ISABELLA COUNTY, Mich. — Michigan authorities arrested two people Wednesday following a standoff in a Union Township motel that ended when one of the suspects crashed through a ceiling and into a swimming pool.
The 22-year-old Saginaw man, who eventually plunged to his capture, had barricaded himself in the motel room with a 28-year-old Shelby Township woman, The Morning Sun reported.
Isabella County Sheriff Michael Main told MLive.com that the man was a parole absconder with multiple felony warrants, including being wanted in connection to a string of recent vehicle thefts and multiple fleeing and eluding cases.
When authorities knocked on the motel room door around 2 a.m., Main said the pair barricaded the door from the inside before breaking through drywall to an adjacent room, climbing into the ceiling and entering a “mechanical area between the ceiling and a sub-ceiling,” the outlet reported.
Ultimately, the pair wound up in the motel’s attic space, where deputies located the woman tangled in the attic’s piping system, The Morning Sun reported.
The man, however, continued to elude authorities for several hours but was eventually cornered in an area above the facility’s swimming pool, into which he later fell and was arrested, MLive.com reported.
The woman has been charged with felony destruction of property and possession of methamphetamine, according to The Morning Sun.
It was not immediately clear what charges the man is facing.