ALLEN PARK (WWJ) Michigan State Police have taken a man into custody accused of stealing and crashing a car after allegedly taking dozens of Xanax.
State Police say they received a report of a crash around 2:30 p.m. Saturday at I-94 and M-39. Upon arriving, they found the hit-and-run suspect had run away.
Around the same time, dispatch received calls of the man running along the railroad tracks. The suspect ran north on Van Born.
Police set up a perimeter and called a Lincoln Park K9 to the scene to start tracking as soon as they spotted the suspect.
The suspect hopped into a parked car on a side street, State Police said. After the suspect disobeyed multiple commands to get out of the car, troopers deployed a taser.
The trooper was able to get him out of the vehicle and handcuff him.
“He sustained a small cut around his eyebrow,” a statement from State Police said.
The suspect told troopers he was a parole absconder who had just swallowed 80 Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug. Drugs.com said the maximum dose of Xanax is 10 mg per day, although usually no higher than 4 mg per day is prescribed by doctors. They can come in pills as low as .25 mg. Therefore, if he did in fact take 80 Xanax, we would have taken at least 20 mg, or twice the maximum dose.
Doctors urge you to remember that you should always take medications as prescribed, and failing to do so is dangerous. Xanax can have a severe or fatal interaction with alcohol, sedatives, some heartburn drugs, some antidepressants, muscle relaxants, antifungal drugs and opioids.
Learn more about the symptoms of Xanax overdose and what to do if it happens here.
An investigation revealed the car he had crashed was stolen. No information has been released about the conditions of the people in the other vehicle involved in the crash.
He was taken to the hospital after telling troopers how many pills he had swallowed. Prosecutors are expected to bring charges
shortly.