MONROE COUNTY, Michigan — A police chase that began in Ohio crossed Interstate 75 into Michigan on Saturday afternoon, November 7, was called off because a Veterans Day parade lay in its path, and then ended a second time — on a spike strip, after a one-mile pursuit, with a K-9 and a sheriff's drone helping capture the two people who ran from the car, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.

Source: MLive, via Officer.com, Nov. 9, 2026

Monroe County Central Dispatch received a call at 3 p.m. on November 7 from Lucas County Central Dispatch in Ohio, reporting that Toledo Police and Washington Township Police were pursuing a retail fraud suspect on northbound I-75 and had just crossed into Michigan, the sheriff's office said.

The first pursuit — and the parade that stopped it

Deputy Tanner Goss intercepted the fleeing vehicle, a red Chevrolet Trailblazer, and pursued it off I-75 and into Erie Township, according to the sheriff's office. The pursuit continued through Monroe County but was soon terminated, police said, because a Veterans Day parade was taking place ahead, within the City of Monroe.

Calling off a pursuit in front of a parade crowd is the kind of decision pursuit policies are written for: the allegation at the start of this chase was retail fraud — a property crime reported in Ohio — and deputies chose not to carry a high-speed chase toward streets filled with parade-goers, marching bands and families.

The second pursuit: a spike strip laid in advance

The chase did not end there. Deputies converged on the registered owner of the Trailblazer's address in Monroe Township and spotted the vehicle driving in the area. Anticipating that there would be a second pursuit, deputies laid a spike strip across the roadway — and the vehicle struck it as the driver fled once again, the sheriff's office said.

The second pursuit lasted for a mile before the vehicle became disabled. Both occupants then fled on foot: the driver, a 42-year-old Monroe woman, and her passenger, a 35-year-old man from Berlin Township. They were captured soon after, with the assistance of a K-9 handler from the Monroe Public Safety Department and Sheriff's Detective Dominic Flint, who was operating one of the sheriff's office's aerial drones. The Luna Pier Police Department also assisted with the pursuit and the apprehension.

Toledo's WTVG reported the same arrests on November 8: a man and a woman who fled police through multiple counties and were arrested on November 7, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.

Source: WTVG (Toledo), Nov. 8, 2026

The charges, and the corridor where it happened

The pair are facing charges of fleeing and eluding and resisting arrest in Michigan, as well as criminal charges in Ohio, the sheriff's office said. Their names were not given in the reports — only their ages, sexes and home communities — and the Michigan charges are allegations that will be tested in court.

I-75 between Toledo and Detroit is one of the busiest freight and travel corridors in the Great Lakes region, carrying heavy truck traffic past Monroe every day — the same interstate Punjabi truckers from Michigan and Ohio drive on cross-border and Midwest runs. A chase that starts as an Ohio retail-fraud pursuit can, within minutes, become a Michigan multi-agency operation on that corridor, which is exactly what the dispatch call at 3 p.m. set in motion.

What happens next

The two now face the Michigan fleeing-and-eluding and resisting-arrest process in Monroe County, alongside the separate criminal charges waiting in Ohio, where the pursuit began with the Toledo and Washington Township officers. No injuries were reported in the sheriff's account of either pursuit, and no court dates were given in the reporting so far.