A Michigan man accused of stealing from a closed garden center took off in a pickup truck and trailer after an officer told him he was under arrest, according to the Eastpointe Police Department. The escape quickly became messier when police say the trailer began falling apart and dumping landscaping tools across the roadway.
Officers responded to English Gardens on Kelly Road in Eastpointe at around 1:40 a.m. on September 25 after receiving a report of a suspicious man “prowling around” inside the closed business. A witness also told dispatchers that a landscaping truck and trailer were parked across the street.
Police arrived as the truck was leaving and conducted a traffic stop, finding the trailer loaded with items from English Gardens and without a license plate. Officers spoke with the lone driver, identified by authorities as 38-year-old Jeremy Johnson, before eventually telling him to get out of the truck because he was under arrest…