Two men from Detroit are in jail after police say a case of shoplifting ended with an attempted murder charge.
A press release from the department says Ernest Powell and Deandre Tucker stole almost 380 dollars worth of cigarettes from the Shell Station on Peggy Flats road a little before 1 a.m. Thursday.
Someone from the gas station called police and said they were driving a blue Jeep Cherokee. Officers later found a similar car driving down I-75 and pulled it over at the southbound entrance ramp at Exit 77. Police say the driver refused to get out of the car, then put the car in reverse, peeled backwards and hit the officer with the open car door. The Jeep then took off down I-75.
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Police chased them down the interstate and saw someone throwing stolen cigarettes out the window.
The car turned around at Exit 62 in Mount Vernon and started going North back to Madison County. By this point several other agencies had joined the chase.
Police say the driver swerved at one of the cruisers and almost hit it.
The chase ended around Exit 76 when the driver lost control of the Jeep Cherokee and crashed. The three people in the SUV got out and ran into a wooded area, but were all found.
22-year-old Ernest Powell is the alleged driver and has been charged with attempted murder of a police officer, 2 counts of wanton endangerment with a police officer, fleeing and theft.
Deandre Tucker was charged with theft, fleeing and evading, and evidence tampering, while both Powell and Tucker are charged with unlawful transaction with a minor because the third person in the car was a minor.
The minor was not charged.
