Man Later Seen Running With Chair
By Susan L. Oppat, Ann Arbor News
State Police said they were looking for a man who escaped from custody at the Ypsilanti post Monday afternoon while he was still handcuffed to a chair.
Sgt. James Bundshuh said this morning that the escapee was one of two men that Wayne city police arrested Monday afternoon, then turned over to Ypsilanti troopers for questioning about an Augusta Township break-in.
Bundshuh said one of the suspects was placed in the small post’s only holding cell, and troopers put the other man, Nathan Daniel Gubachy, in an interview room in the middle of the post. Bundshuh said a trooper left the room unlocked when he went to question the other suspect.
Gubachy crossed a small hallway, walked into an open detective’s office, pushed open a crank-window, kicked out a screen and fled, still attached to the chair, Bundshuh said.
The sergeant said he does not know how long Gubachy was gone before troopers discovered he was missing at about 4 p.m.
A woman, who lives near the south end of Ford Lake, about 1.5-2 miles from the post, told police she saw the man running through back yards in the area, still attached to the chair.
No one, according to Bundshuh, has seen the man since.
Troopers say Gubachy is 32, white, 5-foot-9, with blue eyes.