Dearborn Heights police impounded a Cadillac CT5-V in late July after investigators say its driver blocked Warren Avenue and filled the intersection with tire smoke during a wedding celebration. Cell phone footage of the stunt, which also shows a white Rolls-Royce fishtailing through the same crowd, spread across social media within hours. Mayor Mo Baydoun says the department is still working to identify the other vehicles involved, and that the city intends to keep tracking down drivers who stop traffic to perform stunts that put other motorists at risk.
Online, the reaction has settled on one idea: that the Cadillac is gone for good, hauled away as punishment for someone else’s wedding getting out of hand. It’s a satisfying story.
It’s also probably not the ending, and it’s not even the most interesting part of what happened here. Dearborn Heights has run this exact play before, on a different car, at a different wedding. And Michigan lawmakers are, right now, trying to write a law because the one already on the books wasn’t built for what keeps happening on streets like Warren Avenue.
A Repeat Performance, Not a One-Off
This isn’t the department’s first wedding-adjacent tow job. In September 2024, Dearborn Heights police impounded a white Dodge sedan after guests leaving another wedding tore up a freshly paved parking lot with burnouts, tires screeching while passengers hung out the windows. Officers tracked the car by its plate and had it towed from directly outside the reception hall while guests watched…