A Metro Detroiter is jailed in northern Michigan after a police chase crossed the Mackinac Bridge into the Upper Peninsula.

The 27-year-old Northville man was arrested Monday afternoon after a wild ride that alleges a police chase, driving through the gate of a toll booth, and then an attempted carjacking of a vehicle with woman and her child fleeing with the man hanging onto the vehicle.

Shortly after 2 p.m. Monday, May 19, St. Ignace police officers were alerted to a northbound pursuit by Emmet County Sheriff’s deputies.

The Emmet County Sheriff’s Office reported that at 1:52 p.m. deputies had tried to pull over a vehicle for speeding just south of Pellston.

“The operator of the vehicle in question, however, failed to comply with the Deputies’ emergency lights and continued to travel without stopping,” the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook. “The pursuit persisted northwards, extending to the Mackinac Bridge, where the decision was made by Emmet County Sheriff Deputies to terminate the pursuit in the interest of safety.”

The bridge currently has a single lane open in each direction as work is being performed.

St. Ignace police reported that the suspect drove through the gate arm of a toll booth, just north of the bridge, driving northbound on I-75. Officers briefly lost site of the vehicle but quickly found it disabled near the Mackinac Straits Hospital. A Michigan State Police post is located near the toll booths, where a regular-sized car pays a $4 toll.

Police say the suspect, identified as Jack Maibach, 27, then tried to carjack another vehicle that was occupied by a woman and her child, but she “was able to drive away with the suspect clinging to the outside of her vehicle until he fell off.”

A St. Ignace officer and Michigan State Police trooper located Maibach in the parking lot of the Hampton Inn on State Street a short while later.

Police said he “violently resisted arrest” but was taken into custody with the help of a Mackinac County sheriff’s deputy and a Sault Tribal police officer.

He was being held in the Mackinac County Jail on three felony charges: fleeing and eluding, carjacking, and resisting police. Emmett County sheriff’s officials said charges are being considered in that county as well.

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