinning it inside the vehicle.

Police were called at 6:06 p.m. Thursday, March 13, to the 1500 block of S. Main Street for a reported medical assist at the vehicle, parked in the area, according to the Chelsea Police Department.

Officers arrived to find the car smoking and approached to ask the driver to get out due to the apparent fire danger, police said.

A loose hypodermic needle was spotted inside the vehicle, and the driver was sitting on what appeared to be a knife. The driver refused to exit the smoking vehicle, police said.

After the driver, 40, of Jackson, ignored repeated requests to exit the car, an officer reached through an open window to unlock the door, police said.

Seeing the officer reach inside the vehicle, the driver rolled the window up, trapping the officer’s arm inside the car, police said.

Another officer on scene smashed the window, freeing the officer’s arm, then pulled the driver from the vehicle and arrested him, police said.

Officers searched the vehicle and found suspected narcotics, drug paraphernalia and a knife. The suspected narcotics were sent to the Michigan State Police Crime Lab for analysis, police said.

The case was sent to the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office for authorization of charges.

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