Police arrest kidnapping suspect on freeway in Detroit

Police on Saturday arrested a man whom they suspect was involved in a kidnapping in Metro Detroit earlier that day.

According to Michigan State Police, the Detroit Regional Communication Center received a call from Detroit police that they were chasing a man on the northbound Interstate 75 ramp to the Lodge Freeway (M-10). MSP says troopers arrived at the scene and learned that the 36-year-old man from Detroit was a suspect in an alleged kidnapping/strangulation that happened in Canton Township and appeared suicidal.

Police believed the man had a knife and attempted to calm him down. When the man “continued to show signs of aggression,” police used a Taser and took the man into custody, according to MSP. The man was taken to a hospital for mental health care. Canton police later took custody of the man…

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