WYANDOTTE (WWJ) - An suspected seasoned criminal gave officers the runaround to avoid being taken into custody after he was allegedly caught stealing belongings out of car on Wednesday, Downriver cops said.
According to the Wyandotte Police Department, a Rouge River man was rummaging through a local woman's car on Quarry Road when the vehicle owner spotted the suspect going through her things.
The woman told police the man allegedly stole her iPhone, money and a pack of cigarettes from her car before taking off.
She discreetly followed the suspect in her car and was able to relay his exact location to police.
"When we arrested him, he had all of her stuff on him," Wyandotte PD said on social media. "This is where the antics began."
The department described the suspect as a "seasoned criminal" and someone well known to police — at the time of his arrest on Wednesday he had seven open warrants.
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Police allege the man began to act as if he was sick and told officers he had ingested a couple of grams of heroin. Police called an ambulance and took the suspect to a local hospital for treatment.
While en route, officials said the man attempted to strangle himself in the back of the ambulance by "wrapping the IV cord tightly around his neck and pulling on it, all the while screaming that he wanted to die."
The suspect spent most of the day at the hospital before finally telling police that he did not swallow any drugs and that he didn't want to die.
"He admitted that all of these tactics were to avoid us taking him to jail," police added.
The man was arrested and is pending charges -- his name and other information were not released by Wyandotte police.
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