US EditionDriver leads chase to Mackinac Bridge, smashes through gate before arrest
- On May 19, 2025, 27-year-old Jack Maibach from Northville was involved in a high-speed pursuit by law enforcement that began near Pellston and continued across the Mackinac Bridge.
- The pursuit began after deputies tried to stop Maibach’s speeding vehicle, which he failed to comply with, prompting a chase across I-75 toward St. Ignace.
- Maibach smashed through a toll gate north of the bridge, continued northbound in the southbound lane, and his vehicle eventually disabled near Mackinac Straits Hospital.
- After his car stalled, Maibach tried to forcibly take over a car driven by a woman who had her child inside, but she managed to escape while he hung onto the outside until he fell off.
- Maibach was taken into custody at the Hampton Inn in St. Ignace after a police pursuit and was charged with multiple felonies, including attempted car theft, evading law enforcement, and interfering with officers; during his arrest, he resisted forcefully.
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Man clings to moving car in attempted carjacking after police chase across Mackinac Bridge
A Northville man is facing charges after leading police on a chase across the Mackinac Bridge and attempting to carjack a vehicle occupied by a woman and her child, police said.
Detorit Area Man Arrested After Wild Chase, Attempted Carjacking: Police
Detroit Area Man Leads Police Chase Over Mackinac Bridge: Cops - Detroit, MI - Police said the driver smashed through the bridge's toll gate before his car eventually broke down and he tried carjacking a woman.
Police share details about Mackinac Bridge chase, arrest
ST. IGNACE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Police are sharing details about a chase over the Mackinac Bridge and a carjacking Monday. The Emmet County Sheriff’s Office says 27-year-old Jack Maibach of Northville was being chased starting in Pellston and crashed through a toll booth gate on the bridge, going north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 75. Police lost sight of the vehicle until he reached St. Ignace in the Upper Peninsula and say he “violently…
The Morning Sun
Detroit-area man arrested after police chase over Mackinac Bridge
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. File photo. (Stephen Frye / MediaNews Group) Shortly afte…
Carjacker clings to moving vehicle after high-speed chase across Mackinac Bridge
Mackinac Bridge | Laurent Fady via iStockIt was the middle of the day in Mackinac City, Michigan, on Monday, May 19. What would have been a very Great Lakes-ish afternoon—a chilly but pretty view of the freshwater behemoth—was filled with a sudden rush of activity at the state’s interior border. The Emmet County Sheriff’s Office chased a driver right up to the Mackinac Bridge. Deputies pursued the 27-year-old driver after he fled a speed-related…
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