By John Tunison
mlive.com
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Police have released video showing a chaotic Oct. 2 pursuit of four stolen vehicle and a river rescue of an involved juvenile.
Kent County Sheriff’s deputies received a report about 3 a.m. Oct. 2 of a vehicle stolen from a driveway.
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Deputies arrived in an Ada Township subdivision to find four vehicles, all later determined to be stolen, leaving the area.
Police pursued the vehicles.
A deputy then used a tire-deflation device, flattening tires on three of the four vehicles.
The drivers continued west on Fulton Street. One of the stolen vehicles was abandoned at Ada Cemetery, just off Fulton, while the others continued onto I-96, then I-196.
One vehicle was abandoned on I-196 near Fuller Avenue NE, while two others crashed in the U.S. 131 S-curve in Grand Rapids.
The drivers involved in the U.S. 131 crashes fled the area on foot. Officers quickly captured one of the drivers, while the other got into the Grand River in an attempt to evade police and tracking dogs.
He was rescued.
Both suspects were taken to the Kent County Juvenile Detention Center after receiving medical clearance, sheriff’s deputies said.
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